Tennessee · Private foundation
Speer Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $755,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 51
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $52M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Speer Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 45 | $2.9M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $2.7M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $2.2M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $2.6M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $2.8M | 31% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $2.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Brothers University | $1,161,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Mid-South Food Bank | $1,078,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Harwood Center Inc | $824,000 | 6 | 12% |
| Mifa Corporation | $540,000 | 6 | 68% |
| Youth Villages Inc | $500,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities of West Tennessee Inc | $400,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Ave Maria Home Inc | $350,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Jiff Inc | $327,500 | 6 | 7% |
| University of Memphis Foundation | $306,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Church Health Center of Memphis Inc | $275,200 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Speer Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · United Way of the Mid South · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The Day Foundation · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation · Gadomski Family Foundation · Belz Foundation · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Speer Charitable Trust
- How much does Speer Charitable Trust give?
- Speer Charitable Trust reported 45 grants totaling $2,944,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 51 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Speer Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (24%), Education (21%), Human Services (17%).
- Who are Speer Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Christian Brothers University ($1.2M), Mid-South Food Bank ($1.1M), Harwood Center Inc ($824k).
- Does Speer Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Speer Charitable Trust 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 Speer Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation of Memphis, Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation.
- Where is Speer Charitable Trust based?
- Speer Charitable Trust is based in TN.
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