· Private foundation
Lawrence M & Kerin C Magdovitz Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHOENIX CHAPEL AME CHURCH | $7,040 |
| MEMPHIS INNER CITY RUGBY | $6,000 |
| WEST TENNESSEE STATE GUARD ASSOC | $5,000 |
| WHITE STATION HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| LAUSANNE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LCLAUSANNE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL3× · 2021–2024 · $508k · revenue +40%
- MFMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK2× · 2020–2021 · $8k · revenue +7%
- TWTENNESSEE WILDLIFE RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2019 · $5k · revenue +244%
Funded once
- SCSHELBY COUNTY SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $124k
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +6%- SJSOUTHERN JEWISH CEMETERY ASSOCIATIOone grant, 2022 · $100k
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.
See Disclosure Above.
To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
Letourneau university is a comprehensive institution of christian higher education where educators engage learners to nurture christian virtue, to develop competency and ingenuity in their professional fields, to integrate faith and work,…
To offer research and technology services to support the life sciences, energy, and environmental protection industries. the organization pursues entrepreneurial and collaborative initiatives to develop and maintain a pipeline of…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Bloodwater mission, inc. (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization registered in nashville, tennessee that operates an international nonprofit that partners with african community-driven organizations to end water and hiv/aids…
Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee
To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 33 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 LAUSANNE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Memphis Inner City Rugby ↗
- Who funds CASALUZ ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR AGED INC (D/B/A MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME & REHAB) ↗
- Who funds LOBAKI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Clarksdale Revitalization Inc ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE WILDLIFE RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PIONEER MISSIONS GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds SPRING INITIATIVE INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lawrence M & Kerin C Magdovitz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lawrence M & Kerin C Magdovitz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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