Mississippi · Private foundation
Self Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $124k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2024
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 61
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations Self Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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 | 31 | $123k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $151k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 61 | $144k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $163k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $167k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 44 | $134k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 49 | $170k | 43% |
| FY2017 | 46 | $172k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teach for America Inc | $98,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Ballet Memphis Corporation | $96,100 | 8 | 1% |
| Oxford University United Methodist Church | $65,200 | 4 | n/a |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $62,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Quitman County Educational Foundati | $52,940 | 6 | 1% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $52,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Mississippi Wildlife Fisheries and Parks Foundation Inc | $47,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Opera Memphis Inc | $41,464 | 8 | 1% |
| Overton Park Conservancy | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Mifa Corporation | $26,500 | 8 | 2% |
Show all 79 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($253k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Self Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Plough Foundation · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Belz Foundation · United Way of the Mid South · Rose Montgomery Johnston Family Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · The Day Foundation
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Self Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Self 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.
About Self Foundation
- How much does Self Foundation give?
- Self Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $123,890 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 61 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Self Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Education (16%), Health (16%).
- Who are Self Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Teach for America Inc ($99k), Ballet Memphis Corporation ($96k), Oxford University United Methodist Church ($65k).
- Does Self Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Self Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Self Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc, Christian Community Foundation of Memphis.
- Where is Self Foundation based?
- Self Foundation is based in MS.
Play a game based on Self’s filings →