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Givinga Foundation Inc
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 424 grants below total $8,509,507 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,091,205 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,581,698 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k188 grants · $1.3M
- $10k–50k210 grants · $3.6M
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOGETHER WE THRIVE FOUNDATION | $950,000 |
| RED WING ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER | $265,900 |
| MEMPHIS-SHELBY CRIME COMMISSION | $252,000 |
| PERCENT IMPACT FOUNDATION | $179,886 |
| SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC | $172,675 |
| GLOBAL GIVING | $160,637 |
| GIVINGA FOUNDATION | $144,641 |
| MEMPHIS INNER CITY RUGBY | $110,000 |
| MEMPHIS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $105,000 |
| MEANING FOUNDATION | $103,130 |
| FIRST TENNESSEE DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT FOUNDATION | $101,875 |
| READING IS FUNDAMENTAL | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE GOODHUE COUNTY FAIR | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM | $85,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $3.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
229 repeat relationships — 183 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 227 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.3M 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
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +37%- HFHOPE FOR THE DAY4× · 2021–2024 · $808k · revenue +0% · 51% of their budget
- TETRANS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC4× · 2021–2024 · $382k · revenue +27% · 61% of their budget
Funded once
- ICINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CLUBHOUSE DEVELOPMENT INCone grant, 2023 · $235k · revenue -38%
- TBTHE BOOT CAMPAIGN INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $232k · revenue +36%
- PAPROMOTING AMWARENESS VICTIM EMPOWERMENTone grant, 2021 · $205k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
718 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. 718 of the 839 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.
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds Games For Love ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE THRIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR THE DAY ↗
- Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds TRANS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HILARITY FOR CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds RED WING ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEMPHISSHELBY CRIME COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds COMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CLUBHOUSE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOOT CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GOODHUE COUNTY FAIR ↗
- Who funds PERCENT IMPACT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STREET DREAMZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation ↗
- Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GOODHUEWABASHA & PIERCE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds RISEUP PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds VISIT ORG PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds GIVINGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation · The Jones Family Foundation · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · LPL Financial Foundation Inc · Eastman Credit Union · The Assisi Foundation of 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 Givinga 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Anchor House Inc — 45% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- North Shore Community Action Programs Inc — 12% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Catholic Charities Diocese of Metuchen — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Compass Working Capital Inc — 1% of income from government
- Open Storehouse Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Goucher College — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Buckingham Browne & Nichols School — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% 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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