· 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES CHARITABLE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH VILLAGES | $20,000 |
| REACH MEMPHIS | $20,000 |
| JUVENILE INTERVENTION & FAITH-BASED FOLLOW-UP INC | $15,000 |
| STREETS MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| UCAN OF MEMPHIS | $15,000 |
| NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE & SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL INC | $10,000 |
| PEER POWER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HOPE CENTER | $10,000 |
| INDIE MEMPHIS | $7,500 |
| WORLD RELIEF MEMPHIS | $7,500 |
| MEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| THE GENTLEMEN'S LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| MEMPHIS INNER CITY RUGBY | $5,000 |
| MEMPHIS YOUTH ARTS INITIATIVE | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
YOUTH VILLAGES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $275k · revenue +140%- CCODECREW6× · 2017–2023 · $182k · revenue +380%
- SMSTREETS MINISTRIES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- GPGRIZZLIES PREP CHARTER SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $60k
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER MEMPHISone grant, 2017 · $59k
- REREFUGEE EMPOWERMENT CENTERone grant, 2018 · $50k
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 provide students in grades 6-12 with an excellent education, preparing them to pursue ambitious goals and succeed in college.
To empower at risk youth through community dev.
An outreach ministry dedicated to bettering the lives of youth through tools, knowledge, and confidence to become global leaders of society.
Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee
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…
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…
To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
Provide effective programs for background challenged individuals and access to immediate resources for impacted household with children under 18.
The goal of memphis challenge is to ensure the region's most talented minority students bring their education, expertise, and connections back to memphis.
Bridges mission is to unite and inspire diverse young people to become confident and courageous leaders committed to community transformation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 61. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 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. 35 of the 64 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.
- Who funds REACH MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds INDIE MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds CODECREW ↗
- Who funds STREETS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL 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 MIFA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds LET'S INNOVATE THROUGH EDUCATION DBA LIT ↗
- Who funds THE PEER POWER FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: 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
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 Grizzlies Charitable 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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.
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