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Slingshot Memphis Inc

Slingshot has developed a new, standardized methodology to measure poverty-fighting impact.

$645k
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$2.3MEducation$2.0MEmployment$1.0MHealth$825kYouth Development$695kCommunity Improvement$358kCrime & Legal$313kRecreation & Sports$212kOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 47 grants below total $632,412 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $645,200 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,788 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k42 grants · $592k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$552k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CODECREW$25,000
ALLMEMPHIS$25,000
KNOWLEDGE QUEST$25,000
LIFEDOC$25,000
GOODWILL EXCEL CENTER$25,000
THE COLLECTIVE BLUEPRINT$25,000
CITY YEAR MEMPHIS$25,000
NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP (LE BONHEUR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL)$22,886
AGAPE CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES$17,439
MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY$17,439
GIRLS INC OF MEMPHIS$15,000
LIFELINE TO SUCCESS$15,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL MEMPHIS$15,000
JUVENILE INTERVENTION AND FAITH-BASED FOLLOW-UP$15,000
SU CASA$15,000
02The need
03

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%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%APPLE SEEDS INC: $10k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $19k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $10k → 17%METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $73k → 17%METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $68k → 17%METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $39k → 17%METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $9k → 17%METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $8k → 17%METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $6k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER: $63k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER: $28k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER: $16k → 17%YWCA OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $41k → 17%YWCA OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $25k → 17%YWCA OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $24k → 17%YWCA OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $10k → 17%RISE MEMPHIS: $12k → 17%HOPE HOUSE: $77k → 17%HOPE HOUSE: $70k → 17%HOPE HOUSE: $41k → 17%WORKFORCE MID-SOUTH: $25k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TN: $16k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TN: $16k → 17%HOPE HOUSE: $15k → 17%HOPE HOUSE: $13k → 17%REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM: $17k → 17%REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM: $16k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TN: $10k → 17%SERVICE OVER SELF: $13k → 17%HOPE HOUSE: $8k → 17%REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM: $10k → 17%SERVICE OVER SELF: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

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

47
5

Total granted

$7.5M
$286k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+13%

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.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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 SCHOOLS OF MEMPHIS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $450k · revenue +132%
  • LB
    Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation
    7× · 2018–2024 · $391k · revenue +35%
  • AC
    AGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $349k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +700%
  • ML
    Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $85k · revenue +170%
  • WM
    Workforce Mid-South Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -4%

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.

1
Mayor's Institute for Excellence in Government Inc

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

Public Benefit
2
City Leadership

City leadership's mission is to recruit, develop, and catalyze leaders for the benefit of the city of memphis. the organization was founded in order to maximize the leadership capital and potential of memphis. city leadership strives to…

Public Benefit
3
Memphis Tomorrow

Memphis tomorrow is an association of ceos of memphis' largest businesses working to promote opportunity and quality of life for all memphians through collective action and public-private partnerships.

Community Improvement
4
Memphis Recovery Centers Inc

Memphis recovery centers, inc. (mrc) provides compassionate treatment services for youth and adults suffering from substance addiction and co-occurring disorders, utilizing professional methods to improve spiritual, physical, emotional,…

Health
5
The Collective Blueprint

Our mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.

Employment
6
Memphis Urban League Inc

To enable and empower african-americans and other minorities in underserved communities to achieve their highest human potential and secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.

Human Services
7
Libertas School of Memphis

Our mission is to be a school for human flourishing: cultivating the minds, hands, and hearts of children in memphis for lives of wonder, work, and love.

Education
8
Reach Memphis

Reach memphis helps high achieving students from shelby county public schools succeed in high school, college and beyond using a continuum of services including summer educational experiences, college readiness planning and counseling, and…

Education
9
Jobs for Mississippi Graduates Inc

Jmg's mission is to keep young people in school through graduation and provide work-based learning experiences that will lead to career advancement opportunities or to enroll in a postsecondary institution that leads to a rewarding career.

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10
Memphis Academy of Science and Engineeri

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

Education
11
Nashville Inner City Ministry Inc

Nashville inner city ministry is a christ-centered community organization dedicated to empowering the spiritual, educational and vocational development of at-risk youth and their families.

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12
Harding Academy of Memphis Inc

Harding academy of memphis, inc. is a private school providing education from pre kindergarten through grade twelve.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Apple Seeds Inc. 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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number14%4%<5yr10%15%5–10yr11%27%10–20yr8%25%20–35yr6%12%35–55yr51%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value14%1%<5yr10%10%5–10yr11%24%10–20yr8%20%20–35yr6%12%35–55yr51%34%55yr+

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 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/58
the rest of the field
14%
1,291/9,095

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.

