· Community foundation
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc
The community foundation is a philanthropic organization that manages charitable funds with a broad base of donors to benefit the areas of western tennessee, eastern arkansas, and northern mississippi.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 761 grants below total $134,269,952 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $137,494,744 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,224,792 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 $10k140 grants · $1.0M
- $10k–50k378 grants · $7.4M
- $50k–250k151 grants · $16M
- $250k+92 grants · $110M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE WORKS INC | $13,357,815 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION | $11,614,426 |
| CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC | $8,638,778 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $8,098,000 |
| URBAN RENAISSANCE PARTNERS INC | $2,725,000 |
| ALZAR SCHOOL | $2,678,717 |
| ST GEORGE'S INDEPENDENT SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $2,668,076 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF TENNESSEE AND NORTH MISSISSIPPI | $2,622,760 |
| MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY | $2,351,750 |
| LEMOYNE-OWEN COLLEGE | $2,196,172 |
| COLLEGIATE SCHOOL OF MEMPHIS | $2,018,500 |
| GERMANTOWN BAPTIST CHURCH INC | $2,013,848 |
| EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $2,000,000 |
| MEMPHIS LIGHT GAS AND WATER DIVISION | $2,000,000 |
| MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL | $1,537,654 |
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 (FY19–25, $32.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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 +26% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
1066 repeat relationships — 581 still active in FY2025, 485 since wound down; 130 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M 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
- TWThe Works Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $56M · revenue ×36 · 60% of their budget
- CHCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $27M · revenue +50% · 29% of their budget
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREATER MEMPHIS REGION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $25M · revenue +12% · 45% of their budget
Funded once
- TPTHE PORTER-LEATH HOMEone grant, 2022 · $2.4M · revenue ×12
- LWLouden Walker Centerone grant, 2022 · $1.1M
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +214%
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 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 33 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
1519 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. 1519 of the 2,000 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 The Works Inc ↗
- Who funds PORTER-LEATH ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds Urban Renaissance Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREATER MEMPHIS REGION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LeMoyne-Owen College ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Preservation Inc ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS EQUITY THROUGH ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ALZAR SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS FOURTH ESTATE INC ↗
- Who funds A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds VIBRANT MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds PEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Memphis Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds MY CITY RIDES ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES USA INC ↗
- Who funds TREZEVANT MANOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds COLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM R MOORE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds THE COLLECTIVE BLUEPRINT ↗
- Who funds NEW DAY SCHOOLS INC DBA COMPASS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Memphis Center For Reproductive Health Inc ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Whole Child Strategies Inc ↗
- Who funds PROMISE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA OMEGA VETERANS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Binghampton Christian Academy 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: Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · United Way of the Mid South · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · The Urban Child Institute · Slingshot Memphis Inc · Plough Foundation · Artsmemphis · 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 Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Tall Timbers Research Inc — 10% of income from government
- St Andrew's School of Delaware Inc — 0% 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.