· Private foundation
First Horizon Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 92 grants below total $4,432,602 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $15,709,765 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,277,163 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k68 grants · $138k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $310k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST HORIZON BANK | $3,210,000 |
| ARTSMEMPHIS | $600,000 |
| BOBBY DODD INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF | $75,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF | $30,000 |
| CAMPBELL CLINIC FOUNDATION" | $25,000 |
| AG GASTON BUSINESS INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| CBHS | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MEMPHIS" | $25,000 |
| DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON" | $22,000 |
| COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC" | $15,000 |
| BOBBY DODD INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| SOLOMON HOUSE | $12,500 |
| DISCH-DECLOUET SOCIAL SERVICE CTR | $12,500 |
| DOGWOOD ARTS, INC" | $12,500 |
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.
81 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2023, 50 since wound down; 58 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M went to new ones.
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
- OHOPERATION HOPE INC.2× · 2021–2022 · $3.0M
- AARTSMEMPHIS2× · 2021–2023 · $1.1M
- CBCHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY2× · 2021–2022 · $452k
Funded once
- RCRHODES COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $500k
- BHBALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $315k
- MCMEMPHIS CHAMBER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $300k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2021–2023.
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 2021–2023, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 742 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.
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