· Private foundation
Irvin Lansky Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER | $25,000 |
| MID-SOUTH MINORITY TADP INC | $25,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD CHISTIAN CENTER | $25,000 |
| REDZONE MINISTRIES INC | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS | $20,000 |
| FAMILIES MATTERINC | $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.
Its 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. 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Irvin Lansky Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Irvin Lansky Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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