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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 FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.2MEducation$381kHuman Services$376kCrime & Legal$292kFood & Nutrition$140kYouth Development$125kReligion$52kHousing & Shelter$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$50,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-SOUTH$50,000
WOODLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$25,000
PORTER LEATH$25,000
LE BONHEUR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$25,000
MADONNA LEARNING CENTER$25,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TN$20,000
MID-SOUTH THERAPY DOGS$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MEMPHIS$20,000
MOST - MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST$15,000
PEER POWER FOUNDATION$15,000
MEMPHIS INNER CITY RUGBY$10,000
LITERACY MID-SOUTH$10,000
YOUTH VILLAGES$10,000
MIFA - METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $373k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%THISTLE AND BEE ENTERPRISES: $900 → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $52k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $40k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $40k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $40k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $40k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $20k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $20k → 17%MIFA - METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%MIFA - METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%MIFA - METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%MIFA - METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%MIFA - METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%MIFA - METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%MIFA - METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%MIFA - METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%MIFA - METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%YMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH: $10k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $10k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $10k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $10k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGE: $5k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 31 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
11

Total granted

$2.5M
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+2%

Still filing today

74%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-SOUTH INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +26%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $400k · revenue +145%
  • CL
    COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER
    7× · 2017–2023 · $252k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • OP
    OVERTON PARK CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +2%
  • MS
    MID SOUTH SOBER LIVING
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • BF
    BOOKS FROM BIRTH INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
2
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
3
Children's Foundation of Memphis
Health
4
Mississippi Methodist Hospital Rehabilitation Center Inc

In response to the love of god, the methodist rehabilitation center, is dedicated to the restoration and enhancement of the lives of those we serve. we are committed to excellence and leadership in the delivery of comprehensive…

Health
5
Mental Health Cooperative Inc

Mental health cooperative inc. (mhc) provides integrated health services that include behavioral health care, primary health care, addiction services, and community-based care management. mhc also provides emergency psychiatric services…

Health
6
The Children's Museum of Memphis Inc

The mission is to create memorable learning experiences through the joy of play, in hands-on exhibits and programs. we accomplish this mission by reaching out to the mid-south school children, families, and the tourist visitor.

Arts & Culture
7
One Family Memphis
Human Services
8
Ut Medical Group Inc

To be a successful physician led, professionally managed medical practice that benefits our patients and our community, while supporting the UT Health Science Center's mission through clinical excellence, financial responsibility and a…

Health
9
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
10
Michael Dunn Center

To empower individuals living with disabilities and challenges to gain independence

Human Services
11
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis, Inc. sees a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children. They provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and…

Health
12
Memphis Recovery Centers Inc

Memphis recovery centers, inc. (mrc) provides compassionate treatment services for youth and adults suffering from substance addiction and co-occurring disorders, utilizing professional methods to improve spiritual, physical, emotional,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-South Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
23/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-SOUTH INC: $450,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-SOUTH IN…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $400,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCMID SOUTH THERAPY DOGS INC: $95,000 · HealthMID SOUTH THERAPY DOGS INC+6 more: $51,250 · HealthPORTER-LEATH: $165,000 · OtherPORTER-LEATHLE BONHEUR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $95,000 · OtherLE BONHEUR CHILDREN'S HOSPITA…HARWOOD CENTER INC: $80,000 · OtherHARWOOD CENTER INCLITERACY MID-SOUTH INC: $65,000 · OtherLITERACY MID-SOUTH INCRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $55,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEWOODLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $45,000 · OtherWOODLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH+17 more: $180,450 · Other+17 moreCOMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $252,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY LEGAL …Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $75,000 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Int…YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES I…+2 more: $10,900 · Human ServicesMADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED: $160,000 · EducationMADONNA LEAR…MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC: $70,000 · EducationMEMPHIS OPPO…THE PEER POWER FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · EducationTHE PEER POW…+1 more: $5,000 · EducationMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $140,000 · Food & NutritionBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentMemphis Inner City Rugby: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentMEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $35,000 · Crime & Legal
Health$996,250Other$685,450Human Services$372,900Education$295,000Food & Nutrition$140,000Youth Development$110,000Crime & Legal$35,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-SOUTH INC: $450,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $400,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $252,000 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetPORTER-LEATH: $165,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED: $160,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $140,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMID SOUTH THERAPY DOGS INC: $95,000 over 9y, 68% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHARWOOD CENTER INC: $80,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $75,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC: $70,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetLITERACY MID-SOUTH INC: $65,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetTHE PEER POWER FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $35,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMemphis Inner City Rugby: $30,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetBAPTIST MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity: $10,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetBOOKS FROM BIRTH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMethodist Healthcare Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOROTHY DAY HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCARPENTER ART GARDEN: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MEMPHIS: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetLE BONHEUR CLUB INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART: $750 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-SOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PORTER-LEATH ↗
  • Who funds MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds MID SOUTH THERAPY DOGS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS ↗
  • Who funds HARWOOD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association ↗
  • Who funds MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY MID-SOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PEER POWER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
  • Who funds Memphis Inner City Rugby ↗
  • Who funds BAPTIST MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MEMPHIS ↗
  • Who funds OVERTON PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ↗
  • Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
  • Who funds BOOKS FROM BIRTH INC ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Methodist Healthcare Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DOROTHY DAY HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
  • Who funds CARPENTER ART GARDEN ↗

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…United Way of the Mid…Thomas W Briggs Found…The Kemmons Wilson Fa…Jr Hyde III Family Fo…Thomas Garrott Founda…The Urban Child Insti…Plough FoundationThe Assisi Foundation…Belz FoundationJewish Foundation of …
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN43× affinity20 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 · 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
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 Goodlett Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Goodlett Foundation. 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 →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report 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 45 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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