· Private foundation
Irvin Lansky Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $420k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AGAPE | $100,000 |
| PEER POWER | $75,000 |
| ARISE2READ | $75,000 |
| HOPE WORKS | $70,000 |
| MEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ADVANCE MEMPHIS | $50,000 |
| MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES | $30,000 |
| MID-SOUTH MINORITY TADP INC | $25,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER | $25,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD CHISTIAN CENTER | $25,000 |
| REDZONE MINISTRIES INC | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS | $20,000 |
| FAMILIES MATTERINC | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 0% of those 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.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 0 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- HWHOPE WORKS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $350k · revenue +63%
- AIARISE2READ INC5× · 2020–2024 · $285k · revenue +4%
- NCNEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $145k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHISgraduated2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +51%
- YLYOUTH LEADERSHIP MEMPHIS INCone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
The foundation exists to build god's kingdom by serving donors in the mid-south as they seek to provide resources for god's work in our community and throughout the world.
City leadership's mission is to recruit, develop, and catalyze leaders for the benefit of the city of memphis. the organization was founded in order to maximize the leadership capital and potential of memphis. city leadership strives to…
The federation serves as a central fundraising and allocation agency in the memphis metropolitan area for the benefit of jewish activities and promotes harmony, understanding and good relations among the members of the jewish community and…
The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…
Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee
Assist private development projects
To assist christian community foundation of memphis and the mid-south, inc. in carrying out its charitable mission.
To equip men to initiate and lead for christ in their homes, churches, communities and the marketplace.
Nashville inner city ministry is a christ-centered community organization dedicated to empowering the spiritual, educational and vocational development of at-risk youth and their families.
To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.
To encourage philanthropy and foster leadership among women and support programs that enable women and children to reach their full potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope Works Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 HOPE WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds ARISE2READ INC ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Slingshot Memphis Inc · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Wiseheart Foundation Inc · The Grace Foundation of Memphis Inc · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis · Crews Family Foundation · Thomas Garrott Foundation · The Urban Child Institute
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 Irvin Lansky Foundation 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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