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Give to Live Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS | $100,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE WINDY GAP | $15,000 |
| CARNIVAL EDUCATION FUND | $10,000 |
| WOODLAND PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| GERMANTOWN CHARITY HORSESHOW | $5,000 |
| CHRISTIAN BROTHERS HIGH SCHOOL | $4,500 |
| MAKE A WISH MID SOUTH | $2,500 |
| ED MURPHEY CLASSIC | $2,500 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE - ST LOUIS | $1,500 |
| TENNESSEE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY | $1,500 |
| DELTA WATERFOWL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $1,000 |
| WOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of your 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 30% of Give to Live Foundation’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, 73% of the giving stays in TN; read by stated purpose it is 62% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
Memphis lung physicians foundation, inc. provides quality medical health care regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, or age. memphis lung physicians foundation, inc. specializes in pulmonary, critical care and sleep…
Ducks unlimited, inc. conserves, restores, and manages wetlands and associated habitats for north america's waterfowl. these habitats also benefit additional wildlife and people.
Together we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
The make-a-wish foundation of mississippi chartered (the foundation) is a mississippi nonprofit corporation, organized for the purpose of creating life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
Baptist clinical research institute, inc. engages in and facilitates medical and scientific research and educational activities in clinical areas.
To educate children by engaging them actively in experiences that challenge students to solve problems as cooperative, confident, and responsible learners.
The foundation accepts, manages, and disburses private support to the university of memphis.
The mission of mississippi baptist medical center, inc. is to serve the community through continuously improving quality medical care and effective use of education and technology in a personal and compassionate environment.
Mississippi baptist health systems, inc.'s foundation and tradition is its christian healing ministry. the mission is to serve the community through continuously improving quality medical care and effective use of education and technology…
Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
Baptist memorial hospital-north mississippi, inc. provides quality medical health care regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, or age.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-South Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 22 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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds FOR THE KINGDOM INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CARNIVAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GERMANTOWN CHARITY HORSE SHOW ↗
- Who funds ED MURPHEY CLASSIC INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SchoolSeed Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Give to Live 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.
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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