04the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 59 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/57
Grantees still filing
32/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ADVANCE MEMPHIS — $462,836 · EducationADVANCE MEMPHISCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MEMPHIS — $450,020 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MEMPHISGOODWILL EXCEL CENTER MIDSOUTH INC — $286,917 · EducationGOODWILL EXCEL CENTER MIDSOUTH IN…TECH901 — $219,693 · EducationTECH901SOULSVILLE CHARTER SCHOOL — $191,348 · EducationSOULSVILLE CHARTER SCHOOLWILLIAM R MOORE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY — $158,320 · EducationWILLIAM R MOORE COLLEGE OF TECHNO…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEE — $150,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESS…MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC — $112,196 · Education+7 more — $287,683 · Education+7 morePORTER-LEATH — $527,427 · OtherPORTER-LEATHTHE SALVATION ARMY — $526,327 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYAGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $349,104 · OtherAGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INCCITY YEAR INC — $228,791 · OtherCITY YEAR INCLIFELINE TO SUCCESS INC — $117,618 · OtherCOMMUNITY LIFT CORP — $228,562 · OtherCOMMUNITY LIFT CORPMEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC — $131,328 · OtherSu Casa Family Ministries — $108,175 · Other+9 more — $309,442 · Other+9 moreHOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC — $224,167 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE …Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association — $201,992 · Human ServicesMetropolita…NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC — $107,158 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOO…Young Women's Christian Association of Memphis Tennessee — $100,697 · Human ServicesYoung Women…REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM — $43,677 · Human ServicesREFUGEE EMP…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC — $41,967 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER — $28,740 · Human Services+4 more — $70,203 · Human Services+4 moreJIFF INC — $342,041 · Youth DevelopmentJIFF INCMemphis Inner City Rugby — $212,310 · Youth DevelopmentMemphis Inn…MEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $85,045 · Youth DevelopmentMEMPHIS LEA…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS — $72,271 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GI…KNOWLEDGE QUEST INC — $54,074 · Youth DevelopmentKNOWLEDGE Q…+2 more — $35,562 · Youth DevelopmentLe Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation — $390,795 · HealthLe Bonheur …ALPHA OMEGA VETERANS SERVICES INC — $288,443 · HealthALPHA OMEGA…Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc — $85,000 · HealthMethodist L…+1 more — $10,000 · HealthCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC — $269,517 · EmploymentMY CITY RIDES — $53,260 · EmploymentHOPE WORKS INC — $29,901 · EmploymentJust City Inc — $274,314 · Crime & LegalADVOCATES FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS — $10,000 · Crime & Legal
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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPORTER-LEATH — $527,427 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetADVANCE MEMPHIS — $462,836 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MEMPHIS — $450,020 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetLe Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation — $390,795 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetAGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $349,104 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetJIFF INC — $342,041 over 7y, 9.5% of budgetALPHA OMEGA VETERANS SERVICES INC — $288,443 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetGOODWILL EXCEL CENTER MIDSOUTH INC — $286,917 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetJust City Inc — $274,314 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC — $269,517 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $228,791 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIFT CORP — $228,562 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetHOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC — $224,167 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetTECH901 — $219,693 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetMemphis Inner City Rugby — $212,310 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association — $201,992 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSOULSVILLE CHARTER SCHOOL — $191,348 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetWILLIAM R MOORE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY — $158,320 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetMEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC — $131,328 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetLIFELINE TO SUCCESS INC — $117,618 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetMEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC — $112,196 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSu Casa Family Ministries — $108,175 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC — $107,158 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Memphis Tennessee — $100,697 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetMEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $85,045 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMethodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc — $85,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS — $72,271 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLET'S INNOVATE THROUGH EDUCATION DBA LIT — $71,089 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetALLMEMPHIS INC — $69,367 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF MEMPHIS — $59,832 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetKNOWLEDGE QUEST INC — $54,074 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMY CITY RIDES — $53,260 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNEW HOPE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $50,394 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMAN UP TEACHER FELLOWS INC — $49,832 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetREFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM — $43,677 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC — $41,967 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBELIEVE MEMPHIS ACADEMY INC — $41,172 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS — $40,137 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY VALUES INC — $34,315 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHOPE WORKS INC — $29,901 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER — $28,740 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL OF MEMPHIS — $28,740 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCODECREW — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWorkforce Mid-South Inc — $24,641 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLITERACY MID-SOUTH INC — $23,178 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetService Over Self Inc — $23,178 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMULTINATIONAL MEMPHIS INC — $23,178 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetANGEL STREET INC — $21,589 over 2y, 2.4% of budget
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 Foundation …Christian Community F…The Kemmons Wilson Fa…The Assisi Foundation…The Urban Child Insti…Thomas W Briggs Found…United Way of the Mid…Jr Hyde III Family Fo…Women's Foundation fo…Crews Family Foundati…John Dustin Buckman C…Thomas Garrott Founda…
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN92.9× affinity51 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 · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · The Urban Child Institute · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · United Way of the Mid South · 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 organization 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
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: 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 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 59 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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