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Fleetwood Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.8M
Granted FY2023
27
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202023.

Education$3.8MPhilanthropy$2.5MInternational$1.0MHuman Services$830kArts & Culture$800kCivil Rights$600kPublic Benefit$250kRecreation & Sports$200k
02FY2023 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $319k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
$75,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART INC$400,000
MAN UP TEACHER FELLOWS INC$350,000
MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TR INC$250,000
NEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE$200,000
ALLMEMPHIS INC$180,000
PROMISE ACADEMY$160,166
PROMISE ACADEMY$151,082
SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC$125,000
TENNESSEE CAREER ACADEMY INC$125,000
MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC$100,000
PORTER-LEATH$100,000
ALL FLOURISH INC$100,000
MEMPHIS RIVER PARKS PARTNERSHIP INC$100,000
CIVIC NEWS COMPANY$75,000
PROMISE ACADEMY$48,300
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ALL FLOURISH INC: $100k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $200k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Fleetwood Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in TN; read by stated purpose it is 80% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Fleetwood Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.7M · 12 repeat orgs$819k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
3

Total granted

$6.7M
$244k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+4%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $575k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • PA
    PROMISE ACADEMY INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +1%
  • MU
    MAN UP TEACHER FELLOWS INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $925k · revenue +340% · 61% of their budget
  • MB
    Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $800k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • YOUTH VILLAGES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +101%
  • CITY YEAR INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +4%
  • FC
    FRAYSER COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2020 · $19k · revenue -65%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
City Leadership

City leadership's mission is to recruit, develop, and catalyze leaders for the benefit of the city of memphis. the organization was founded in order to maximize the leadership capital and potential of memphis. city leadership strives to…

Public Benefit
2
Lead Public Schools Inc

Lead public schools exists to prepare all our students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and in life.

Education
3
Communities in Schools of Tennessee

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
4
Memphis Academy of Science and Engineeri

To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community

Education
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
Partners in School Innovation

To transform teaching and learning in the lowest-performing public schools so that every student, regardless of background, thrives.

Philanthropy
7
Leadership Tennessee Inc

Leadership tennessee fosters collaborative, non-partisan dialogue on issues of state importance, by connecting and deploying a network of diverse leaders and engaged citizens.

Public Benefit
8
Great Mn Schools

We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.

Education
9
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
10
Tennesseans for Quality Early Education

To advance state policies and practices that ensure all tennessee children from birth through 3rd grade get the high quality early education they need to power our state's future.

Education
11
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
12
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lifeline to Success Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

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

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PROMISE ACADEMY INC — $1,331,372 · EducationPROMISE ACADEMY INCMAN UP TEACHER FELLOWS INC — $925,000 · EducationMAN UP TEACHER FELLOWS INCINSTRUCTION PARTNERS — $540,000 · EducationINSTRUCTION PARTNERSALLMEMPHIS INC — $349,715 · EducationALLMEMPHIS INCCIVIC NEWS COMPANY — $250,000 · EducationCIVIC NEWS COMPANYMEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC — $250,000 · EducationMEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC+4 more — $377,332 · Education+4 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC — $2,230,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS…SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC — $1,025,000 · PhilanthropySLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INCTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC — $160,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $80,000 · PhilanthropyMemphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc — $800,000 · Arts & CultureMemphis B…NEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE — $600,000 · Civil RightsPORTER-LEATH — $400,000 · OtherLIFELINE TO SUCCESS INC — $130,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INC — $25,000 · OtherYOUTH VILLAGES INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesALL FLOURISH INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesMEMPHIS RIVER PARKS PARTNERSHIP INC — $200,000 · Community Improvement
Education$4,023,419Philanthropy$3,495,000Arts & Culture$800,000Civil Rights$600,000Other$555,000Human Services$300,000Community Improvement$200,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC — $2,230,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPROMISE ACADEMY INC — $1,331,372 over 3y, 12% of budgetSLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC — $1,025,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetMAN UP TEACHER FELLOWS INC — $925,000 over 4y, 61% of budgetMemphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc — $800,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE — $600,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetINSTRUCTION PARTNERS — $540,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPORTER-LEATH — $400,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetALLMEMPHIS INC — $349,715 over 3y, 16% of budgetCIVIC NEWS COMPANY — $250,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC — $250,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMEMPHIS RIVER PARKS PARTNERSHIP INC — $200,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC — $160,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $133,332 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetALL FLOURISH INC — $100,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRAYSER COMMUNITY SCHOOLS — $19,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN26.8× 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 · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · The Urban Child Institute · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The McDonnell Family Foundation · Crews Family Foundation · Slingshot Memphis Inc · Children's Foundation of Memphis · Great Oaks Foundation · Crawford-Howard Private Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Fleetwood Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • City Year Inc11% of 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
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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