· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PRIZM ENSEMBLE | $10,000 |
| MIFA | $10,000 |
| SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| REGIONAL ONE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MID SOUTH FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| CHURCH HEALTH CENTER | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against -41% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hohenberg Charity Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hohenberg Charity Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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