How much did Building Memphis grant in FY2022?

Building Memphis reported 7 grants totaling $179,082 in its FY2022 IRS filing.

Where is Building Memphis based?

Building Memphis is based in TN.

Building Memphis

Foundation Dossiers Mostly funded, not a grantmaker — see who funds it →

· Public charity

Building Memphis

BLDG Memphis drives investments in Memphis neighborhoods thru building capacity in supporting revitalization of Memphis neighborhods thru public policy development & advocacy, organizational capacity building & community education.

$179k

Granted FY2022

Grants

Communities

$46k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of Building Memphis’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

ncr plan

2020

marketingsoutheast sustainablesustainable partner

2021

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2022

ptreconomichousing

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2022 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$22,833

Median grant

States reached

$566k

Total assets

Largest grants

Alcy Ball CDC$46,167
Greater Whitehaven Economic$25,000
The Heights$22,833
Frayser CDC$22,833
Kingdom Community Builders$22,833
Klondike Smokey$22,833
B Score$16,583

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 19%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Memphis Center City Development Corporation

Assist Private Development Projects

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West Side Clt

Create permanently affordable housing with community-centered development in West Charlotte and beyond

Housing & Shelter

Village Communities Development Ctr

International

Achieving Community Task Successfully

Our work is directed toward neighborhood empowerment through expert resource collaborations, community engagement, and implementing initiatives that serve and impact the community.

Education

Village Development Corporation

The mission of the Village Development Corporation is to continually revitalize the community by increasing home hownership, supporting business development, and by eliminating blight.

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Cincinnati Northside Community

Cncurc's mission is to stabilize and revitalize the community by increasing homeownership, eliminating blight, and supporting business development.

Community Improvement

Mlk Avenue Redevelopment Corp

Community redevelopment

Community Improvement

Northeast Houston Redevelopment Council

Is to act as the platform for engaging collaborative solutions that produce economic development, equitable education and citizen's empowerment solutions that directly benefit the historically underserved communities of Northeast Houston.

Human Services

Jackson Community Development Corp

Our vision is to seek the wholistic wellbeing of the Jackson neighborhood, where residents are known, valued, and empowered to collaborate for the thriving of its people and place.

Community Improvement

The Midtown Community Development

Philanthropy

Center for Community Revitalization

Human Services

Revitalize Community Development

Revitalizing homes, neighborhoods and lives through preservation, education and community involvement.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Transforming Communities and the most unlike its peers is Legacy of Legends Cdc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

9/10

Grantees still filing

4/10

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$178,225Housing & Shelter$126,500Human Services$62,271Community Improvement$25,000Food & Nutrition$23,000Arts & Culture$22,833

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community FoundationTN23.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation · Community Lift Corp · The Kresge Foundation · United Way of the Mid South · Christian Community Foundation Of · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation Building Memphis funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Greater Whitehaven Economic.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 21.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 581943320 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Greater Whitehaven Economic, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 27% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Building Memphis?

Find your warmest path to Building Memphis through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Building Memphis

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Building Memphis?

More from the funding graph

Building Memphis

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Building Memphis?

More from the funding graph