How much does Plough Foundation give?

Plough Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $5,300,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 53 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Plough Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Philanthropy (18%), Religion (16%).

Who are Plough Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Temple Israel ($15M), Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association ($5.9M), Artsmemphis ($5.3M).

Does Plough Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Plough Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Plough Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Christian Community Foundation of Memphis, Jr Hyde III Family Foundation.

Where is Plough Foundation based?

Plough Foundation is based in TN.

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Tennessee · Private foundation

Plough Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.3M
Granted FY2023: 6
Grants FY2023: 6
Organizations funded FY2023: 0%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2023: $1,000,000
Largest grant, FY2023: $2,000,000
Organizations funded a year: 6 to 53; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023: 1
Total assets, FY2023: $23M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Plough Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2023	6	$5.3M	0%
FY2022	13	$20M	0%
FY2021	25	$16M	12%
FY2020	26	$7.4M	8%
FY2019	53	$6.7M	51%
FY2018	52	$12M	44%
FY2017	49	$11M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Human Services$18MPhilanthropy$16MReligion$15MArts & Culture$11MEducation$9.6MHealth$8.6MHousing & Shelter$3.0MFood & Nutrition$2.0MOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Temple Israel	$14,666,666	5	n/a
Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association	$5,922,774	6	16%
Artsmemphis	$5,300,000	5	52%
United Way of the Mid South	$5,000,000	2	23%
Youth Villages Inc	$4,750,000	5	1%
Memphis Library Foundation	$4,032,366	3	59%
B'Nai B'Rith Home and Hospital for Aged Inc (D/B/A Memphis Jewish Home & Rehab)	$4,001,600	4	6%
Memphis Jewish Community Center	$4,000,000	3	16%
Mid-South Food Bank	$2,050,000	3	3%
Rhodes College	$1,795,000	3	1%

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All grantees of Plough Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Temple Israel	$14,666,666	5	n/a
Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association	$5,922,774	6	16%
Artsmemphis	$5,300,000	5	52%
United Way of the Mid South	$5,000,000	2	23%
Youth Villages Inc	$4,750,000	5	1%
Memphis Library Foundation	$4,032,366	3	59%
B'Nai B'Rith Home and Hospital for Aged Inc (D/B/A Memphis Jewish Home & Rehab)	$4,001,600	4	6%
Memphis Jewish Community Center	$4,000,000	3	16%
Mid-South Food Bank	$2,050,000	3	3%
Rhodes College	$1,795,000	3	1%
Habitat for Humanity	$1,400,000	3	65%
Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation	$1,000,000	2	3%
University of Memphis Foundation	$1,000,000	4	1%
Memphis Symphony Orchestra Inc	$1,000,000	5	6%
The University of Tennesseewest Institute for Cancer Research	$1,000,000	2	25%
Memphis Union Misson	$1,000,000	2	7%
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc	$1,000,000	5	3%
City of Memphis	$912,215	2	n/a
Memphisshelby Crime Commission	$891,666	5	13%
Christian Brothers University	$877,459	6	0%
Agape Child and Family Services Inc	$650,000	5	2%
Binghampton Development Corporation	$600,000	1	15%
Circuit Playhouse Inc	$500,000	1	17%
Church Health Center of Memphis Inc	$475,000	3	1%
Memphis Jewish Housing Development- Plough Towers	$421,000	1	22%
Meritan Inc	$403,307	3	2%
Literacy Mid-South Inc	$375,000	4	21%
Theatre Memphis	$350,000	1	7%
Memphis Chamber Foundation	$350,000	3	46%
Opera Memphis Inc	$320,000	1	18%
Harwood Center Inc	$300,000	1	15%
Porter-Leath	$300,000	1	1%
Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis	$300,000	2	12%
Wolf River Conservancy Inc	$270,000	3	8%
Baptist Memorial College of Health Sciences Inc	$250,000	1	1%
Dixon Gallery and Gardens	$250,000	3	1%
Germantown Performing Arts Center	$250,000	1	10%
Memphis Botanic Garden Foundation Inc	$250,000	1	6%
Knowledge Quest Inc	$250,000	1	17%
Methodist Healthcare Foundation	$250,000	1	4%
Bridges USA Inc	$200,000	2	3%
Community Alliance for the Homeless	$180,000	3	4%
Southern College of Optometry	$175,000	2	0%
Outmemphis	$162,000	2	15%
New Memphis Institute	$150,000	2	4%
Ballet Memphis Corporation	$150,000	2	1%
Memphis Tomorrow	$150,000	3	4%
Kindred Place Inc	$150,000	1	n/a
The Campbell Foundation	$119,000	1	4%
The Works Inc	$108,517	1	30%
Community Legal Center	$102,000	3	6%
Shelby Residential & Vocational Services Inc	$100,000	1	0%
Southern Reins Center for Equine Therapy	$100,000	1	8%
Memphis Fire Department Foundation	$100,000	1	n/a
Mid-South Public Communications Foundation	$100,000	2	1%
Hattiloo Theatre	$90,000	2	4%
Grantmakers in Aging Inc	$82,550	4	4%
Volunteer Odyssey	$62,150	2	14%
Friends for Life Corporation	$50,000	1	1%
Hope House	$50,000	1	22%
Common Table Health Alliance	$50,000	1	11%
Memphis Child Advocacy Center	$50,000	1	3%
Philanthropy Southeast Inc	$49,670	5	0%
Withers Collection Inc	$47,169	1	n/a
The Urbanart Commission	$45,000	1	5%
Service Over Self Inc	$40,000	1	2%
Bodine of Germantown Inc	$40,000	1	1%
Casaluz	$37,103	1	11%
Medical Education & Research Institute	$35,000	1	0%
Kavod	$33,200	4	3%
Memphis Area Womens Council	$30,000	1	n/a
Mid-South Lions Sight and Hearing Service Inc dba Mid-South Lions	$30,000	1	9%
The Synergy Foundation Incorporated	$29,478	2	1%
The Arc Mid-South	$25,919	1	1%
Speech & Hearing Center of the Midsouth Dba Memphis Oral School for the Deaf	$20,000	1	1%
Tennessee Shakespeare Company	$10,000	1	1%
Vote 70 Inc	$10,000	1	4%
Ave Maria Foundation of Memphis Inc	$8,838	1	1%
Everystory	$8,400	1	3%
Tennessee Nonprofit Network	$1,500	2	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.8M), not named here.

Plough Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 74 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 74.

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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 of Greater Memphis IncTN90.4× affinity53 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 · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · United Way of the Mid South · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · Belz Foundation · The Urban Child Institute · Self Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · Rose Montgomery Johnston Family 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.

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About Plough Foundation

How much does Plough Foundation give?: Plough Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $5,300,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 53 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Plough Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Philanthropy (18%), Religion (16%).
Who are Plough Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Temple Israel ($15M), Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association ($5.9M), Artsmemphis ($5.3M).
Does Plough Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Plough Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Plough Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Christian Community Foundation of Memphis, Jr Hyde III Family Foundation.
Where is Plough Foundation based?: Plough Foundation is based in TN.