John S and James L Knight Foundation Inc
Historical FunderMiami, Florida · EIN 65-0464177 · Private foundation · Website
Grants paid (2024)$147.7M
Organizations funded513
Typical grant$85,300
Total assets$2.5B
Half of its grants to organizations were between $18,492 and $375,000.
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How to apply
The foundation filed the following application information (Form 990-PF Part XV, tax year 2024):
| Contact | WEBSITE WWWKFORG |
|---|---|
| Address | 2850 TIGERTAIL AVENUE STE 600, MIAMI FL 33131 |
| Phone | 3059082600 |
| Form and materials | THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, KNIGHT FOUNDATION ISSUES OPEN CHALLENGES OR CALLS FOR PROPOSALS FOCUSED ON SPECIFIC FUNDING PRIORITIES. YOU CAN RECEIVE UPDATES AND NOTIFICATIONS ABOUT UPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES BY GOING TO OUR WEBSITE, WWW.KF.ORG, AND SUBSCRIBING TO OUR NEWSLETTER. |
| Deadlines | EACH FUNDING OPPORTUNITY WILL HAVE ITS OWN APPLICATION CRITERIA AND DEADLINES. |
| Restrictions | ANY RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS ON AWARDS, SUCH AS BY GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS, CHARITABLE FIELDS, KIND OF INSTITUTIONS OR OTHER FACTORS: -MEDICAL RESEARCH, ORGANIZATIONS OR PROJECTS WHOSE MISSION IS TO PREVENT, ERADICATE AND/OR ALLEVIATE THE EFFECTS OF A SPECIFIC DISEASE -POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS AND LEGISLATIVE LOBBYING EFFORTS -PROJECTS THAT EXCLUSIVELY SERVE RELIGIOUS PURPOSES -DIRECT SUPPORT FOR INDIVIDUALS |
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What it funds
Share of grant lines on the latest return, classified from the purpose each grant states.
Where it gives
63% of grants went outside Florida.
Grants paid in tax year 2024
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Associated Press | New York, NY | To support the associated press to ensure state-based, public-service journalism is available in 50 states while ap devises a new local… | $5,000,000 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | To sustain the institute, which will convene, support and provide accessible, actionable, nonpartisan insights to the stakeholders and… | $4,000,000 |
| Groundtruth Project Inc | Boston, MA | To recruit, hire, train and place reporters from a variety of experiences and backgrounds into local newsrooms, and build durable local… | $3,000,000 |
| The Miami Foundation | Miami, FL | Support the growth, adaptation and diversification of newsmatch in the press forward era, to increase the competency of non-profit… | $2,859,554 |
| The Miami Foundation | Miami, FL | To foster healthy communities by aiding local news publishers in the production of fact-based state and local election reporting, with a… | $2,800,000 |
| The Miami Foundation | Miami, FL | To help local news organizations poised for statewide growth expand into new markets. | $2,703,000 |
| The Pew Charitable Trusts | Philadelphia, PA | To support a five-year, co-branded partnership between knight and grantees subsidiary, the pew research center to study and widely share… | $2,500,000 |
| The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Assets Fund of Tpf | Philadelphia, PA | Create an accelerator supporting technology solutions essential for publishers and journalists to achieve their educational mission and… | $2,249,500 |
| The Miami Foundation | Miami, FL | To supplement the elections integrity fund at the miami foundation, which fosters healthy communities by aiding local news publishers in… | $2,100,000 |
| American Journalism Project | DC, WA | To provide the lead investment in the american journalism project, (ajp) a first-of-its-kind venture philanthropy organization focused on… | $2,000,000 |
| Civic News Company | New York, NY | To strengthen civic news company's business infrastructure, long-term organizational sustainability and the content available to local… | $2,000,000 |
| National Trust for Local News | Denver, CO | To support high-quality local news in macon, advance the sustainability of the georgia trust for local news in middle georgia, and… | $1,794,500 |
| New World Symphony Inc | Miami Beach, FL | To support the use of evolving technologies to reimagine the concert experience, expand the symphony's educational network, and build… | $1,666,667 |
| Institute for Nonprofit News | Los Angeles, CA | To support the institute for nonprofit news and its programs to strengthen the high-quality local news ecosystem in the u.s. by focusing on… | $1,636,380 |
