Tennessee · Public charity
Community Lift Corp
Community LIFT Corporation (Community LIFT) is a non profit community development intermediary whose mission is to revitalize neighborhoods through strategic investment in the areas of human capacity-building and economic and community development.
- $318k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $180,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Community Lift Corp funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $398k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $515k | 41% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $481k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $178k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $92k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $354k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $404k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $413k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $207k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| River City Capital Investment LLC | $540,000 | 2 | 36% |
| Promise Development Corporation | $262,960 | 7 | 3% |
| Klondike Smokey City Community Development Corpora | $204,660 | 7 | 44% |
| Oasis of Hope Inc | $142,469 | 8 | 8% |
| River City Capital | $139,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Victorian Village Inc CDC | $137,220 | 8 | 88% |
| Alcy Ball Development Corporation | $136,242 | 7 | 14% |
| United Housing Inc | $115,915 | 6 | 1% |
| Heights Community Development Corporation | $96,125 | 5 | n/a |
| Frayser Community Development Corporation | $81,920 | 4 | 6% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| River City Capital Investment LLC | $540,000 | 2 | 36% |
| Promise Development Corporation | $262,960 | 7 | 3% |
| Klondike Smokey City Community Development Corpora | $204,660 | 7 | 44% |
| Oasis of Hope Inc | $142,469 | 8 | 8% |
| River City Capital | $139,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Victorian Village Inc CDC | $137,220 | 8 | 88% |
| Alcy Ball Development Corporation | $136,242 | 7 | 14% |
| United Housing Inc | $115,915 | 6 | 1% |
| Heights Community Development Corporation | $96,125 | 5 | n/a |
| Frayser Community Development Corporation | $81,920 | 4 | 6% |
| Building Memphis | $79,350 | 4 | 4% |
| South City Opportunity Revital | $71,327 | 6 | 92% |
| Jacobs Ladder Community Development Corporation | $70,800 | 5 | 11% |
| Midtown Development Corporation | $68,400 | 4 | n/a |
| The Power Center Community Development Corporation | $64,000 | 4 | n/a |
| South Memphis Alliance Inc | $54,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Binghampton Development Corporation | $50,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Score CDC | $42,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Lemoyne-Owen College Community Developement Corporation | $42,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Raleigh Community Development Corp | $38,000 | 1 | 50% |
| Uplift Westwood Community Development Corporation | $35,840 | 2 | n/a |
| Crosstown Memphis CDC | $34,998 | 2 | n/a |
| Nho Management Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Center for Transforming Communities | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Mustard Seed Inc | $26,580 | 2 | n/a |
| Minc | $25,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Whitehaven Economic Development Corporation | $25,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Midsouth Genesis Community Developm | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Legacy of Legends CDC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alliance for Housing Progress | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Blues Cty ComR Jones | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mdcdc Inc | $14,400 | 1 | 0% |
| A Better Whitehaven | $12,800 | 1 | 19% |
| Bluff City Community Development Corporation | $12,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Stone Community Development Corporation | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Law office of Lee E Rankin PC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Needs Incorporated | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cheers Creative LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Townsend Food Services | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Frayser Exchange Club Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Arts Cafe | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Glenview Edgewood Manor Area Association Inc | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Melodies of Colors | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Community Lift Corp supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Building Memphis · United Way of the Mid South · The Kresge Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · Massmutual Foundation Inc · Low Income Investment Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Community Lift Corp
- How much does Community Lift Corp give?
- Community Lift Corp reported 17 grants totaling $317,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Community Lift Corp fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (50%), Housing & Shelter (23%), Health (10%).
- Who are Community Lift Corp's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: River City Capital Investment LLC ($540k), Promise Development Corporation ($263k), Klondike Smokey City Community Development Corpora ($205k).
- Does Community Lift Corp fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Lift Corp?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Building Memphis, United Way of the Mid South.
- Where is Community Lift Corp based?
- Community Lift Corp is based in TN.
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