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The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$2.5M
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$9.3MEducation$8.6MArts & Culture$8.2MHousing & Shelter$5.2MHuman Services$4.1MCommunity Improvement$3.3MRecreation & Sports$2.8MYouth Development$2.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $238k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+13 grants · $9.1M
$91,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$233M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM$2,500,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA$750,000
HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS$500,000
YOUTH VILLAGES$500,000
MEMPHIS ROCK'N'SOUL INC$500,000
LIFEDOC HEALTH$500,000
ALLIANCE HEALTHERCARE SERVICES$500,000
CTC fbo BINGHAMPTON LAND TRUST$450,000
Individual grant recipient$411,088
SHELBY FARMS PARK CONSERVANCY$275,000
MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDENS$250,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MEMPHIS$248,115
TENNIS MEMPHIS$200,000
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 (FY20–24, $5.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MERGE MEMPHIS: $83k → 17%THE HOSPITALITY HUB: $750k → 17%MERITAN INC: $116k → 17%MERITAN INC: $108k → 17%MERITAN INC: $97k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $60k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $54k → 17%THISTLE AND BEE ENTERPRISES INC: $20k → 17%YMCA OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH: $1.0M → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $500k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $500k → 17%RESOURCE REDISTRIBUTION MINISTRY: $25k → 17%HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS: $500k → 17%HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS: $500k → 17%OUTMEMPHIS: $125k → 17%OUTMEMPHIS: $125k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSE: $90k → 17%OUTMEMPHIS: $75k → 17%OUTMEMPHIS: $50k → 17%COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR HOMELESS: $200k → 17%COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR HOMELESS: $150k → 17%COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR HOMELESS: $100k → 17%HOPE HOUSE DAYCARE: $30k → 17%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIES: $25k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OR
NJ
VA
AR
TN
DC
MS
AL
GA
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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25M · 58 repeat orgs$30M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

58 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
85

Total granted

$25M
$23M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+10%

Still filing today

71%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.3M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +78%
  • YOUTH VILLAGES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +41%
  • TN
    TENNESSEE NONPROFIT NETWORK
    4× · 2020–2023 · $800k · revenue +26% · 71% of their budget

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1.6M · revenue +39%
  • MM
    METAL MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1.5M
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue +74%
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
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
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
3
Theatre Memphis

To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
4
One Family Memphis
Human Services
5
Memphis Center City Development Corporation

Assist private development projects

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6
Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce

To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.

—
7
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
8
Memphis Academy of Science and Engineeri

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

Education
9
Memphis Bioworks Foundation

The foundation is executing a strategic business plan that leverages the competitive strengths within the region while expanding the infrastructure, educational opportunities, and entrepreneur support needed to expand entrepreneurship.

Health
10
Fair Housing Council of Metropolitan Memphis

The fair housing council of metropolitan memphis (fhcmm) is dedicated to ensuring fair and equitable housing opportunities through education, research, and advocacy and to eliminating illegal barriers that perpetuate housing segregation,…

Housing & Shelter
11
Memphis Center for Independent Living

Advocate, educate and unite communities

—
12
Memphis for All

To build a cross-class multi-racial progressive alliance, by combining integrated voter engagement, distributive organization, and sustained leadership development.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Chamber Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Protect Our Aquifer. 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

101 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. 101 of the 163 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.