| Foundation for Detroit's Future | Detroit, MI | As part of a group of funders supporting detroit's plan of adjustment to allow detroit to emerge from bankruptcy (A) a financially… | $1,500,000 |
| International Center for Journalists | Washington, DC | To better connect international journalists in order to develop new entrepreneurial opportunities, incorporate new technologies and protect… | $1,500,000 |
| The Miami Foundation | Miami, FL | To ensure that newsrooms in nine u.s. swing states can access election-related journalism and services from the associated press so they… | $1,500,000 |
| Ohio & Erie Canalway Coalition | Akron, OH | To redesign and rebuild lock 3 as an excellent special event space and an inviting everyday day park for employees and new residents. | $1,335,000 |
| Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | To equip newsrooms with one-stop shopping at big local news for data that AIDS local news story production. | $1,300,000 |
| Techcongress Foundation | San Francisco, CA | To strengthen technology expertise within the u.s. congress by supporting the congressional innovation fellowship, which places an even… | $1,280,000 |
| Clemson University | Clemson, SC | To support the growth of the media forensics hub at clemson university. | $1,261,925 |
| Develop Detroit Inc | Detroit, MI | To construct eight single-family homes in the north end neighborhood as a proof of concept for urban modular home construction and… | $1,250,000 |
| The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York | New York, NY | To transform reader revenue tools and methods from a pilot program into a sustainable data and ai-product suite for publishers. | $1,201,283 |
| Propublica Inc | New York, NY | To catalyze the next phase of propublica's local reporting network via support of newsrooms in communities historically underserved by… | $1,095,232 |
| Muckrock Foundation Incorporated | Boston, MA | To solidify muckrocks role as a provider of tools for journalists and steward of a developer ecosystem. | $1,070,000 |
| Akron Art Museum | Akron, OH | To support digital integration throughout the museum via implementation of the digital integration plan, the creation of the knight center… | $1,000,000 |
| Downtown Akron Partnership Inc | Akron, OH | To support the establishment of a fund to acquire and develop downtown properties and continue downtown programming. | $1,000,000 |
| Foundation for the Carolinas | Charlotte, NC | To establish the knight tech infusion fund at foundation for the carolinas that will increase the capacity and sustainability of charlotte… | $1,000,000 |
| Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc | Miami, FL | To expand and digitally equip the facilities of the institute of contemporary art, miami by purchasing and renovating a building adjacent… | $1,000,000 |
| Miami Dade College Foundation Inc | Miami, FL | To provide a 1:1 match of miami-dade countys $5,000,000 contribution and city of miamis $2,000,000 contribution of american rescue plan act… | $1,000,000 |
| Miami Waterkeeper | Coral Gables, FL | To support the growth of miami waterkeeper, a climate resilience nonprofit organization, through the hiring of executive leadership and the… | $1,000,000 |
| Miami-Dade Innovation Authority Inc | Coral Gables, FL | To support the establishment of the miami-dade innovation authority (mdia), a nonpartisan initiative to accelerate adoption of technologies… | $1,000,000 |
| Motown Historical Museum Inc | Detroit, MI | To digitize key audio, audiovisual and physical artifacts from motown's archive and make them available to the public via a "digital… | $1,000,000 |
| National Faith Homebuyers | Detroit, MI | To support the second phase of the down payment assistance program, which will support at least 300 families to purchase homes. | $1,000,000 |
| News Revenue Hub Inc | San Diego, CA | Accelerate the news revenue hubs capacity by scaling its technical staff to enable product, analytics, and data benchmarking capabilities,… | $1,000,000 |
| Ohio Local Information Initiative Inc | Columbus, OH | To provide the catalytic investment in signal akron, a new nonprofit digital news site managed by the ohio local news initiative. signal… | $1,000,000 |
| The Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center | Philadelphia, PA | To increase access to and engagement with artistic programming both on-site and online for the philadelphia orchestra and kimmel center,… | $1,000,000 |
