Tennessee · Public charity
Memphis Tomorrow
MEMPHIS TOMORROW is an association of ceos of memphis' largest businesses working to promote opportunity and quality of life for all memphians through collective action and public-private partnerships.
- $633k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2024
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $160,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 4
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $635k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Memphis Tomorrow funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $282k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 5 | $633k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $757k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $425k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $425k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $688k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $425k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $1.1M | 25% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $629k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memphis Brand Office | $2,000,000 | 8 | 22% |
| Memphisshelby Crime Commission | $1,773,493 | 8 | 65% |
| Tennesseans for Quality Early Education Policy and Research | $643,942 | 8 | 38% |
| Youth Villages Inc | $289,416 | 2 | 0% |
| Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce | $255,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Opportunity Tennessee | $165,000 | 1 | n/a |
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Jr Hyde III Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Memphis Tomorrow
- How much does Memphis Tomorrow give?
- Memphis Tomorrow reported 5 grants totaling $632,531 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Memphis Tomorrow fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (45%), Crime & Legal (33%), Education (12%).
- Who are Memphis Tomorrow's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Memphis Brand Office ($2.0M), Memphisshelby Crime Commission ($1.8M), Tennesseans for Quality Early Education Policy and Research ($644k).
- Does Memphis Tomorrow fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Memphis Tomorrow?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jr Hyde III Family Foundation.
- Where is Memphis Tomorrow based?
- Memphis Tomorrow is based in TN.
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