15
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/101
Grantees still filing
58/101
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,680,613 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMETAL MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 · OtherMETAL MUSEUM FOUNDATIONLE BONHEUR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUN: $1,250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000,000 · OtherKNOWLEDGE QUEST INC: $1,250,000 · Other+93 more: $19,457,759 · Other+93 moreLorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation: $2,500,000 · Arts & CultureLorraine Civi…COLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE: $591,500 · Arts & CultureCOLLAGE DANCE…Memphis Rock N Soul Museum Inc: $500,000 · Arts & CultureMemphis Rock …CIRCUIT PLAYHOUSE INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureCIRCUIT PLAYH…OPERA MEMPHIS INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA MEMPHIS…MEMPHIS FOURTH ESTATE INC: $350,000 · Arts & CultureTHE OVERTON PARK SHELL INC: $322,000 · Arts & CultureSOULSVILLE FOUNDATION: $317,911 · Arts & CultureINDIE MEMPHIS: $250,000 · Arts & CultureDixon Gallery and Gardens: $225,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $539,600 · Arts & Culture+9 moreUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $1,650,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSI…WILLIAM R MOORE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1,000,000 · EducationWILLIAM R MO…CODECREW: $676,604 · EducationCODECREWCHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · EducationCHRISTIAN BR…Rhodes College: $250,000 · Education+7 more: $508,473 · Education+7 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,825,000 · HealthST JUDE CHI…ALPHA OMEGA VETERANS SERVICES INC: $750,000 · HealthALPHA OMEGA…CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $660,000 · HealthCHURCH HEAL…BAPTIST MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $250,000 · Health+2 more: $50,000 · HealthTHE HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS: $1,750,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOSPIT…YMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF ME…YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILL…COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS: $450,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY …OUTMEMPHIS: $375,000 · Human ServicesOUTMEMPHISMERITAN INC: $321,578 · Human ServicesMERITAN IN…+7 more: $387,219 · Human Services+7 moreMEMPHIS RIVER PARKS PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY LIFT CORP: $600,000 · Community ImprovementBinghampton Development Corporation: $400,000 · Community ImprovementCLEAN MEMPHIS INC: $250,000 · Community ImprovementORPHEUM THEATRE GROUP: $228,287 · Community ImprovementSAFEWAYS INCORPORATED: $225,000 · Community ImprovementThe Big We: $200,000 · Community ImprovementREGION SMART INC: $125,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $77,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED HOUSING INC: $650,000 · Housing & ShelterROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS: $500,000 · Housing & ShelterMEMPHIS CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $500,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$27,138,372Arts & Culture$6,596,011Education$6,085,077Health$5,535,000Human Services$5,283,797Community Improvement$3,105,287Housing & Shelter$1,650,000

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 budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,825,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation: $2,500,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS: $1,750,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $1,650,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKNOWLEDGE QUEST INC: $1,250,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetYMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMEMPHIS RIVER PARKS PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAM R MOORE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1,000,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTENNESSEE NONPROFIT NETWORK: $800,000 over 4y, 71% of budgetALPHA OMEGA VETERANS SERVICES INC: $750,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCODECREW: $676,604 over 2y, 23% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $660,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetUNITED HOUSING INC: $650,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIFT CORP: $600,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCOLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE: $591,500 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetSchoolSeed Foundation: $550,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH INC: $503,115 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetCHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY: $500,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS: $500,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetMY CITY RIDES: $500,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetALLIANCE HEALTHCARE SERVICES: $500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMEMPHIS CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetMemphis Rock N Soul Museum Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetCIRCUIT PLAYHOUSE INC: $500,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetOPERA MEMPHIS INC: $500,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS: $450,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetSu Casa Family Ministries: $450,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetTENNIS MEMPHIS INC: $400,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetBinghampton Development Corporation: $400,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetHARWOOD CENTER INC: $400,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetOUTMEMPHIS: $375,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetMEMPHIS FOURTH ESTATE INC: $350,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetSHELBY FARMS PARK CONSERVANCY: $350,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTHE OVERTON PARK SHELL INC: $322,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMERITAN INC: $321,578 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSOULSVILLE FOUNDATION: $317,911 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetMEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $311,233 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJust City Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetADVOCATES FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $280,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetBRIDGES USA INC: $250,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetINDIE MEMPHIS: $250,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetCLEAN MEMPHIS INC: $250,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF MEMPHIS: $250,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetRhodes College: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBAPTIST MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 …Jr Hyde III Family Fo…Christian Community F…Thomas W Briggs Found…The Kemmons Wilson Fa…United Way of the Mid…Plough FoundationThe Urban Child Insti…Slingshot Memphis IncArtsmemphisSelf FoundationThe Kresge Foundation
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN124.3× affinity78 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 · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · United Way of the Mid South · Plough Foundation · The Urban Child Institute · Slingshot Memphis Inc · Artsmemphis · Self Foundation · The Kresge 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 The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
39report 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 163 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-PF 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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