Tennessee · Public charity
Memphis Education Fund Inc
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 in the greater memphis, tn area.
- $4.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $93,120
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $883,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 63% of the organizations Memphis Education Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $4.1M | 39% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $3.1M | 63% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $2.6M | 38% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $2.3M | 44% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $2.9M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $5.6M | 41% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $7.3M | 31% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $8.5M | 69% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teach for America Inc | $6,536,173 | 4 | 1% |
| Memphis Lift Parent Institute | $3,500,000 | 7 | 80% |
| Tennessee Charter School Center | $2,625,000 | 7 | 53% |
| New Leaders Inc | $2,310,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Relay Graduate School of Education | $2,068,979 | 4 | 1% |
| 50can Inc | $1,960,000 | 7 | 4% |
| City Year Inc | $1,803,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Education Reform Now Inc | $1,775,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Lee Inc | $1,516,668 | 5 | 2% |
| Rhodes College | $1,219,950 | 4 | 1% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Memphis Education Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · City Fund · 50can Inc · The Urban Child Institute · New Schools Fund · Gates Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Silicon Schools Fund Inc · Louis Calder Foundation
How this is measured
About Memphis Education Fund Inc
- How much does Memphis Education Fund Inc give?
- Memphis Education Fund Inc reported 19 grants totaling $4,128,834 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Memphis Education Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Public Benefit (1%), Civil Rights (0%).
- Who are Memphis Education Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Teach for America Inc ($6.5M), Memphis Lift Parent Institute ($3.5M), Tennessee Charter School Center ($2.6M).
- Does Memphis Education Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Memphis Education Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Jr Hyde III Family Foundation, Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund.
- Where is Memphis Education Fund Inc based?
- Memphis Education Fund Inc is based in TN.
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