Tennessee · Public charity
Seeding Success
SEEDING SUCCESS is an organization that supports and promotes a "cradle to career" education agenda in shelby county. It serves as a facilitator advocate, and platform for collaboration around four goals: 1. Children enter kindegarten ready to learn. 2. Youth graduates high school "college ready". 3. Adults earn certifications and…
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2023
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2023
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2023
- $1.4M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2023
- $750,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 2
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 1
- Total assets, FY2023
- $19M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Seeding Success funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 2 | $1.4M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $1.0M | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $41k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $42k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennesseans for Quality Early Education | $700,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Leadership Memphis | $82,830 | 2 | 3% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
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: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc
How this is measured
About Seeding Success
- How much does Seeding Success give?
- Seeding Success reported 2 itemized grants totaling $1,450,000, out of $1,517,559 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Seeding Success fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Environment (69%), Education (28%), Community Improvement (2%).
- Who are Seeding Success's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Tennesseans for Quality Early Education ($700k), Leadership Memphis ($83k).
- Does Seeding Success fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Seeding Success?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc.
- Where is Seeding Success based?
- Seeding Success is based in TN.
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