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Preserver Partner Foundation

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.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$83kYouth Development$6kArts & Culture$5kHealth$5kCivil Rights$3kCommunity Improvement$3kPublic Benefit$3kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$309k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEMOYNE-OWEN COLLEGE$5,000
MIDDLE COLLEGE HS$3,198
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$2,000
RISE FOUNDATION MEMPHIS$500
UT MARTIN BLACK ALUMNI$300
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 18%MLK 50: $3k → 8%Benedict College: $10k → 16%Lisa's Kids Project: $500 → 17%Ayala Halloran Taylor Group: $1k → 10%Grund City Read: $2k → 17%Ayala Halloran Taylor Group: $1k → 10%University of Memphis: $25k → 17%Kudzukian Boys Camp: $500 → 17%MIDDLE COLLEGE HS: $3k → 17%Methodist Healthcare Sickle Cell Foundation: $3k → 17%Methodist Sickle Cell Foundation: $3k → 17%Collage Dance Collective: $4k → 17%Middle College High School: $2k → 17%Boys Scout of America: $4k → 17%Middle College High School: $2k → 17%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $2k → 17%Middle College High School: $1k → 17%Collage Dance Collective: $1k → 17%Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church: $1k → 17%MORE Capital Partners: $5k → 17%Delta Boule Foundation: $500 → 17%Up the Vote 901: $250 → 17%Civil Rights Museum: $250 → 17%Literacy Mid-South: $1k → 17%LeMoyne Owen College: $25k → 17%Delta Boule: $500 → 17%LEMOYNE-OWEN COLLEGE: $5k → 17%Memphis Library Foundation: $200 → 17%Curtis Johnson Memorial Scholarship: $500 → 17%Bridges Foundation: $1k → 17%RISE Foundation Memphis: $1k → 17%RISE FOUNDATION MEMPHIS: $500 → 17%RISE Foundation Memphis: $250 → 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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$45k · 5 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
21

Total granted

$45k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
+31%

Still filing today

40%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • LC
    LeMoyne-Owen College
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue -6%
  • MC
    Middle College High School
    3× · 2022–2024 · $5k
  • CD
    COLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $5k · revenue -41%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Memphis
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • BC
    BENEDICT COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -49%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
The Black Literacy and Arts Collaborative Project
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2
The Libra Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Lucid Development Foundation
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4
Li Educational Foundation
Human Services
5
The Larry J Bell Library Foundation
Arts & Culture
6
Lindsay Educational Foundation
Education
7
The Boundless Books Project
Education
8
Lsb Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Wilsie Lucille Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Literacy Alliance
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11
Loofbourrow Educational Trust
Education
12
Lewis College of Business

Lcb sees a world in which everybody is a student. driven by a passion for education and an instinct for ingenuity, lcb aims to remove the limits of the classroom for every student in the world and make learning a daily practice. lcb…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Literacy Mid-South Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lisa Kids Project. 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

8 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. 8 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Memphis: $25,000 · OtherUniversity of MemphisMiddle College High School: $5,450 · OtherMiddle College High SchoolIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBoys Scout of America: $3,500 · OtherMIDDLE COLLEGE HS: $3,198 · OtherMethodist Healthcare Sickle Cell Foundation: $2,500 · OtherMLK 50: $2,500 · OtherLinks Foundation: $2,500 · OtherInstitute for Public Service Reporting: $2,500 · OtherAyala Halloran Taylor Group: $2,500 · OtherMethodist Sickle Cell Foundation: $2,500 · Other+13 more: $11,550 · Other+13 moreLeMoyne-Owen College: $30,000 · EducationLeMoyne-Owen CollegeBENEDICT COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationBENEDICT COLLEGE+1 more: $200 · EducationCOLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureDELTA BOULE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$68,698Education$40,200Arts & Culture$5,000Philanthropy$500

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 budgetLeMoyne-Owen College: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBENEDICT COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY MID-SOUTH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDELTA BOULE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMEMPHIS LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $200 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 LeMoyne-Owen College ↗
  • Who funds BENEDICT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds COLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY MID-SOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LISA KIDS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds DELTA BOULE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEMPHIS LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗

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 IncTN15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Preserver Partner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Preserver Partner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Preserver Partner Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Preserver Partner Foundation 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 29 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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