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Formanek 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $156k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+11 grants · $6.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH VILLAGES | $1,300,000 |
| BROOKS MUSEUM | $1,000,000 |
| CHURCH HEALTH CENTER | $750,000 |
| RIVERFRONT DEVELOPMENT | $600,000 |
| JUST CITY | $466,000 |
| PURE ACADEMY | $400,000 |
| MUSO | $400,000 |
| LWALA | $300,000 |
| JACARANDA HEALTH | $250,000 |
| HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES | $250,000 |
| HEALTHY LEARNERS | $250,000 |
| INTEGRATE HEALTH | $200,000 |
| CEO WORKS | $175,000 |
| COMMUNITY LIFT | $165,000 |
| TNTP | $157,927 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $4.2M) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
YOUTH VILLAGES INC3× · 2022–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +66%- CHCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC4× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +26%
- MIMUSO INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +31%
Funded once
- AFALLIANCE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- ALASPETUCK LAND TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $282k · revenue -39%
- SMSLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INCone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -24%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
America's watershed initiative serves as a trusted voice that brings partners together and champions sound science to secure a future in which the rivers and people of the mississippi river watershed thrive.
To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Transform east african communities by providing access to clean well water and water systems.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
To foster a sustainable network of community health workers and to train frontline public health professionals who possess a deep understanding of and strong ties to the local community.
Middle east investment initiative, inc. (meii) stimulates sustainable economic activity and long-lasting job creation in the middle east and north africa (mena) by designing and deploying finance and technical assistance programs to…
Bloodwater mission, inc. (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization registered in nashville, tennessee that operates an international nonprofit that partners with african community-driven organizations to end water and hiv/aids…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iris Orchestra Inc and the most unlike its peers is E Fay Jones Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 68 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
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.
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS RIVER PARKS PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds MUSO INC ↗
- Who funds Just City Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY LEARNERS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LIFT CORP ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Protect Our Aquifer ↗
- Who funds ASPETUCK LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds E FAY JONES CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SASAMANI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TNTP INC ↗
- Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds IRIS ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds Educate ↗
- Who funds SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FISTULA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation · Self Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · The McDonnell Family Foundation · Rose Montgomery Johnston Family Foundation · Slingshot Memphis Inc
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 Formanek Foundation 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.
- Aspetuck Land Trust — 28% of income from government
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.
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