· Private foundation
The Albert Jay Martin Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| BALMORAL BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| THRIVE MEMPHIS | $10,000 |
| YADKIN ARTS COUNCIL | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $545k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
32 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS5× · 2017–2023 · $2.5M · revenue +108%
- CHCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC6× · 2017–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +54%
- MCMY CITY RIDES2× · 2017–2020 · $800k · revenue +269% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- EEPICENTERone grant, 2019 · $100k
- GBGREEN BRONX MACHINE INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +20%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SARASOTA FLone grant, 2023 · $60k
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.
To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
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.
Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee
To prepare young ladies and gentlemen for college success within a highly-structured, nurturing, christian environment.
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…
King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.
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…
To provide students in grades 6-12 with an excellent education, preparing them to pursue ambitious goals and succeed in college.
Lead public schools exists to prepare all our students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and in life.
The university school of jackson, a distinctive college preparatory school, seeks to instill a passion for academic excellence and lifelong learning so each student will reach his/her maximum potential.
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.
Harding academy of memphis, inc. is a private school providing education from pre kindergarten through grade twelve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Porter-Leath and the most unlike its peers is One Million Wells Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 33. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
34 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. 34 of the 69 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 THE JUICE PLUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds MY CITY RIDES ↗
- Who funds A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES USA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S INDEPENDENT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREEN BRONX MACHINE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PORTER-LEATH ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC 558 CHICKASAW COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THRIVE MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds CALVARY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Surry County Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ENTREPRENEURS INC ↗
- Who funds Yadkin Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Jackson ↗
- Who funds RIVERARTSFEST INC ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Crews Family Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Belz Foundation · United Way of the Mid South · St Mary's Episcopal School · Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation Inc · Speer Charitable Trust · Deupree Family Foundation (2155000180) Regions Bank Trustee
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 The Albert Jay Martin Family Foundation 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.
- Delaware State University — 18% 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.
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