· Public charity
The Canale Foundation Inc
The primary exempt purpose of the organization is to assist the community foundation of greater memphis, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $577,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,582,885 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,005,385 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $278k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMMANUEL CENTER INC | $250,000 |
| MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC | $126,500 |
| MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL | $101,000 |
| ST PETER LITERARY SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| ALCY BALL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| FAMILY SAFETY CENTER OF MEMPHIS AND SHELBY COUNTY | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MEMPHIS | $5,000 |
| MIFA | $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 (FY21–23, $30k) 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.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k 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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC3× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +59%
- SFSchoolSeed Foundation2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +18%
- FSFAMILY SAFETY CENTER OF MEMPHIS AND SHELBY COUNTY INC2× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- AOAHS OF GREATER MEMPHIS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue -81%
- THTHE HUTCHISON SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $201k · revenue +48%
- SPST PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $100k
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.
Assist private development projects
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…
To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.
To prepare young ladies and gentlemen for college success within a highly-structured, nurturing, christian environment.
To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.
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 encourage philanthropy and foster leadership among women and support programs that enable women and children to reach their full potential.
To provide housing and services to low, very low, and extremely low income families.
The mission of the urbanart commission is to create opportunities for artists and neighborhoods to connect and shape spaces through public art.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Opportunity Scholarship Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Collage Dance Collective. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 61. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 24 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 BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AHS OF GREATER MEMPHIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUTCHISON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA OMEGA VETERANS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds DOROTHY DAY HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES USA INC ↗
- Who funds COLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds SchoolSeed Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds ALCY BALL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE COLLECTIVE THE CLTV INC ↗
- Who funds WOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SAFETY CENTER OF MEMPHIS AND SHELBY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds ARTSMEMPHIS ↗
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 · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · United Way of the Mid South · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Thomas Garrott Foundation · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · The Sims Family Charitable Trust 44-5001145 · Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation · Belz Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Memphis
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 Canale Foundation Inc 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.
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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