| The Well Community Development Corporation | Akron, OH | Provide 1:1 match of the city of akrons $4,000,000 contribution of american rescue plan act funding to support the middlebury housing… | $1,000,000 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | To support the media, technology, and democracy initiative at the university of pennsylvania. | $1,000,000 |
| University of Miami | Miami, FL | To support the construction of the knight center for music innovation - a state of the art facility that will engage students and audiences… | $1,000,000 |
| New York University | New York, NY | To establish the center for social media and politics at new york university. | $989,500 |
| Various - Matching Gifts to Public Charities | Miami, FL | Other description | $984,240 |
| Codepathorg | San Francisco, CA | To continue support for and to expand codepaths programs at florida international university and miami dade college. | $956,250 |
| University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation | Burlington, VT | To catalyze and strengthen partnerships between college reporting programs and local news outlets to help address america's news desert… | $934,000 |
| Ohio & Erie Canalway Coalition | Akron, OH | Provide 1:1 match of the city of akrons $3,500,000 contribution of american rescue plan act funding to support the redesign and rebuilding… | $875,000 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | To stabilize operations and execute initiatives focused on scaling participation in the knight centers online courses. | $845,000 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | To establish an institute that convenes, supports and provides accessible, actionable, nonpartisan insights to the stakeholders and… | $840,000 |
| Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc | Havertown, PA | To fund 200 sustainability audits for local news outlets and then provide post-audit consulting and dollars to publishers so they can best… | $816,667 |
| Open Markets Institute | Washington, DC | To provide renewed support for nonpartisan competition policy research at the center for journalism and liberty at the open markets… | $800,000 |
| R Street Institute | Washington, DC | To provide renewed support to r street institute for nonpartisan technology policy research that can inform approaches to improve online… | $800,000 |
| Catchlight | San Francisco, CA | To secure the national expansion of catchlight local, a new model that advances the visual capacity of local newsrooms across the united… | $750,000 |
| The Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington, VA | To support "judy woodruff reports: america at a crossroads," a two-year reporting effort designed to speak to americans all around our… | $750,000 |
| Robert C Maynard Institute for Journalism Education | Oakland, CA | Train news leaders and entrepreneurs on business development, management, marketing and building healthy workplaces. | $725,000 |
| Center for Democracy and Technology | Washington, DC | To provide renewed support for nonpartisan research on digital media, online speech and democracy. | $700,000 |
| Florida International University Foundation Inc | Miami, FL | To support the growth of the school of computing and information sciences (scis) at florida international university as it seeks to become… | $700,000 |
| University of Washington Foundation | Seattle, WA | To establish the center for an informed public at the university of washington. | $672,223 |
| Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism Cuny Foundation | New York, NY | To improve the financial health of local news outlets that serve black, latin and asian communities in the u.s. and to increase their… | $670,000 |
| American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | Washington, DC | To provide renewed support for the american enterprise institutes survey center on american life and for nonpartisan research on technology… | $667,000 |
| Gablestage Inc | Coral Gables, FL | To support digital experimentation and capacity building through staffing, digital equipment and tools that enable gablestage to share… | $667,000 |
| Jorge M Perez Art Museum of Miami Dade County Inc | Miami, FL | To accelerate pamms role as a leader in the presentation, conservation, and promotion of digital art. | $666,666 |
Showing the 60 largest of 513 grants to organizations.
