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Christian Community Foundation of Memphis
The foundation exists to build god's kingdom by serving donors in the mid-south as they seek to provide resources for god's work in our community and throughout the world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 636 grants below total $109,687,958 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $116,416,664 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,728,706 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k124 grants · $879k
- $10k–50k294 grants · $5.7M
- $50k–250k143 grants · $16M
- $250k+75 grants · $87M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STRATEGIC RESOURCE GROUP | $14,772,047 |
| THE SIGNATRY | $11,000,000 |
| IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $6,044,645 |
| INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION | $5,000,000 |
| NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $3,951,770 |
| MISSION INDIA | $2,350,000 |
| CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC | $2,243,080 |
| ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $2,114,825 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $1,833,440 |
| THE SEED COMPANY | $1,685,579 |
| CITY LEADERSHIP | $1,445,000 |
| SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,334,219 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $1,287,479 |
| CROSSTOWN ARTS | $1,257,047 |
| THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL OF MEMPHIS | $1,174,895 |
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 (FY17–25, $18.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +31% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
735 repeat relationships — 432 still active in FY2025, 303 since wound down; 169 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.9M 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
- SRSTRATEGIC RESOURCE GROUP INC8× · 2017–2025 · $43M · revenue +305%
COLLEGIATE SCHOOL OF MEMPHIS8× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +38% · 95% of their budget- MTMEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $17M · revenue +4% · 76% of their budget
Funded once
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $730k · revenue +700%
- MEMEMPHIS EDUCATION FUND INCone grant, 2019 · $656k · revenue -30%
- CCCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $645k · revenue ×13
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Barnabas Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
908 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. 908 of the 1,348 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 STRATEGIC RESOURCE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds Servant Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE SCHOOL OF MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC ↗
- Who funds Crosstown Arts ↗
- Who funds CITY LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds TECH901 ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES CHARITABLE ↗
- Who funds AGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Development Assoc International ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds STREETS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WORLD BIBLE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Friends of Agape ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTESIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Orphanos Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MOORE-WEST CENTER FOR DISCIPLE FORMATION ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
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: The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Grace Foundation of Memphis Inc · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Wiseheart Foundation Inc · Crews Family Foundation · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · United Way of the Mid South · Slingshot Memphis Inc · The Urban Child Institute · Thomas Garrott 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 organization Christian Community 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
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.