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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.

$137M
Granted FY2025still arriving
761
Grants FY2025still arriving
43
States reached
$13M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$253MCommunity Improvement$131MHealth$104MHuman Services$93MArts & Culture$86MReligion$63MYouth Development$44MPhilanthropy$43MOther$0
02FY2025 · 761 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 761 grants below total $134,269,952, the rows itemized in this filing. The $137,494,744 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,224,792 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k140 grants · $1.0M
  • $10k–50k378 grants · $7.4M
  • $50k–250k151 grants · $16M
  • $250k+92 grants · $110M
$20,200
Median grant
43
States reached
$953M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $32.5M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THINK REGENERATION NFP: $304k → 9%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $354k → 24%YMCA OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID: $1.0M → 17%LATINO MEMPHIS INC: $511k → 17%LATINO MEMPHIS INC: $440k → 17%LATINO MEMPHIS INC: $175k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $1.0M → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $462k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $434k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $389k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $386k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $340k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $316k → 17%EXPLORE BIKE SHARE: $300k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $297k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $212k → 17%HOSPITALITY HUB: $4.4M → 17%HOSPITALITY HUB: $1.2M → 17%HOSPITALITY HUB: $259k → 17%HOSPITALITY HUB: $252k → 17%HOSPITALITY HUB: $251k → 17%SHELBY RESIDENTIAL AND VOCATIONAL SERVICES INC (SRVS): $340k → 17%SHELBY RESIDENTIAL AND VOCATIONAL SERVICES INC (SRVS): $266k → 17%THE VILLAGE AT GERMANTOWN FOUNDATION: $168k → 17%CANCER KICKERS SOCCER CLUB: $155k → 17%OUTMEMPHIS: $2.3M → 17%OUTMEMPHIS: $439k → 17%OUTMEMPHIS: $434k → 17%OUTMEMPHIS: $414k → 17%OUTMEMPHIS: $323k → 17%OUTMEMPHIS: $220k → 17%OUTMEMPHIS: $190k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE: $184k → 17%SERVICE OVER SELF INC: $439k → 17%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIES: $277k → 17%MIFA: $250k → 17%SERVICE OVER SELF INC: $227k → 17%SERVICE OVER SELF INC: $223k → 17%SERVICE OVER SELF INC: $167k → 17%AUTOZONER ASSISTANCE FUND: $1.0M → 17%HOSPITALITY HUB: $343k → 17%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER MEMPHIS INC: $305k → 17%TREZEVANT MANOR: $3.2M → 17%THISTLE AND BEE ENTERPRISES: $705k → 17%YWCA OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $329k → 17%CHURCH OF THE HOLY COMMUNION: $391k → 17%CHURCH OF THE HOLY COMMUNION: $216k → 17%CHURCH OF THE HOLY COMMUNION: $195k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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AR
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$894M · 1066 repeat orgs$27M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1066
741

Total granted

$894M
$23M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+14%

Still filing today

74%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthReligionPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TW
    The Works Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $56M · revenue ×36 · 60% of their budget
  • CH
    CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $27M · revenue +50% · 29% of their budget
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREATER MEMPHIS REGION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $25M · revenue +12% · 45% of their budget

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PORTER-LEATH HOME
    one grant, 2022 · $2.4M · revenue ×12
  • LW
    Louden Walker Center
    one grant, 2022 · $1.1M
  • GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +214%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Furman University

Furman university is an institution of higher education providing distinctive undergraduate education emphasizing an engaged approach combining classroom learning with real world experiences and self-discovery.

Education
2
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio is a non-profit, non-commercial public media service. nashville public radio's mission is to create and deliver content essential to understanding your world.

Arts & Culture
3
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Lehigh University

Lehigh university strives to earn international prominence as a universty of special distinction and provide students with opportunities for success through its integration of teaching, research and service to society.

Education
6
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
7
Augustana College

Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.

Education
8
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god.

Education
9
The Common Application Inc

The common application promotes access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process.

Education
10
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion through both undergraduate and graduate educational…

Education
11
Central Indiana Corporate

The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…

Community Improvement
12
University of New Haven

University of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Guild for Community Arts Education Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Tropical Botanical Garden. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

