· Private foundation
Children's Foundation of Memphis
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $235k
- $250k+2 grants · $935k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS | $564,109 |
| LEBONHEUR | $370,892 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $75,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS | $60,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $50,000 |
| AGAPE CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES | $50,000 |
| A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| JUVENILE INTERVENTION AND FAITH-BASED FOLLOW-UP | $45,000 |
| MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF | $35,000 |
| ARISE2READ | $30,000 |
| HARWOOD CENTER | $2,500 |
| HOPE HOUSE | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against -47% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $423k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CFChildren's Foundation Research Institute4× · 2017–2020 · $3.5M · revenue +1%
- TCTHE CAMPBELL FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $450k · revenue +26%
- ASA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2021 · $338k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- LCLEBONHEUR CHILDREN'S MEDICAL HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $140k
- JIJIFF INCone grant, 2017 · $52k · revenue -47%
- MBMEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +98%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
The mission is to create memorable learning experiences through the joy of play, in hands-on exhibits and programs. we accomplish this mission by reaching out to the mid-south school children, families, and the tourist visitor.
Harding academy of memphis, inc. is a private school providing education from pre kindergarten through grade twelve.
Kipp memphis public schools (kmps) is part of the non-profit kipp public schools network. together with families and communities, kmps create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to…
To advance state policies and practices that ensure all tennessee children from birth through 3rd grade get the high quality early education they need to power our state's future.
To operate a head start and early head start program for children and families in mississippi.
To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
City leadership's mission is to recruit, develop, and catalyze leaders for the benefit of the city of memphis. the organization was founded in order to maximize the leadership capital and potential of memphis. city leadership strives to…
To encourage philanthropy and foster leadership among women and support programs that enable women and children to reach their full potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Child Advocacy Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Children's Foundation Research Institute ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPBELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds AGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Binghampton Christian Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds PORTER-LEATH ↗
- Who funds ARISE2READ INC ↗
- Who funds SPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds JIFF INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Child Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds Kindred Place Inc ↗
- Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HARWOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Plough Foundation · The Urban Child Institute · John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust · Crews Family Foundation · United Way of the Mid South · Thomas Garrott Foundation · Belz Foundation · Slingshot Memphis Inc
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 organization Children's Foundation of 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.
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.