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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 FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.2MHuman Services$656kArts & Culture$627kYouth Development$378kCommunity Improvement$125kInternational$64kCivil Rights$60kAnimals$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $125k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$818k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH VILLAGES$20,000
REACH MEMPHIS$20,000
JUVENILE INTERVENTION & FAITH-BASED FOLLOW-UP INC$15,000
UCAN OF MEMPHIS$15,000
STREETS MINISTRIES$15,000
PEER POWER FOUNDATION$10,000
NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE & SCHOOL$10,000
MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL INC$10,000
HOPE CENTER$10,000
WORLD RELIEF MEMPHIS$7,500
INDIE MEMPHIS$7,500
MEMPHIS INNER CITY RUGBY$5,000
MEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM$5,000
THE GENTLEMEN'S LEAGUE$5,000
MEMPHIS YOUTH ARTS INITIATIVE$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $498k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 18%REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM: $50k → 17%REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM: $5k → 17%STREETS MINISTRIES INC: $25k → 17%STREETS MINISTRIES INC: $20k → 17%STREETS MINISTRIES INC: $20k → 17%STREETS MINISTRIES: $15k → 17%STREETS MINISTRIES: $15k → 17%STREETS MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $50k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $50k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $50k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $25k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $20k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $20k → 17%LATINO MEMPHIS: $60k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $20k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $20k → 17%LATINO MEMPHIS: $3k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $20k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 38 repeat orgs$461k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
25

Total granted

$4.0M
$456k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+70%

Still filing today

63%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • YOUTH VILLAGES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $275k · revenue +140%
  • C
    CODECREW
    6× · 2017–2023 · $182k · revenue +380%
  • SM
    STREETS MINISTRIES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • GP
    GRIZZLIES PREP CHARTER SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $60k
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER MEMPHIS
    one grant, 2017 · $59k
  • MZ
    Memphis Zoological Societygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +70%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
One Family Memphis
Human Services
2
Memphis Rise Academy Inc

To provide students in grades 6-12 with an excellent education, preparing them to pursue ambitious goals and succeed in college.

Education
3
Memphis Connect

To empower at risk youth through community dev.

Youth Development
4
Children's Foundation of Memphis
Health
5
Repairing the Breach Memphis

An outreach ministry dedicated to bettering the lives of youth through tools, knowledge, and confidence to become global leaders of society.

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6
Mayor's Institute for Excellence in Government Inc

Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee

Public Benefit
7
Leadership Memphis

A city is only as strong as it's base of community leaders. for 40 years leadership memphis has focused on bringing leaders together to learn about their community. what is going on? what is and isn't working? who is doing what? how does…

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8
Junior Achievement of Memphis and the Mid-South Inc

Since may 4, 1955, junior achievement of memphis and the mid-south has been committed to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy. we empower children to lead independent lives as they work to attain their dreams…

International
9
Memphis Academy of Science and Engineeri

To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community

Education
10
Wee Care Juvenile Success Program

Provide effective programs for background challenged individuals and access to immediate resources for impacted household with children under 18.

Crime & Legal
11
Memphis Challenge Inc

The goal of memphis challenge is to ensure the region's most talented minority students bring their education, expertise, and connections back to memphis.

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12
Bridges Usa Inc

Bridges mission is to unite and inspire diverse young people to become confident and courageous leaders committed to community transformation.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Freeman Outreach Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 64 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/35
Grantees still filing
18/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $609,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJUVENILE INTERVENTION AND FAITH BASED FOLLOW-UP: $196,750 · OtherJUVENILE INTERVENTION AND FAITH BASED FOLLOW-UPHATILOO THEATER: $192,152 · OtherHATILOO THEATERST GEORGES SCHOOL: $186,392 · OtherST GEORGES SCHOOLLAUSANNE SCHOOL: $160,309 · OtherLAUSANNE SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $124,799 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSTREET MINISTRIES: $85,750 · Other+35 more: $698,063 · Other+35 moreREACH MEMPHIS: $552,782 · EducationREACH MEMPHISCODECREW: $181,785 · EducationCODECREWMEMPHIS GRIZZLIES PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $105,000 · EducationMEMPHIS GRIZZLIES PREPA…MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $55,058 · EducationMEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHO…+3 more: $31,098 · EducationYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $275,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAG…STREETS MINISTRIES INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesSTREETS MINI…LATINO MEMPHIS INC: $62,500 · Human ServicesLATINO MEMPH…REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM: $55,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE EMPO…+1 more: $8,000 · Human ServicesNEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC: $238,400 · Arts & CultureNEW BALLET …INDIE MEMPHIS: $192,100 · Arts & CultureINDIE MEMPH…+1 more: $4,000 · Arts & CultureMEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 · Youth DevelopmentJIFF INC: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentUCAN of Memphis: $37,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentMemphis Inner City Rugby: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE: $54,992 · Civil RightsMemphis Zoological Society: $50,000 · Animals
Other$2,253,815Education$925,723Human Services$505,500Arts & Culture$434,500Youth Development$192,500Civil Rights$54,992Animals$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREACH MEMPHIS: $552,782 over 9y, 19% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $275,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC: $238,400 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetINDIE MEMPHIS: $192,100 over 8y, 9.7% of budgetCODECREW: $181,785 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetMEMPHIS GRIZZLIES PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $105,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSTREETS MINISTRIES INC: $105,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetMEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLATINO MEMPHIS INC: $62,500 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetMEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $55,058 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM: $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE: $54,992 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMemphis Zoological Society: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJIFF INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $24,120 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLET'S INNOVATE THROUGH EDUCATION DBA LIT: $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE PEER POWER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMemphis Inner City Rugby: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGENTLEMENS LEAGUE: $10,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIFT CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHARDING ACADEMY: $9,609 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBeautiful Spirited Women: $8,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetST ANDREW'S-SEWANEE SCHOOL: $4,280 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMemphis Youth Arts Initiative: $4,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetMemphis Bears Inc Police Activities League: $4,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFreeman Outreach Center: $1,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetLAUSANNE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $1,489 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMPHIS UNION MISSON: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds REACH MEMPHIS ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIE MEMPHIS ↗
  • Who funds CODECREW ↗
  • Who funds MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds STREETS MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Mid-South Inc ↗
  • Who funds LATINO MEMPHIS INC ↗
  • Who funds MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds NEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Virtue Quest Inc ↗
  • Who funds Memphis Zoological Society ↗
  • Who funds JIFF INC ↗
  • Who funds UCAN of Memphis ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGES ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS ↗
  • Who funds MIFA CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds LET'S INNOVATE THROUGH EDUCATION DBA LIT ↗
  • Who funds THE PEER POWER FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Christian Community F…Thomas W Briggs Found…Crews Family Foundati…The Kemmons Wilson Fa…United Way of the Mid…The Assisi Foundation…Jr Hyde III Family Fo…Slingshot Memphis IncJewish Foundation of …Women's Foundation fo…Thomas Garrott Founda…
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN53.1× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Memphis Grizzlies Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Memphis Grizzlies Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Memphis Grizzlies Charitable?

Find your warmest path to Memphis Grizzlies Charitable through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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