How much did SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC grant in FY2024?

Education$2.3MHuman Services$819kYouth Development$801kHealth$774kEmployment$353kCrime & Legal$284kCommunity Improvement$273kReligion$250kHousing & Shelter$40kOther$2.0M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

identityeducationemploymenttechnology

2020

identitylearningbuildchristiannecessarytechnologyemployment

2021

gospelgirlswholeleadership mlfwomen childrenidentitywomen's

2022

actworkforceleadershipmaleallmemphisequipsimplementation

2023

not-for-profitfeelunderstandhopeworksseeksvalueleadership

2024

mentalequipexistshopeworksnot-for-profitseeksvalue

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $40k
$10k–50k42 grants · $592k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$552k

Total assets

Largest grants

THE COLLECTIVE BLUEPRINT$25,000
KNOWLEDGE QUEST$25,000
CITY YEAR MEMPHIS$25,000
CODECREW$25,000
LIFEDOC$25,000
GOODWILL EXCEL CENTER$25,000
ALLMEMPHIS$25,000
NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP (LE BONHEUR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL)$22,886
MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY$17,439
AGAPE CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES$17,439
MAN UP TEACHER FELLOWSHIP$15,000
JUVENILE INTERVENTION AND FAITH-BASED FOLLOW-UP$15,000
LIFELINE TO SUCCESS$15,000
GIRLS INC OF MEMPHIS$15,000
SU CASA$15,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $819k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$7.5M · 47 repeat orgs$371k to everyone else

47 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.5M

$286k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%

+170%

Still filing today

91%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

CI
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL MEMPHIS
7× · 2018–2024 · $450k · revenue +63%
NP
NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP (LE BONHEUR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL)
7× · 2018–2024 · $391k · revenue +64%
AC
AGAPE CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES
6× · 2019–2024 · $349k · revenue +61%

Funded once

CI
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEEgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +700%
ML
METHODIST LEBONHEUR HEALTHCAREgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $85k · revenue +170%
WM
WORKFORCE MID-SOUTH
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +21%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Mayor's Institute for Excellence in

Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee

Public Benefit

City Leadership

City leadership exists to recruit, develop, & catalyze leaders for the benefit of the city of memphis.

Public Benefit

Forward Memphis

Helping people move forward in their financial lives.

Community Improvement

Thrive Memphis

To enrich the lives of the developmentally challenged by meeting their social, recreational and continuing educational needs.

Human Services

Memphis Challenge Inc

THE PURPOSE OF MEMPHIS CHALLENGE IS TO MATCH GIFTED, BUT UNDER-REPRESENTED MEMPHIS HIGH SCHOOL students of color with top-tier colleges and universities and scholarship offerings offered by prestigious colleges and universities.

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Memphisshelby Crime Commission

To create a safe community where all citizens can live, work, and raise families with the goal of making memphis and shelby county the premier community in the nation for crime prevention.

Crime & Legal

Mission Mississippi

"to encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message"

Civil Rights

Memphis Academy of Science and Engineeri

To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community

Education

Harding Academy of Memphis Inc

Private christian education

Education

Sanctuary Counseling Center

Our mission is to provide affordable counseling to full-time vocational ministry workers and their families in memphis. our vision is to resource the local church and parachurch ministries in memphis through personal counseling, preemptive…

Health

Bridges Usa Inc

Bridges mission is to unite and inspire diverse young people to become confident and courageous leaders committed to community transformation.

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Memphis Urban League Inc

To assist african americans and other minorities to expand their financial well-being through vocational training, job placement, housing and other assistance.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rise Memphis Inc and the most unlike its peers is William R Moore College of Technology. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 61. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/58

the rest of the field

13%

1,138/9,095

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

57 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

55/57

Grantees still filing

46/57

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$2,319,013Other$2,526,774Human Services$818,601Youth Development$801,303Health$774,238Employment$352,678Crime & Legal$284,314

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community FoundationTN96.5× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Of · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · United Way of the Mid South · The Urban Child Institute · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis · Crews Family Foundation · John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust · Thomas Garrott Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: JUVENILE INTERVENTION AND FAITH-BASED FOLLOW-UP.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 620818307 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on JUVENILE INTERVENTION AND FAITH-BASED FOLLOW-UP, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 10% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Slingshot Memphis Inc?

Find your warmest path to Slingshot Memphis Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

57 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Slingshot Memphis Inc?

More from the funding graph

SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

57 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Slingshot Memphis Inc?

More from the funding graph