Tennessee · Private foundation
Memphis Grizzlies Charitable
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.
- $159k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $818k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Memphis Grizzlies Charitable funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k 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 | 16 | $159k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $242k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $251k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $276k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $370k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $807k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $850k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $717k | 42% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reach Memphis | $552,782 | 9 | 19% |
| Youth Villages Inc | $275,000 | 9 | 0% |
| New Ballet Ensemble Inc | $238,400 | 9 | 3% |
| Indie Memphis | $192,100 | 8 | 10% |
| Codecrew | $181,785 | 6 | 7% |
| Memphis Grizzlies Preparatory Charter School Inc | $105,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Streets Ministries Inc | $105,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc | $85,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Mid-South Inc | $75,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Latino Memphis Inc | $62,500 | 2 | 5% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Memphis Grizzlies Charitable supplied at peak.
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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 · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Crews Family Foundation · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · United Way of the Mid South · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Slingshot Memphis Inc · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis · Thomas Garrott Foundation
How this is measured
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About Memphis Grizzlies Charitable
- How much does Memphis Grizzlies Charitable give?
- Memphis Grizzlies Charitable reported 16 grants totaling $159,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Memphis Grizzlies Charitable fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (51%), Human Services (15%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Memphis Grizzlies Charitable's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Reach Memphis ($553k), Youth Villages Inc ($275k), New Ballet Ensemble Inc ($238k).
- Does Memphis Grizzlies Charitable fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Memphis Grizzlies Charitable accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Memphis Grizzlies Charitable?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Christian Community Foundation of Memphis, Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc.
- Where is Memphis Grizzlies Charitable based?
- Memphis Grizzlies Charitable is based in TN.
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