· Public charity
Mdcdc Inc
The Memphis Medical District Collaborative (MDCDC) is a community development organization.
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 $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Malone Park Commons | $15,300 |
| Groovy Gratitude | $14,000 |
| The Blue Room Foundation Inc | $12,500 |
| Rock N Dough | $12,500 |
| EL2 LLC | $12,233 |
| Riko's Kickin Chicken | $10,000 |
| Sundara Wellness Centr | $9,430 |
| Zapstone Properties | $7,500 |
| Memphis Made Brewing Co LLC | $6,500 |
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 (FY17–20, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +1505% since the first grant, against -23% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 9 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EAEDGE ALLEY LLC2× · 2017–2020 · $52k
- THTHE HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS2× · 2017–2020 · $27k · revenue ×16
- CFCRUMP FOOD MART2× · 2019–2020 · $15k
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIESone grant, 2019 · $114k · revenue -35%
- MBMEMPHIS BIOWORKS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $112k · revenue -100%
- ATADULT TEEN CHALLENGE MEMPHISone grant, 2019 · $39k
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.
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How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 82 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.
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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 · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Memphis Center City Development Corporation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mdcdc Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mdcdc Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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