· Public charity
Memphis Center City Development Corporation
Assist private development projects
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $1,081,292 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,118,228 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $36,936 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k10 grants · $297k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $339k
- $250k+1 grant · $445k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOWNTOWN MEMPHIS COMMISSION | $445,298 |
| ORPHEUM THEATER GROUP | $80,000 |
| 400 MAIN LLC | $80,000 |
| CALIBER HOMES LLC | $60,000 |
| 383-385 SOUTH MAIN INVESTORS LLC | $60,000 |
| COREY KLEIN - KLEIN FITNESS | $58,500 |
| MONROE ASSOCIATES LLC | $40,000 |
| H&S PRINTING CO | $37,494 |
| MEMPHIS FILLING STATION | $30,000 |
| AFTER BURNERS CIGAR LOUNGE - MARVIN RODDY | $30,000 |
| JEM DINING LLC | $30,000 |
| ZIO MATTO LLC | $30,000 |
| DT NUTRITION - CHARLES CAVALLO | $30,000 |
| OLD SOUL FLORAL | $30,000 |
| GREAT DANE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY LLC | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $516k 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
- DMDOWNTOWN MEMPHIS COMMISSION3× · 2018–2025 · $763k
- 4M400 Main LLC3× · 2023–2025 · $240k
- MAMonroe Associates LLC3× · 2021–2025 · $180k
Funded once
- SGSERVICEMASTER GLOBAL HOLDINGS INCone grant, 2018 · $1.0M
- 9F99-105 Front Street LLCone grant, 2021 · $650k
- MBMemphis Brooks Museum of Art Incone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -10%
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.
To promote the economic development, cultural activities, recreational choices, and historical integrity of Midtown Memphis.
Paint Memphis builds community one wall at a time through public art and our arts education program expanding access and arts education to all Memphians regardless of their location identity socio-economic status or ability. We engage over…
The Works, Inc. rebuilds, restores, and renews Memphis neighborhoods through innovation, advocacy and collaboration.
To keep history alive in the Memphis, TN area by stimulating an appreciation for the areas heritage and preserve its historic places
To enhance the power and capacity of communities through community organizing and arts based programming.
The mission of the urbanart commission is to create opportunities for artists and neighborhoods to connect and shape spaces through public art.
MBAA inspire, educate and engage artists and audiences towards the creatin of just and equitable communities through forward-thinking experiences. MBAA acknowledge that African American art and culture are living, breathing, and…
My city rides makes reliable transportation affordable and ownership possible for those in the workforce with limited means but unlimited potential, increasing opportunity for everyone.
BLDG Memphis drives investments in Memphis neighborhoods thru building capacity in supporting revitalization of Memphis neighborhods thru public policy development & advocacy, organizational capacity building & community education.
Crosstown arts is a contemporary arts organization dedicated to further cultivating the creative community in memphis. managing a variety of exhibition, performance, and production spaces, crosstown arts supports artists, musicians, and…
The mission of the Memphis Rock N Soul Museum is to preserve and tell the is to preserve and tell the story of Memphis Music and to perpetuate its legacy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Explore Bike Shareinc and the most unlike its peers is Vance Avenue Youth Development Ctr. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 124 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.
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: Mdcdc Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Kresge Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Memphis Center City Development Corporation 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.