Grants approved for future payment
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Journalism Project | Washington, DC | To support ajp's goal of ensuring the long-term sustainability of an independent, resilient civic press that reaches more communities and… | $25,000,000 |
| Groundtruth Project Inc | Boston, MA | To recruit, hire, train and place reporters from various experiences and backgrounds into local newsrooms, and build durable local revenue… | $20,000,000 |
| The Miami Foundation | Miami, FL | Support the growth, adaptation and diversification of newsmatch in the press forward era, to increase the competency of non-profit… | $15,000,000 |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | Tempe, AZ | To launch the knight center for the future of news, which will expand on asus teaching hospital model by creating labs focused on business… | $10,569,238 |
| Local Initiatives Support Corporation | New York, NY | To support the construction and initial operations of the historic west end food co-op market. | $6,000,000 |
| The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Assets Fund of Tpf | Philadelphia, PA | To invest in sustainable, high-quality local news and information in philadelphia and support other knight communities with their own press… | $5,500,000 |
| The Miami Foundation | Miami, FL | To help local news organizations poised for statewide growth expand into new markets. | $5,406,000 |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | Tempe, AZ | To support newswell, an asu project focused on the provision of news and information that educates and informs the public through local… | $5,000,000 |
| Charlotte Ballet | Charlotte, NC | To support the charlotte ballet's capital campaign to expand and digitally integrate its campus in uptown charlotte. | $5,000,000 |
| Civic News Company | New York, NY | To strengthen civic news company's business infrastructure, long-term organizational sustainability and the content available to local… | $5,000,000 |
| Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc | Miami, FL | To expand and digitally equip the facilities of the institute of contemporary art, miami by purchasing and renovating a building adjacent… | $5,000,000 |
| New World Symphony Inc | Miami Beach, FL | To support the use of evolving technologies to reimagine the concert experience, expand the symphony's educational network, and build… | $5,000,000 |
| The Associated Press | New York, NY | To support the associated press to ensure state-based, public-service journalism is available in 50 states while ap devises a new local… | $5,000,000 |
| The Miami Foundation | Miami, FL | To establish an endowment that will fund the use of, and experimentation with, evolving technologies in the creation, presentation and… | $5,000,000 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | To support the media, technology, and democracy initiative at the university of pennsylvania. | $5,000,000 |
| University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation | Burlington, VT | To catalyze and strengthen partnerships between college reporting programs and local news outlets to help address america's news desert… | $5,000,000 |
| Local Media Foundation | Lake City, MI | To provide training opportunities to local media association (lma) members so that they can provide relevant, fact-based information to… | $4,950,000 |
| Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | To equip newsrooms with one-stop shopping at big local news for data that AIDS local news story production. | $3,900,000 |
| Muckrock Foundation Incorporated | Boston, MA | To solidify muckrocks role as a provider of tools for journalists and steward of a developer ecosystem. | $3,900,000 |
| Codepathorg | San Francisco, CA | To continue support for and to expand codepaths programs at florida international university and miami dade college. | $3,500,000 |
| Propublica Inc | New York, NY | To catalyze the next phase of propublica's local reporting network via support of newsrooms in communities historically underserved by… | $3,379,642 |
| The George Washington University | Washington, DC | To provide renewed support for the institute for data, democracy & politics. | $3,000,000 |
| The Miami Foundation | Miami, FL | To establish an endowment fund to provide ongoing revenue for technology and continued digital experimentation, integration, and expansion… | $3,000,000 |
| The Miami Foundation | Miami, FL | To support press forward south florida, a tri-county effort to create and sustain a thriving local news ecosystem that serves the… | $3,000,000 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | To support research at the center for media engagement. | $3,000,000 |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, WI | To support the growth of the center for communication and civic renewal. | $3,000,000 |
| The Miami Foundation | Miami, FL | To foster healthy communities by aiding local news publishers in the production of fact-based state and local election reporting, with a… | $2,800,000 |
| Downtown Akron Partnership Inc | Akron, OH | To support the establishment of a fund to acquire and develop downtown properties and continue downtown programming. | $2,750,000 |
| Local Initiatives Support Corporation | New York, NY | To establish the historic west end tenant improvement fund and continue to support lisc charlotte operations. | $2,750,000 |
| Curators of the University of Missouri | Columbia, MO | To create a digital on-demand services online marketplace for affordable, fractional digital technology and operational resources, curated… | $2,500,000 |
| Develop Detroit Inc | Detroit, MI | To construct eight single-family homes in the north end neighborhood as a proof of concept for urban modular home construction and… | $2,500,000 |
