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Hohenberg Charity Trust
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMPHIS JEWISH FEDERATION | $56,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS BAND ENRICHMENT FUND | $20,000 |
| SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MIFA | $10,000 |
| REGIONAL ONE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| PRIZM ENSEMBLE | $10,000 |
| MID SOUTH FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| CHURCH HEALTH CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 0% of your 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.
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 +21% since the first grant, against -41% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2024 · $120k · revenue +72%
- CBCHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +21%
- SFSOULSVILLE FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- MSMEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -2%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS SCHOOL OF MUSIC BLDG FUNDone grant, 2020 · $20k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS BAND ENRICHMENTone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
MBAA inspire, educate and engage artists and audiences towards the creatin of just and equitable communities through forward-thinking experiences. MBAA acknowledge that African American art and culture are living, breathing, and…
Create opportunities for Memphis artists to showcase their music, the City of Memphis, and provide financial relief, when needed, for music professionals.
The Commission is the official city/county economic development agency for film and television. The Commission is not an arts agency, nor is it a trade association. The Commission office works primarily to assist and/or recruit funded…
Bring world-class music to the Memphis Community through concerts and outreach events and provide education and community engagement with the arts.
The memphis food and wine festival ("the festival") was created in 2015 to showcase culinary excellence of local, acclaimed regional, national and international chefs, vintners, and certified sommeliers in order to benefit the memphis…
The purpose of the organization is to promote the enjoyment, understanding, and appreciation of chamber music by the general public through the presentation of concerts in landmark homes and historic sites in Memphis and Shelby County on a…
The mission of opera memphis is to entertain and inspire the people of memphis and the mid-south through the art of opera.
The organization exists to foster and support the creation, performance & appreciation of roots & american music in memphis & the midsouth.
To develop a viable music industry in memphis for the future by providing a structured learning environment to enrich and equip our talents with proven tools to build the next generation of successful music professionals. the consortium…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Memphis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mifa Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 24 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 MEMPHIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIE MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PRIZM ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds MIFA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART ↗
- Who funds HATTILOO THEATRE ↗
- Who funds BEALE STREET CARAVAN 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: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Hohenberg Foundation Inc · Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation · Artsmemphis · Plough Foundation · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation Inc · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · The Pfizer Foundation 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 Hohenberg Charity Trust 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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