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Fleetwood Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
TENNESSEE CAREER ACADEMY INC$125,000
SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC$125,000
ALL FLOURISH INC$100,000
MEMPHIS RIVER PARKS PARTNERSHIP INC$100,000
PORTER-LEATH$100,000
MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC$100,000
CIVIC NEWS COMPANY$75,000
PROMISE ACADEMY$48,300
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.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of Fleetwood Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 80%.

Fleetwood Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc; 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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 INCMEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC: $250,000 · EducationMEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INCCIVIC NEWS COMPANY: $250,000 · EducationCIVIC NEWS COMPANY+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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetMEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC: $250,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCIVIC NEWS COMPANY: $250,000 over 3y, 1.3% 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 budgetALL FLOURISH INC: $100,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetMEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% 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
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 …Christian Community F…Jr Hyde III Family Fo…The Kemmons Wilson Fa…The Urban Child Insti…Thomas W Briggs Found…The McDonnell Family …Crews Family Foundati…Slingshot Memphis IncChildren's Foundation…Great Oaks FoundationCrawford-Howard Priva…
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% 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, 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.

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 22 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The regranting layer
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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