· Private foundation
Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
93% of Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Greater Memphis Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 17 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 26 organizations, $295k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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.
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 |
| EXCEL CENTER | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MEMPHIS | $10,000 |
| CARPENTER ART GARDEN | $10,000 |
| A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MIFA | $10,000 |
| EMMANUEL CENTER | $8,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF MEMPHIS | $7,500 |
| ARTS MEMPHIS | $7,500 |
| FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES | $7,500 |
| MADONNA LEARNING CENTER | $7,000 |
| HARDWOOD CENTER | $5,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $115k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
71 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2025 · $398k · revenue +227%
- MJMEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER5× · 2017–2021 · $170k · revenue +3%
- WFWOMEN'S FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER MEMPHIS8× · 2018–2025 · $81k · revenue +256%
Funded once
- LNLICTHERMAN NATURE CENTERone grant, 2023 · $25k
- LHLAST HOUSE ON THE BLOCKone grant, 2023 · $9k
- MLMEMPHIS LIBRARY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +95%
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.
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.
To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.
To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.
The mission of the urbanart commission is to create opportunities for artists and neighborhoods to connect and shape spaces through public art.
To provide housing and services to low, very low, and extremely low income families.
Assist private development projects
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…
To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
To work in partnership with the shelby county school district and the achievement school district on strategies that support school improvement, development, and implementation of initiatives focused on increasing k-12 educational outcomes…
How this is measured
56 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. 56 of the 109 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds HARWOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS MUSEUMS OF SCIENCE & HISTORY ↗
- Who funds MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CARPENTER ART GARDEN ↗
- Who funds ARTSMEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds THE OVERTON PARK SHELL INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association ↗
- Who funds MIFA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Randall Museum Friends ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS RIVER PARKS PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR AGED INC (D/B/A MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME & REHAB) ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds RAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds INDIE 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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