· Private foundation
Hw Durham Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $325k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED CHURCH HOMES | $60,000 |
| 901 PETALS OF PURPOSE | $60,000 |
| CHURCH HEALTH CENTER | $35,500 |
| CREATIVE AGING MEMPHIS | $33,031 |
| FORWARD MEMPHIS | $30,316 |
| MIFA | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER | $30,000 |
| MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM | $25,850 |
| PET COMPASSION CENTER | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY JACKSON TN | $25,000 |
| REGIONAL INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION | $22,970 |
| SPAY MEMPHIS | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $15,000 |
| DYER COUNTY OFFICE ON AGING | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $517k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
30 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k 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
- MFMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK7× · 2017–2025 · $337k · revenue +139%
- CHCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $193k · revenue +86%
- CLCOMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $162k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- RRRESOURCE REDISTRIBUTION MINISTRYone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -75% · 66% of their budget
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MEMPHISone grant, 2017 · $38k
- DKDAVID KABAKOFFWESLEY SR MINISTRIESone grant, 2017 · $29k
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.
Provide housing and services as a licensed residential home for the aged.
To provide housing and services to low, very low, and extremely low income elderly.
Provides information and assistance services, transportation services, and outreach services to seniors 60+. the staff of the senior center works with other agencies to assist the elderly of monroe county, tn.
Retirement and nursing home care
Wesley at murray, inc. is a not-for-profit general welfare corporation formed in february 2001, in accordance with the not-for-profit statutes of the commonwealth of kentucky. the corporation was formed for the purpose of operating a…
Provide services to senior citizens
Provide quality lifestyle options and services to senior adults that encourage independence, individuality and privacy, while creating both economic value and life enrichment opportunities for all those we serve.
Wesley housing corporation of memphis, inc. is a tennessee not-for-profit corporation which provides property management, development, and related services. as of december 31, 2023, management, development, and related services are…
To provide housing and services to low, very low, and extremely low income families.
Housing and services for the elderly
Carelink connects older people and their families with resources to meet the opportunities and challenges of aging. we accomplish this by providing in-home services to help homebound older people live in their own homes as long as…
The organization provides support to low income elderly in jackson, ms by helping them retain their independence for as long as possible. the organization serves residents over 60 years of age by providing food, medicine, clothing and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Library Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dyer County Office on Aging Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 57. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 66 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 MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MIFA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Homes for Hearts ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE REDISTRIBUTION MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN CROSS SENIOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds 901 PETALS OF PURPOSE ↗
- Who funds FORWARD MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHURCH HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTION ASSOCIATION INC DBA SPAY MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds THE BADDOUR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE PET COMPASSION CENTERS ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR AGED INC (D/B/A MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME & REHAB) ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE AGING MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds ELMWOOD CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds AVE MARIA HOME INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DELTAARTS INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY MID-SOUTH 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 · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Plough Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Mary Galloway Home · Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · Belz Foundation · United Way of the Mid South · Speer Charitable Trust
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 Hw Durham 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 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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