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Slingshot Memphis Inc

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$645k
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 47 grants below total $632,412, the rows itemized in this filing. The $645,200 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,788 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
THE COLLECTIVE BLUEPRINT$25,000
KNOWLEDGE QUEST$25,000
CITY YEAR MEMPHIS$25,000
GOODWILL EXCEL CENTER$25,000
LIFEDOC$25,000
ALLMEMPHIS$25,000
CODECREW$25,000
NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP (LE BONHEUR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL)$22,886
AGAPE CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES$17,439
MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY$17,439
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL MEMPHIS$15,000
LIFELINE TO SUCCESS$15,000
MAN UP TEACHER FELLOWSHIP$15,000
SU CASA$15,000
GIRLS INC OF MEMPHIS$15,000
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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Its 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 its 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
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.5M · 47 repeat orgs$371k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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
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

  • 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 +85%

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%
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
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
2
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
3
The Collective Blueprint

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

Employment
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
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
6
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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7
Memphis Academy of Science and Engineeri

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

Education
8
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
9
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
10
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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11
One Family Memphis
Human Services
12
Harding Academy of Memphis Inc

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Allmemphis Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 59 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL OF MEMPHIS: $28,740 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $28,740 over 2y, 1.8% 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
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.

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 …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

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 Slingshot Memphis Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Slingshot Memphis Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
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.

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 59 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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