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Delta Boule Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$66kHuman Services$30kArts & Culture$30kYouth Development$20kCrime & Legal$10kHealth$10kCommunity Improvement$5kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$150k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARMONIC SOUTH STRINGS ORCHESTRA$5,000
PURE ACADEMY$5,000
SECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$5,000
YOUNG ACTORS GUILD$5,000
SOUTH CITY MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER$5,000
ROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS$5,000
MEMPHIS CHALLENGE$5,000
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 (FY20–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%TENNESSEE YOUTH COURTS: $10k → 14%TENNESSEE YOUTH COURTS: $5k → 14%A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $10k → 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.
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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35k · 3 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
15

Total granted

$35k
$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+10%

Still filing today

67%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TY
    TENNESSEE YOUTH COURTS INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue -36%
  • MC
    Memphis Challenge Inc
    2× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +16%
  • PA
    PURE ACADEMY
    2× · 2023–2025 · $10k

Funded once

  • LC
    LeMoyne-Owen College
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +7%
  • GI
    GIRLS INCORPORATED OF MEMPHIS
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -26%
  • LM
    LITERACY MID-SOUTH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +412%
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
One Family Memphis
Human Services
2
Children's Foundation of Memphis
Health
3
Memphis Slim Collaboratory Inc
Arts & Culture
4
Memphis Tomorrow

Memphis tomorrow is an association of ceos of memphis' largest businesses working to promote opportunity and quality of life for all memphians through collective action and public-private partnerships.

Community Improvement
5
Mayor's Institute for Excellence in Government Inc

Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee

Public Benefit
6
Memphis Youth Arts Initiative

Art youth initiatives

Arts & Culture
7
Memphis Grizzlies Charitable
Philanthropy
8
Leadership Middle Tennessee Inc

Leadership Middle Tennessee conducts a series of 10 monthly day-and-a-half issues focused sessions designed to give participants a greater understanding of critical issues in Middle Tennessee.

Public Benefit
9
Girls Write Nashville

Girls write nashville empowers expression through songwriting, production, mentorship and creative community for teen artists. we are an artist and educator-led 501(c)(3) creative youth development program in nashville, tn allied with…

Arts & Culture
10
Memphis Inner City Rugby

MICR is on a mission to close the opportunity gap, create a relentlessly supportive community, and drive upward mobility in under-resourced communities across Memphis.

Youth Development
11
The Grace Foundation of Memphis Inc
Philanthropy
12
Reach Memphis

Reach memphis helps high achieving students from shelby county public schools succeed in high school, college and beyond using a continuum of services including summer educational experiences, college readiness planning and counseling, and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Challenge Inc; the most unlike its peers is Young Actors Guild Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GIRLS INCORPORATED OF MEMPHIS: $20,000 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATED OF MEMPHISMemphis Challenge Inc: $10,000 · OtherMemphis Challenge IncLITERACY MID-SOUTH INC: $10,000 · OtherLITERACY MID-SOUTH INCJuvenile Intervention & Faith-based Follow-up: $10,000 · OtherJuvenile Intervention & Faith-based Follow-upPURE ACADEMY: $10,000 · OtherPURE ACADEMYTEES: $5,000 · OtherHARMONIC SOUTH STRINGS ORCHESTRA: $5,000 · OtherGREATER MEMPHIS FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT: $5,000 · OtherBRACED: $5,000 · OtherSECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherLEMOYNE-OWEN COLLEGE ALUMNI FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP: $5,000 · OtherHEAL 901: $5,000 · OtherTENNESSEE SICKLE CELL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $1,250 · OtherLeMoyne-Owen College: $30,000 · EducationLeMoyne-Owen CollegeSouth City Museum and Cultural Center: $5,000 · EducationSouth City Museum and C…YOUNG ACTORS GUILD INC: $5,000 · EducationYOUNG ACTORS GUILD INCTENNESSEE YOUTH COURTS INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesTENNESSEE YOUTH C…Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $10,000 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Inte…A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesA STEP AHEAD FOUN…KUDZUKIAN MEDIA GROUP: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMID-SOUTH PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$101,250Education$40,000Human Services$30,000Arts & Culture$15,000Housing & Shelter$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLeMoyne-Owen College: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF MEMPHIS: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTENNESSEE YOUTH COURTS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetMemphis Challenge Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLITERACY MID-SOUTH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG ACTORS GUILD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMID-SOUTH PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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 …Women's Foundation fo…Baptist Memorial Heal…United Way of the Mid…Jr Hyde III Family Fo…Christian Community F…Gilliland Family Fund…Slingshot Memphis IncThomas W Briggs Found…The Kemmons Wilson Fa…Jewish Foundation of …The Pfizer Foundation…
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN27.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis · Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation · United Way of the Mid South · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Gilliland Family Fund Inc · Slingshot Memphis Inc · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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 Delta Boule Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Delta Boule Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Delta Boule Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Delta Boule Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 23 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-PF 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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