· Public charity
Jewish Foundation of Memphis
The mission of the JEWISH FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS is to encourage charitable giving, support partner agency endowment development and to build and sustain a virbant jewish community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 126 grants below total $8,225,044 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,959,699 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,734,655 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $266k
- $10k–50k57 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+8 grants · $4.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMPHIS JEWISH FEDERATION | $1,481,594 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $1,122,907 |
| UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM | $576,133 |
| JFS OF MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $415,939 |
| BARON HIRSCH CONGREGATION | $342,987 |
| MARGOLIN HEBREW ACADEMYCYOS | $280,297 |
| BORNBLUM JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $256,177 |
| AHS OF GREATER MEMPHIS FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $194,300 |
| BETH SHOLOM SYNAGOGUE | $179,548 |
| ST GEORGE'S INDEPENDENT SCHOOL | $147,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION | $135,386 |
| JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE | $125,300 |
| LAUSANNE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $123,500 |
| MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL | $111,296 |
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, $6.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 0% for the ones you funded once.
155 repeat relationships — 86 still active in FY2025, 69 since wound down; 26 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $716k 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
- KKAVOD7× · 2017–2024 · $6.0M · revenue ×95 · 42% of their budget
- MJMEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +3%
- BBB'NAI B'RITH HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR AGED INC (D/B/A MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME & REHAB)6× · 2020–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +30%
Funded once
- BRBOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDAone grant, 2017 · $277k
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUISone grant, 2022 · $198k · revenue +10%
- HPHOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $175k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Hadassah Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Promontory Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
234 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. 234 of the 297 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 KAVOD ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR AGED INC (D/B/A MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME & REHAB) ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds LAUSANNE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBY FARMS PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Methodist Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds AHS OF GREATER MEMPHIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA WEST CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION FKA BOCA WEST COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
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 · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Belz Foundation · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Plough Foundation · Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation · United Way of the Mid South · Artsmemphis · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis 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 Jewish Foundation of Memphis 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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