| Montclair State University Foundation Inc | Montclair, NJ | To launch 20 journalism collaboratives and provide themand existing collaborativeswith support and coaching to maximize community impact… | $2,500,000 |
| National Association of Broadcasters Via the Miami Foundation | Washington, DC | Establish a lab for real-world experimentation by local broadcasters with atsc 3.0-powered news experiences, develop and share learning… | $2,500,000 |
| Robert C Maynard Institute for Journalism Education | Oakland, CA | Train news leaders and entrepreneurs on business development, management, marketing and building healthy workplaces. | $2,500,000 |
| Solutions Journalism Network | New York, NY | To demonstrate that solutions journalism directly connects to news organizations ability to raise new and ongoing revenue from sponsors,… | $2,500,000 |
| The Miami Foundation | Miami, FL | To support the grantees of the knight art + tech expansion fund miami, an open call focused on digital integration for artists and arts &… | $2,500,000 |
| Data & Society Research Institute | New York, NY | To support nonpartisan research at the data & society research institute. | $2,200,000 |
| Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism Cuny Foundation | New York, NY | To develop the skills of nonprofit news leaders and mid-career executives to support the growth of local news organizations and improve the… | $2,124,000 |
| The Miami Foundation | Miami, FL | To supplement the elections integrity fund at the miami foundation, which fosters healthy communities by aiding local news publishers in… | $2,100,000 |
| The Video Consortium Inc | Mount Kisco, NY | To launch templatized local nonfiction video hubs, a professionalized events arm, and scalable digital tools to solidify video as a more… | $2,100,000 |
| Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism Cuny Foundation | New York, NY | To establish a knight press freedom fellowship program, in which leading u.s. journalism schools provide fellowships for journalists at… | $2,000,000 |
| Documented Ltd | New York, NY | To educate newsrooms serving immigrant newsrooms around the nation on documented's engagement model, so that they may better provide those… | $2,000,000 |
| Florida International University Foundation Inc | Miami, FL | To support the research, development, implementation and analytics for a digital platform that makes the wolfsonian collection accessible… | $2,000,000 |
| Jorge M Perez Art Museum of Miami Dade County Inc | Miami, FL | To accelerate pamms role as a leader in the presentation, conservation, and promotion of digital art. | $2,000,000 |
| Miami Dade College Foundation Inc | Miami, FL | To consolidate mdc cultural affairs digital processes and capacity across programs to more efficiently and effectively engage audiences… | $2,000,000 |
| Neo Philanthropy | New York, NY | To launch and support press forward charlotte, which will catalyze community dollars to support the city's growing local news ecosystem. | $2,000,000 |
| Plug & Play LLC | Sunnyvale, CA | To support the establishment of an ai startup accelerator program in downtown san jose. | $2,000,000 |
| The Miami Foundation | Miami, FL | To support the winners of knight new work, an open call to miami-based artists and arts organizations for new works across artistic genres… | $2,000,000 |
| The Miami Foundation | Miami, FL | To establish an endowment fund to provide ongoing revenue for technology and continued digital experimentation, integration, and expansion… | $2,000,000 |
| The Miami Foundation | Miami, FL | To establish the knight foundation federal alumni fellowship fund at the miami foundation. | $2,000,000 |
| Lawfare Institute | Washington, DC | To support the expansion of the lawfare institutes independent, nonpartisan policy research and analysis. | $1,750,000 |
| First Amendment Coalition | San Rafael, CA | To expand the ability of the first amendment coalition to provide legal support and educational programs for local newsrooms in order to… | $1,650,000 |
| Florida International University Foundation Inc | Miami, FL | To integrate technology into the design of the facade and interior of casacuba. | $1,500,000 |
| Greater Public | Austin, TX | To support the execution of digital strategies at public media stations. | $1,500,000 |
| International Center for Journalists | Washington, DC | To better connect international journalists in order to develop new entrepreneurial opportunities, incorporate new technologies and protect… | $1,500,000 |
| Local Media Foundation | Lake City, MI | Develop a shared customer data platform for word in black publishers and other organizations serving primarily black audiences. | $1,500,000 |
| Nc Local Inc | Wilmington, NC | To launch a new form of statewide collaborative journalism hub that contextualizes state issues in a fact-based, nonpartisan manner for… | $1,500,000 |
| Public Media Company | Boulder, CO | Empowering public media organizations to equitably expand access to local news through deeper community insights, actionable information… | $1,500,000 |
| The Miami Foundation | Miami, FL | To continue support for reimagining the civic commons learning network for knight cities. | $1,500,000 |
| The Miami Foundation | Miami, FL | To ensure that newsrooms in nine u.s. swing states can access election-related journalism and services from the associated press so they… | $1,500,000 |
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Grant lines |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $147,682,903 | 891 |
| 2023 | $120,142,770 | 704 |
Sources
- IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2024, filed Nov 6, 2025 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202523109349100927
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 65-0464177
- Profile updated Nov 4, 2026
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