Knot Today Inc
Indianapolis, IN · EIN 84-2826685. Reported 65 grants totalling $1,198,655 to 43 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Knot Today Inc, the IRS classifies it under crime & legal rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE I73) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 43 distinct organizations, with 13% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 50% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $9,219 and $25,000; the smallest was $3,000 and the largest $60,822. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
1 of those grants was non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $11,000 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Hendricks County Child Advocacy Center Inc | Avon, IN | $155,027 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Allies Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina | Morrisville, NC | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fair Haven Inc | Highland, IN | $65,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Fishers Police Foundation | Fishers, IN | $53,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Julie Valentine Center | Greenville, SC | $49,327 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Casie Center Inc | South Bend, IN | $47,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Family Service of Bartholomew County Inc | Columbus, IN | $42,775 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| North Carolina State Bureau of Inve | Raleigh, NC | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Indiana University Foundation | Bloomington, IN | $37,517 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Childrens Justice and Advocacy Center | Richmond, IN | $37,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Indiana Center for Prevention of Youth Abuse and Suicide | Carmel, IN | $37,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Indy Public Safety Foundation Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dickerson Childrens Advocacy Center Inc | Lexington, SC | $31,800 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Childrens Advocacy Center of Southeastern Indiana Incorporated | Dillsboro, IN | $31,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hollys House Inc | Evansville, IN | $30,528 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault Inc | Raleigh, NC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Assist Indiana Inc | Franklin, IN | $29,980 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Dunebrook Inc | Michigan City, IN | $25,700 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Purdue University Mesa | West Lafayette, IN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dragonfly House Childrens Advocacy Center | Mocksville, NC | $22,350 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Childfund International USA | Richmond, VA | $21,510 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ascent 121 Inc | Carmel, IN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Childrens Advcy Ctr of Spartanburg Cherokee and Union Counties Inc | Spartanburg, SC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Childrens Advocacy Center of Charlotte Inc | Charlotte, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mama Bear Effect Inc | Burlington, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Film Collaborative Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Crisis Connection Inc | Jasper, IN | $11,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Child Advocacy Center of Allen County Indiana Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Village of Mount Pleasant | Racine, WI | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Heartford House Inc | Lafayette, IN | $10,442 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Childrens Advocacy Center of Rando | Union City, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Iris Family Support Center Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hollys House Inc | Evansville, IN | $9,984 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Advocates for Children and Families Inc | Carmel, IN | $9,942 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Child and Parent Services Inc | Elkhart, IN | $9,219 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hancock County Child Advocacy Center Inc | Greenfield, IN | $8,631 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kay Phillips Child Advocacy Center | Summerville, SC | $7,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lincoln County Coalition Against Child Abuse Inc | Lincolnton, NC | $5,223 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Open Door Youth Services Inc | New Albany, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Social Health Association of Indiana Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southern Indiana Regional Alliance to Prevent Exploitation Inc | Corydon, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Monique Burr Foundation for Children Inc | Jacksonville, FL | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
15 of 43 (35%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Indy Public Safety Found
ICAC Mobile forensic unit - Fair Haven Inc
prevention education staff - Family Service of Bartholomew Cty
prevention education & teacher training - Fishers Police Foundation
fund tech for data collect - Village of Mount Pleasant
child exploitation detection - In Ctr for Prev of Youth Abuse
10000 guidebooks for prev ed
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 of 43 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 | $93,000 | $24,000 |
| 2022 | 16 | $323,597 | $17,875 |
| 2023 | 19 | $365,661 | $19,500 |
| 2024 | 26 | $416,397 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
71% of its giving went to organizations in Indiana. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Indiana.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Knot Today Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 26 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 147 Washington Pointe Dr, Indianapolis, IN, 46229.
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