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Organization Profile
Knight Foundation
aka knight
A U.S. national foundation investing in healthier, more informed communities across journalism, local news, the arts, and civic and information ecosystems. Ideas can be submitted year-round via an online letter of inquiry, program directors make local grants year-round, and specific challenges and RFPs run on fixed windows -- for example the Knight Cities Challenge, which invests up to $200,000 per selected project. Software developed with Knight News Challenge grant funds must be released open source.1,2,3,4
Programs
2 programs on fileKnight News Challenge
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Knight Prototype Fund
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Awards
79 on fileShowing 1-25 of 79, newest dated evidence first
RecipientProgramAmountDateEvidence
- Avenue North Renaissance (The Lights of North Broad AR, North Broad Philadelphia)ProgramSmart CitiesAmount$123KDateMar 8, 2022
- Centre for Public Impact North America & Beeck Center for Social Impact & Innovation (The Opportunity Project for Cities)ProgramSmart Cities (Data for Civic Engagement / civic tech)Amount$3.3MDateMar 8, 2022
- Coding it Forward (Civic Innovation Corps)ProgramSmart CitiesAmount$100KDateMar 8, 2022
- Earth HQ (via Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors) — Earth DashboardProgramSmart CitiesAmount$195KDateMar 8, 2022
- Georgetown University – Beeck CenterProgramSmart CitiesAmount$250KDateMar 8, 2022
- Harvard University (digital infrastructure optimization network)ProgramSmart CitiesAmount$150KDateMar 8, 2022
- The Foundation of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (integrated data system)ProgramSmart CitiesAmount$150KDateMar 8, 2022
- US IgniteProgramSmart CitiesAmount$214KDateMar 8, 2022
- Code for America (local Brigade chapters)ProgramSmart Cities (civic technology)Amount$1 millionDateMay 11, 2021
- All the Places Personal Data Goes — Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard UniversityProgramKnight News Challenge on Data (full award)Amount$440,000DateJan 26, 2016
- Charlotte ZipBus — Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS)ProgramKnight News Challenge on Data (Prototype Fund)Amount$35,000DateJan 26, 2016
- Citizens Police Data Project — The Experimental Station / The Invisible InstituteProgramKnight News Challenge on Data (full award)Amount$400,000DateJan 26, 2016
- Civic Infrastructure for Workers — Coworker.orgProgramKnight News Challenge on Data (Prototype Fund)Amount$35,000DateJan 26, 2016
- Could Your Data Discriminate? — Data & Society Research InstituteProgramKnight News Challenge on Data (Prototype Fund)Amount$35,000DateJan 26, 2016
- Data Equity for Main Street — California State Library / Nevada State Library / State of Washington Technology SolutionsProgramKnight News Challenge on Data (full award)Amount$470,000DateJan 26, 2016
- Democratizing Data through Visual Search Results — City of RaleighProgramKnight News Challenge on Data (Prototype Fund)Amount$35,000DateJan 26, 2016
- Documents Empowerment Project — mReliefProgramKnight News Challenge on Data (full award)Amount$250,000DateJan 26, 2016
- Excellence In, Excellence Out – Data Quality Uplift for Government — Stephanie SingerProgramKnight News Challenge on Data (Prototype Fund)Amount$35,000DateJan 26, 2016
- FOIA Mapper — Max GalkaProgramKnight News Challenge on Data (Prototype Fund)Amount$35,000DateJan 26, 2016
- Law, Order and Algorithms — Stanford UniversityProgramKnight News Challenge on Data (full award)Amount$310,000DateJan 26, 2016
- Legislation Tracker: Beyond the Bills — NJ SpotlightProgramKnight News Challenge on Data (Prototype Fund)Amount$35,000DateJan 26, 2016
- PublicBits: Breaking Down Open Data Silos — U.S. Open DataProgramKnight News Challenge on Data (full award)Amount$420,000DateJan 26, 2016
- Quantified Self Data Experience — University of Colorado Boulder (Michael Skirpan)ProgramKnight News Challenge on Data (Prototype Fund)Amount$35,000DateJan 26, 2016
- SeaGlass: Bringing Transparency to Cellphone Surveillance — University of WashingtonProgramKnight News Challenge on Data (Prototype Fund)Amount$35,000DateJan 26, 2016
- Security Force Monitor — Human Rights Institute, Columbia UniversityProgramKnight News Challenge on Data (full award)Amount$237,589DateJan 26, 2016
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Programs
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Awards
79
Grantees
$12.2M
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0
Live rounds
no open or announced rounds on file
Active
Status
Focus Areas
journalism, local news & information, arts & culture, community impact, economic mobility, information ecosystems, civic technology.
Typical sizeVaries by program; the Knight Cities Challenge invests up to $200,000 per selected project (one-year projects)
CadenceYear-round letter of inquiry (LOI); program directors make local grants year-round; specific challenges/RFPs have fixed windows.