Tennessee · Private foundation
Goodlett 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.
- $354k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Goodlett Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $354k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $365k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $353k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $301k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $226k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $243k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $258k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $282k | 35% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-South Inc | $450,000 | 9 | 1% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $400,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Community Legal Center | $252,000 | 7 | 7% |
| Porter-Leath | $165,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Madonna Learning Center Incorporated | $160,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Mid-South Food Bank | $140,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Mid South Therapy Dogs Inc | $95,000 | 9 | 68% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Greater Memphis | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Harwood Center Inc | $80,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association | $75,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($306k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Goodlett Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · United Way of the Mid South · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Thomas Garrott Foundation · The Urban Child Institute · Plough Foundation · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · Belz Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Memphis
How this is measured
About Goodlett Foundation
- How much does Goodlett Foundation give?
- Goodlett Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $354,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Goodlett Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (45%), Education (14%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Goodlett Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-South Inc ($450k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($400k), Community Legal Center ($252k).
- Does Goodlett Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Goodlett Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Goodlett Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Christian Community Foundation of Memphis, United Way of the Mid South.
- Where is Goodlett Foundation based?
- Goodlett Foundation is based in TN.
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