· Public charity
Junior League of Memphis
The Junior League of Memphis is an organization of women whose mission is to advance womens leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration and training.
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.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hope House | $30,000 |
| GROW Binghampton and Pre K Readiness | $17,421 |
| SCS Innovative Teaching Grants | $10,198 |
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 (FY22–24, $178k) 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Junior League of Memphis’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 95%.
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 +9% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- COCITY OF MEMPHIS8× · 2017–2024 · $179k
- SISCS Innovative Teaching Grants8× · 2017–2024 · $76k
- CACOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE FUND INC2× · 2022–2023 · $23k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- YHYELLOW HOUSE INCone grant, 2023 · $125k · 97% of their budget
- HCHEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k
- BMBAPTIST MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +41%
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.
5 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. 5 of the 8 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Junior League of Memphis funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Junior League of Memphis. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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