· Public charity
Memphis Center City Development Corporation
Assist private development projects
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k10 grants · $297k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $339k
- $250k+1 grant · $445k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOWNTOWN MEMPHIS COMMISSION | $445,298 |
| 400 MAIN LLC | $80,000 |
| ORPHEUM THEATER GROUP | $80,000 |
| 383-385 SOUTH MAIN INVESTORS LLC | $60,000 |
| CALIBER HOMES LLC | $60,000 |
| COREY KLEIN - KLEIN FITNESS | $58,500 |
| MONROE ASSOCIATES LLC | $40,000 |
| H&S PRINTING CO | $37,494 |
| ZIO MATTO LLC | $30,000 |
| AFTER BURNERS CIGAR LOUNGE - MARVIN RODDY | $30,000 |
| DT NUTRITION - CHARLES CAVALLO | $30,000 |
| JEM DINING LLC | $30,000 |
| OLD SOUL FLORAL | $30,000 |
| MEMPHIS FILLING STATION | $30,000 |
| GREAT DANE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY LLC | $25,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 124 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.
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: Mdcdc Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Kresge Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Memphis Center City Development Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Memphis Center City Development Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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