How much does Artsmemphis give?

Artsmemphis reported 46 itemized grants totaling $1,596,795, out of $1,701,406 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 45 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does Artsmemphis fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (93%), Youth Development (5%), Education (1%).

Who are Artsmemphis's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc ($1.3M), Opera Memphis Inc ($906k), Ballet Memphis Corporation ($742k).

Does Artsmemphis fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Artsmemphis?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc, Jr Hyde III Family Foundation.

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Tennessee · Public charity

Artsmemphis

Supporting the arts to strengthen the memphis community.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 46
Itemized grants FY2025: 45
Organizations funded FY2024: 7%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.6M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $19,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $381,000
Organizations funded a year: 21 to 45; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $29M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Artsmemphis funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	46	$1.6M	7%
FY2024	45	$1.3M	7%
FY2023	45	$1.9M	31%
FY2020	34	$1.6M	12%
FY2019	28	$1.5M	14%
FY2018	23	$1.3M	39%
FY2017	21	$1.4M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$9.8MYouth Development$571kEducation$112kHealth$8kReligion$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc	$1,328,700	9	5%
Opera Memphis Inc	$905,950	9	18%
Ballet Memphis Corporation	$741,700	9	4%
Soulsville Foundation	$696,000	9	6%
Memphis Symphony Orchestra Inc	$665,600	9	6%
Circuit Playhouse Inc	$646,000	9	6%
Theatre Memphis	$518,100	9	6%
National Ornamental Metal Museum Inc	$503,500	9	7%
Memphis Equity Through Arts Inc	$485,000	3	20%
New Ballet Ensemble Inc	$446,100	9	4%

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All grantees of Artsmemphis by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc	$1,328,700	9	5%
Opera Memphis Inc	$905,950	9	18%
Ballet Memphis Corporation	$741,700	9	4%
Soulsville Foundation	$696,000	9	6%
Memphis Symphony Orchestra Inc	$665,600	9	6%
Circuit Playhouse Inc	$646,000	9	6%
Theatre Memphis	$518,100	9	6%
National Ornamental Metal Museum Inc	$503,500	9	7%
Memphis Equity Through Arts Inc	$485,000	3	20%
New Ballet Ensemble Inc	$446,100	9	4%
Collage Dance Collective	$369,330	9	2%
Hattiloo Theatre	$231,725	9	3%
Indie Memphis	$215,810	9	25%
The Collective the Cltv Inc	$172,000	5	n/a
The Overton Park Shell Inc	$169,500	9	3%
The Blues Foundation Inc	$157,000	9	2%
Orpheum Theatre Group	$155,200	9	0%
Tennessee Shakespeare Company	$144,100	9	4%
The Urbanart Commission	$136,500	8	5%
Iris Orchestra Inc	$114,740	9	4%
Carpenter Art Garden	$111,850	7	8%
Germantown Performing Arts Center	$108,500	8	1%
Creative Aging Memphis	$107,750	8	10%
Music Export Memphis	$106,000	5	18%
Memphis Rock N Soul Museum Inc	$85,750	9	2%
Crosstown Arts	$84,050	6	0%
Prizm Ensemble Inc	$83,670	9	11%
Everystory	$83,050	8	3%
Beale Street Caravan Inc	$79,350	5	12%
Angel Street Inc	$77,940	7	6%
Cazateatro Bilngual Theater Group	$53,950	5	9%
Young Actors Guild Inc	$51,900	5	4%
Perfecting Gifts Incorporated	$48,200	5	21%
Lee Jazz Omega Inc Memphis Jazz Workshop	$45,500	5	5%
Voices of the South	$45,380	2	20%
Germantown Community Theatre Inc	$44,600	6	3%
Artists for Community Transformation Intl	$44,600	5	1%
Harmonic South String Orchestra Inc	$42,100	4	14%
Memphis Youth Symphony Program	$36,730	4	5%
New Day Children's Theatre Inc	$36,100	6	5%
Riverartsfest Inc	$33,550	5	4%
Crosstown Radio Partnership Inc	$29,565	2	2%
Arkwings Foundation	$28,000	3	37%
Memphis Black Arts Alliance Inc	$28,000	4	4%
Memphis Choralarts	$26,320	3	14%
Blues City Cultural Center Inc	$26,000	7	6%
Arrow Creative Inc	$24,990	4	3%
On Location Memphis Inc	$20,000	5	13%
Downtown Dream Machine D/B/A Theatreworks	$14,500	4	10%
Memphis Slim Collaboratory Inc	$12,000	3	20%
Contemporary Arts Memphis	$10,800	1	1%
Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Africa in April Cultural Awareness Committee Incorporated	$8,000	1	n/a
Concerts International Inc	$7,500	1	n/a
Tennessee Art Education Association	$7,050	1	n/a
The Big We	$7,000	1	0%
Subroy Movement Foundation Inc	$6,300	3	n/a
Princeton James Project	$6,250	1	1%

Artsmemphis supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 53.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN86.6× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Memphis Equity Through Arts Inc · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · Plough Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · Humanities Tennessee · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Adams Arthur & Alice Fdn · Rose Montgomery Johnston Family Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Artsmemphis

How much does Artsmemphis give?: Artsmemphis reported 46 itemized grants totaling $1,596,795, out of $1,701,406 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 45 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Artsmemphis fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (93%), Youth Development (5%), Education (1%).
Who are Artsmemphis's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc ($1.3M), Opera Memphis Inc ($906k), Ballet Memphis Corporation ($742k).
Does Artsmemphis fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Artsmemphis?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc, Jr Hyde III Family Foundation.
Where is Artsmemphis based?: Artsmemphis is based in TN.