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.

Community Lift Corp

Community Lift Corp at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$180k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$1.4MHousing & Shelter$645kHealth$283kArts & Culture$213kReligion$137kHuman Services$97kCrime & Legal$28kFood & Nutrition$10k

02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k15 grants · $328k
$50k–250k1 grant · $180k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
River City Capital Investment	$180,000
Score CDC	$42,500
Midsouth Genesis CDC	$25,000
Whitehaven Economic Develop	$25,000
Legacy of Legends CDC	$25,000
Alcy Ball CDC	$25,000
Victoria Village CDC	$25,000
United Housing	$25,000
Binghampton Develp Corp	$20,000
Uplift Westwood CDC	$20,000
Klondike Smokey City CDC	$20,000
Blues Cty ComR Jones	$15,000
MINC	$15,000
Black Coalition for Housing	$15,000
Building Memphis	$15,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.4M · 23 repeat orgs$449k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.4M

$294k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%

Still filing today

74%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesCrime & LegalReligionArts & CultureOther

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

RC
River City Capital Investment LLC
2× · 2024–2025 · $540k · revenue +130% · 36% of their budget
PD
PROMISE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
7× · 2017–2024 · $263k · revenue +35%
KS
KLONDIKE SMOKEY CITY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORA
7× · 2018–2025 · $205k · revenue +309% · 44% of their budget

Funded once

RC
River City Capital
one grant, 2020 · $139k
RC
RALEIGH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $38k · revenue +70% · 50% of their budget
MI
MDCDC INC
one grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue -3%

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.

Riverview Kansas Community Development Corporation

We are a nonprofit that provides affordable rental housing in the South Memphis Area in the City of Memphis.

Community Improvement

Westside Community Development Corp

Community Improvement

True Community Development Corporation

The mission of the TCDC is to function as a development engine committed to providing faith-based leadership, housing, and human service, which will serve as a foundation for revitalization and restoration of under-served and underutilized…

Human Services

East Mississippi Development Corporation Meridian Community College

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Jackson Community Development Corp

Our vision is to seek the wholistic wellbeing of the Jackson neighborhood, where residents are known, valued, and empowered to collaborate for the thriving of its people and place.

Community Improvement

The Midtown Community Development Foundation

Philanthropy

Birmingham Development Corporation

Provide 16 units of affordable housing to low to moderate income individuals.

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Village Development Corporation

The mission of the Village Development Corporation is to continually revitalize the community by increasing home hownership, supporting business development, and by eliminating blight.

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Maggie Street Community Development Corporation

To inspire and uplift communities by providing needed resources to improve and and substain communities by assisting in asset building.

Community Improvement

Phoenix Revitalization Corporation

Phoenix Revitalization Corporation (PRC) is a non-profit community development corporation dedicated to the revitalization of neighborhoods by facilitating community improvement projects, and the maintenance and creation of low-income and…

Housing & Shelter

Collaborative Development Corporation

CDC focuses on stabilization, housing and job readiness in order to strengthen both the family and the clients we support. CDC provides housing support, fiscal literacy and job readiness help focusing on credit repair, stabilization and…

Housing & Shelter

Downtown Development Corporation of Tucson Arizona

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Frayser Community Development Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Melodies of Colors. 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

26 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. 26 of the 43 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/26

Grantees still filing

11/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Community Improvement$1,007,010Housing & Shelter$722,837Other$511,103Human Services$253,327Arts & Culture$204,660Religion$142,469Crime & Legal$7,500

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

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.

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.

Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN38.9× affinity19 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lift Corp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Lift Corp. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

9report 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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