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Lichterman Loewenberg 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $78k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMPHIS JEWISH FEDERATION | $52,000 |
| NATIONAL ORNAMENTAL MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| WOMEN'S FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER MEMPHIS | $15,000 |
| WOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY | $12,500 |
| A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EXCEL CENTER | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MEMPHIS | $10,000 |
| MIFA | $10,000 |
| CARPENTER ART GARDEN | $10,000 |
| EMMANUEL CENTER | $8,000 |
| FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES | $7,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF MEMPHIS | $7,500 |
| ARTS MEMPHIS | $7,500 |
| MADONNA LEARNING CENTER | $7,000 |
| HARDWOOD CENTER | $5,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
69 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 10 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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
- MJMEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER5× · 2017–2021 · $170k · revenue +3%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2022 · $123k · revenue +227%
- WRWOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $73k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- LNLICTHERMAN NATURE CENTERone grant, 2023 · $25k
- LHLAST HOUSE ON THE BLOCKone grant, 2023 · $9k
- MLMEMPHIS LIBRARY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +95%
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.
Memphis tomorrow is an association of ceos of memphis' largest businesses working to promote opportunity and quality of life for all memphians through collective action and public-private partnerships.
Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee
To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.
To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.
To provide housing and services to low, very low, and extremely low income families.
The mission of the urbanart commission is to create opportunities for artists and neighborhoods to connect and shape spaces through public art.
The foundation is executing a strategic business plan that leverages the competitive strengths within the region while expanding the infrastructure, educational opportunities, and entrepreneur support needed to expand entrepreneurship.
Assist private development projects
To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
The memphis zoological society is building one of the world's great zoos in memphis. our staff and volunteers are dedicated to providing a naturalistic and enriching sanctuary for our animals and a clean, friendly, entertaining, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Museum of Memphis Inc and the most unlike its peers is Protect Our Aquifer. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 61. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 106 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 MEMPHIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds HARWOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS MUSEUMS OF SCIENCE & HISTORY ↗
- Who funds CARPENTER ART GARDEN ↗
- Who funds MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association ↗
- Who funds THE OVERTON PARK SHELL INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSMEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS RIVER PARKS PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Randall Museum Friends ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR AGED INC (D/B/A MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME & REHAB) ↗
- Who funds MIFA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds INDIE MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds RAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF THE SOUTH ↗
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 · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Plough Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · United Way of the Mid South · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · The Goldsmith Family Foundation Inc · Self Foundation · Speer Charitable Trust · 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 Lichterman Loewenberg 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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