1519 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

175
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
311
Early backer (in before they grew)
1452/1519
Grantees still filing
969/1519
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $20,350,896 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOU…CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY: $15,429,168 · EducationCHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVER…LeMoyne-Owen College: $14,483,740 · EducationLeMoyne-Owen CollegeALZAR SCHOOL INC: $11,540,728 · EducationALZAR SCHOOL INCWILLIAM R MOORE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $6,320,450 · Education+45 more: $115,272,114 · Education+45 morePORTER-LEATH: $43,298,013 · OtherPORTER-LEATHCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND: $15,579,320 · OtherCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL G…+82 more: $226,734,601 · Other+82 moreMemphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc: $19,366,023 · Arts & CultureMemphis Broo…MEMPHIS EQUITY THROUGH ARTS INC: $11,551,684 · Arts & CultureMEMPHIS EQUI…MEMPHIS FOURTH ESTATE INC: $11,376,074 · Arts & CultureMEMPHIS FOUR…MEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $8,158,237 · Arts & CultureMEMPHIS SYMP…FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $6,769,351 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTO…COLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE: $6,434,102 · Arts & CultureCOLLAGE DANC…Crosstown Arts: $4,547,504 · Arts & CultureLorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation: $4,371,154 · Arts & CultureCIRCUIT PLAYHOUSE INC: $4,191,290 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $17,411,762 · Arts & Culture+10 moreThe Works Inc: $55,959,094 · Housing & ShelterThe Works I…Urban Renaissance Partners Inc: $25,883,554 · Housing & ShelterUrban Renai…+4 more: $4,791,023 · Housing & Shelter+4 moreCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $27,026,667 · HealthCHURCH HEA…PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREATER MEMPHIS REGION INC: $25,076,948 · HealthPLANNED PA…TREZEVANT MANOR FOUNDATION: $6,611,961 · HealthTREZEVANT …ALPHA OMEGA VETERANS SERVICES INC: $5,442,539 · HealthALPHA OMEG…Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation: $4,959,625 · HealthLe Bonheur…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,149,781 · Health+5 more: $6,917,350 · Health+5 moreA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC: $10,208,085 · Human ServicesTHE HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS: $6,752,474 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $5,333,912 · Human ServicesOUTMEMPHIS: $4,303,843 · Human ServicesTREZEVANT EPISCOPAL HOME: $3,414,630 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $2,218,052 · Human ServicesST JAMES FAMILY CENTER: $1,644,111 · Human ServicesAutozoner Assistance Fund Inc: $1,603,000 · Human Services+10 more: $11,375,968 · Human ServicesNeighborhood Preservation Inc: $12,215,540 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $9,589,518 · Community ImprovementVIBRANT MEMPHIS INC: $7,850,641 · Community ImprovementMDCDC INC: $3,875,796 · Community ImprovementSoutheast Regional Development Corp: $3,237,573 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY LIFT CORP: $2,866,500 · Community ImprovementMEMPHIS RIVER PARKS PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,947,668 · Community Improvement+5 more: $4,749,343 · Community Improvement
Education$183,397,096Other$285,611,934Arts & Culture$94,177,181Housing & Shelter$86,633,671Health$79,184,871Human Services$46,854,075Community Improvement$46,332,579

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Works Inc: $55,959,094 over 7y, 60% of budgetPORTER-LEATH: $43,298,013 over 7y, 36% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $27,026,667 over 7y, 29% of budgetUrban Renaissance Partners Inc: $25,883,554 over 6y, 90% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREATER MEMPHIS REGION INC: $25,076,948 over 7y, 45% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $20,350,896 over 7y, 17% of budgetMemphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc: $19,366,023 over 7y, 55% of budgetCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND: $15,579,320 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetCHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY: $15,429,168 over 7y, 14% of budgetLeMoyne-Owen College: $14,483,740 over 7y, 18% of budgetNeighborhood Preservation Inc: $12,215,540 over 5y, 33% of budgetMEMPHIS EQUITY THROUGH ARTS INC: $11,551,684 over 7y, 100% of budgetALZAR SCHOOL INC: $11,540,728 over 7y, 66% of budgetMEMPHIS FOURTH ESTATE INC: $11,376,074 over 7y, 50% of budgetA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC: $10,208,085 over 7y, 74% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $9,589,518 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH: $9,489,883 over 7y, 34% of budgetMEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $8,158,237 over 7y, 41% of budgetVIBRANT MEMPHIS INC: $7,850,641 over 5y, 74% of budgetPEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $7,758,289 over 7y, 34% of budgetMemphis Zoological Society: $7,394,081 over 7y, 39% of budgetMY CITY RIDES: $6,815,000 over 7y, 87% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $6,769,351 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetTHE HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS: $6,752,474 over 7y, 85% of budgetBRIDGES USA INC: $6,726,190 over 7y, 34% of budgetTREZEVANT MANOR FOUNDATION: $6,611,961 over 4y, 30% of budgetTALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC: $6,565,271 over 7y, 8.2% of budgetCOLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE: $6,434,102 over 7y, 51% of budgetWILLIAM R MOORE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $6,320,450 over 7y, 36% of budgetTHE COLLECTIVE BLUEPRINT: $6,185,600 over 6y, 98% of budgetNEW DAY SCHOOLS INC DBA COMPASS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $6,110,499 over 7y, 26% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $5,943,382 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetMemphis Center For Reproductive Health Inc: $5,927,617 over 7y, 41% of budgetST GEORGE'S INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5,669,787 over 7y, 60% of budgetWhole Child Strategies Inc: $5,623,466 over 7y, 77% of budgetPROMISE ACADEMY INC: $5,473,366 over 7y, 25% of budgetALPHA OMEGA VETERANS SERVICES INC: $5,442,539 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetBinghampton Christian Academy Inc: $5,385,576 over 7y, 54% of budgetMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $5,333,912 over 7y, 9.1% of budgetMEMPHIS EDUCATION FUND INC: $5,314,417 over 6y, 36% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $5,309,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF MEMPHIS: $5,286,600 over 7y, 45% of budgetST MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $5,153,607 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetLe Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation: $4,959,625 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetREDZONE MEMPHIS INC: $4,792,879 over 6y, 87% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $4,548,542 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCrosstown Arts: $4,547,504 over 6y, 25% of budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $4,530,710 over 7y, 1.9% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

Jr Hyde III Family Fo…The Kemmons Wilson Fa…United Way of the Mid…Christian Community F…The Assisi Foundation…Thomas W Briggs Found…Jewish Foundation of …The Urban Child Insti…Slingshot Memphis IncPlough FoundationArtsmemphisThomas Garrott Founda…
Jr Hyde III Family FoundationTN146.9× affinity118 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
70report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 2000 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home