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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $17,522 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $41,206 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,684 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL OF MEMPHIS | $17,522 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 0% of your 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.
9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SFSOULSVILLE FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +26%
- MTMEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC2× · 2022–2023 · $13k · revenue +16%
Teach for America Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $13k · revenue +20%
Funded once
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.
Memphis merit academy charter school prepares kindergarten through 8th-grade students in memphis for success in high school, college, and life by providing rigorous academics, high-quality instruction, and character development in a…
Harding academy of memphis, inc. is a private school providing education from pre kindergarten through grade twelve.
Memphis university school is a college-preparatory school dedicated to academic excellence, cultivation of service and leadership, and the development of well-rounded young men of strong moral character, consistent with the school's…
King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.
Educate children in a christ like manner
Elementary and high school education
To provide students in grades 6-12 with an excellent education, preparing them to pursue ambitious goals and succeed in college.
Allmemphis, inc. works to equip teachers and literacy coaches in partner schools with orton-gillingham training, then provides a multi-year in-school mentorship to support the implementation of the approach.
Through rigorous curriculum, high-quality instruction, and positive character development, purpose preparatory academy charter school ensures that all kindergarten through grade four students achieve the academic skills, knowledge, and…
To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
To partner with families in providing students a christ-centered and academically challenging education equipping them with a biblical worldview as they grow in understandings, attitudes, skills, and in favor with god and man.
To provide kindergarten through fifth grade students with the academic and ethical foundation to excel in school and in life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Grizzlies Preparatory Charter School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Soulsville Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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.
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 COLLEGIATE SCHOOL OF MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SOULSVILLE CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STREETS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
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 · 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
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 City Leadership 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.
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