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Tennessee · Public charity

Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc

To equip and empower grassroots urban leaders to transform lives and communities in memphis.

$53k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2018
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100% of Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Christian Community Foundation Of Memphis And The Mid-South Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’18
0
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2025
$52,960
Largest grant, FY2025
$52,960
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$626k
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$320kYouth Development$69k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Repairing the Breach Memphis$68,659131%

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About Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc

How much does Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc give?
Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc reported 1 grants totaling $52,960 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2018, its largest causes are Philanthropy (82%), Youth Development (18%).
Who are Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2018: Repairing the Breach Memphis ($69k).
Where is Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc based?
Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc is based in TN.

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 2 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 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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