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City Leadership

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 recruit talented individuals to memphis, to develop leaders and organizations in memphis, and to…

$41k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$18k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$17,522
Largest grant, FY2024
$17,522
Organizations funded a year
9 to 9
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations City Leadership funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$18k0%
FY20239$90k0%
FY20229$80kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$142kYouth Development$31kArts & Culture$15k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Collegiate School of Memphis$63,20131%
New Hope Christian Academy$18,27420%
Soulsville Charter School$17,25720%
Memphis Grizzlies Preparatory Charter School Inc$16,53720%
Memphis Athletic Ministries Inc$15,29020%
Soulsville Foundation$15,29020%
Streets Ministries Inc$15,29020%
Memphis Teacher Residency Inc$13,22320%
Teach for America Inc$13,22320%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget City Leadership supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCollegiate School of Memphis: $63,201 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNew Hope Christian Academy: $18,274 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSoulsville Charter School: $17,257 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMemphis Grizzlies Preparatory Charter School Inc: $16,537 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMemphis Athletic Ministries Inc: $15,290 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSoulsville Foundation: $15,290 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetStreets Ministries Inc: $15,290 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMemphis Teacher Residency Inc: $13,223 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $13,223 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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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 9.

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.

Christian Community F…Community Foundation …Slingshot Memphis IncThe Kemmons Wilson Fa…John Dustin Buckman C…Thomas W Briggs Found…Charities Aid Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Christian Community Foundation of MemphisTN21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Slingshot Memphis Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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How do I get to City Leadership?

Find your warmest path to City Leadership through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About City Leadership

How much does City Leadership give?
City Leadership reported 1 itemized grants totaling $17,522, out of $41,206 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 9 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does City Leadership fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (76%), Youth Development (16%), Arts & Culture (8%).
Who are City Leadership's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Collegiate School of Memphis ($63k), New Hope Christian Academy ($18k), Soulsville Charter School ($17k).
Does City Leadership fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as City Leadership?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation of Memphis, Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Slingshot Memphis Inc.
Where is City Leadership based?
City Leadership is based in TN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $193 of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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