· Public charity
St Mary's Episcopal School
The mission of st.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $20,292 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,637,747 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,617,455 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| READING WITH MRS RICHARDSON | $7,000 |
| FORREST SPENCE FUND | $6,750 |
| STREETS MINISTRIES | $6,542 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
MEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER4× · 2020–2023 · $28k · revenue +31%- SMSTREETS MINISTRIES INC3× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +8%
- SCSu Casa Family Ministries2× · 2019–2020 · $14k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- MMMULTINATIONAL MEMPHIS INCone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +10%
- NBNEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INCone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue -11%
- MAMEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue -42%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
The mission is to create memorable learning experiences through the joy of play, in hands-on exhibits and programs. we accomplish this mission by reaching out to the mid-south school children, families, and the tourist visitor.
A city is only as strong as it's base of community leaders. for 40 years leadership memphis has focused on bringing leaders together to learn about their community. what is going on? what is and isn't working? who is doing what? how does…
An outreach ministry dedicated to bettering the lives of youth through tools, knowledge, and confidence to become global leaders of society.
To impact the city of memphis (and other urban areas) with effective community service and to provide relief and education to the poor, distressed, and underprivileged.
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient and family-centered care. services will be…
Allmemphis, inc. works to equip teachers and literacy coaches in partner schools with orton-gillingham training, then provides a multi-year in-school mentorship to support the implementation of the approach.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 23 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CARPENTER ART GARDEN ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STREETS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Kindred Place Inc ↗
- Who funds BOOKS FROM BIRTH INC ↗
- Who funds Su Casa Family Ministries ↗
- Who funds THRIVE MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds PORTER-LEATH ↗
- Who funds Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds Eikon Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds MULTINATIONAL MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds RICHARDSON EDUCATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds THE KEMMONS WILSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOROTHY DAY HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds FORREST SPENCE FUND ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The Urban Child Institute · Goodlett Foundation · John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust · United Way of the Mid South · Slingshot Memphis Inc · Belz Foundation · The Day Foundation · Crews Family 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 St Mary's Episcopal School 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
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.