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The Glenn 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.

$319k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$733kEducation$665kHealth$480kArts & Culture$150kRecreation & Sports$1k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $280k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$75,000
SAINT PAULS CATHOLIC SCHOOL$55,000
ROCK AND SOUL MUSEUM$50,000
KAPPA ALPHA EDUCATIONAL FUND$50,000
CHURCH HEALTH CENTER$50,000
SOUTHERN REINS$12,000
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHOLIC SCHOOL$10,000
FEDEX FAMILY HOUSE$10,000
MADONNA LEARNING CENTER$4,200
IN THE ZONE MINISTRIES$2,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%HISTORIC ROYAL PALACES: $5k → 10%IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $10k → 28%HOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHRUCH: $105k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $192k → 18%HOPE CHURCH: $80k → 17%KAPPA ALPHA EDUCATIONAL FUND: $50k → 18%HOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHRUCH: $80k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $32k → 18%HOPE CHURCH: $75k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI: $20k → 18%IN THE ZONE MINISTRIES: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI: $20k → 18%HOPE CHURCH: $75k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $20k → 18%HOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHRUCH: $75k → 17%HOPE CHURCH: $25k → 17%MADONNA LEARNING CENTER: $110k → 17%MADONNA LEARNING CENTER: $56k → 17%MADONNA LEARNING CENTER: $15k → 17%MADONNA LEARNING CENTER: $15k → 17%MADONNA LEARNING CENTER: $6k → 17%MADONNA LEARNING CENTER: $5k → 17%CHURCH HEALTH CENTER: $54k → 17%CHURCH HEALTH CENTER: $50k → 17%CHURCH HEALTH CENTER: $50k → 17%CHURCH HEALTH CENTER: $50k → 17%CHURCH HEALTH CENTER: $50k → 17%CHURCH HEALTH CENTER: $50k → 17%CHURCH HEALTH CENTER: $50k → 17%CHURCH HEALTH CENTER: $25k → 17%LEBONHEUR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10k → 17%ROCK AND SOUL MUSEUM: $50k → 17%ROCK AND SOUL MUSEUM: $50k → 17%ROCK AND SOUL MUSEUM: $20k → 17%ROCK AND SOUL MUSEUM: $10k → 17%ROCK AND SOUL MUSEUM: $10k → 17%SAINT PAULS CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $55k → 17%ROCK AND SOUL MUSEUM: $5k → 17%SAINT PAULS CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $10k → 17%SOUTHERN REINS: $23k → 17%SOUTHERN REINS: $15k → 17%CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $75k → 17%SOUTHERN REINS: $13k → 17%CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $75k → 17%SOUTHERN REINS: $12k → 17%CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $25k → 17%SOUTHERN REINS: $10k → 17%FEDEX FAMILY HOUSE: $10k → 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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 14 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +50% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
11

Total granted

$1.9M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+50%

Still filing today

50%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthReligionYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • CH
    CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $379k · revenue +54%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2021 · $244k · revenue +68%
  • ML
    MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED
    7× · 2017–2024 · $210k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • JG
    JD GIBBS LEGACY FUND (YOUNG LIFE)
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • PC
    PHIL CANNON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • LC
    LEBONHEUR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Collegiate School of Memphis

To prepare young ladies and gentlemen for college success within a highly-structured, nurturing, christian environment.

Education
2
Harding Academy of Memphis Inc

Harding academy of memphis, inc. is a private school providing education from pre kindergarten through grade twelve.

Education
3
Christian Academy of the Cumberlands

Elementary and high school education

Education
4
Memphis Rise Academy Inc

To provide students in grades 6-12 with an excellent education, preparing them to pursue ambitious goals and succeed in college.

Education
5
Reach Memphis

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…

Education
6
The Masters Study Inc

Classical christian education school providing a supplemental tutelage, private educational program including art, latin, fine arts, history, writing, etc.

Education
7
Memphis Merit Academy Inc

Memphis merit academy charter school prepares kindergarten through 8th-grade students in memphis for success in high school, college, and life by providing rigorous academics, high-quality instruction, and character development in a…

Education
8
Campbell County Christian Academy Inc

To partner with families in providing students a christ-centered and academically challenging education equipping them with a biblical worldview as they grow in understandings, attitudes, skills, and in favor with god and man.

Education
9
Middle Tennessee Christian School

To provide an education based on christian values and academic excellence in a nurturing environment that will prepare students to become responsible, productive members of the home, church, and community.

Education
10
Memphis University School

Memphis university school is a college-preparatory school dedicated to academic excellence, cultivation of service and leadership, and the development of well-rounded young men of strong moral character, consistent with the school's…

Education
11
Chattanooga Christian School Inc

To prepare students to lead and serve with distinction while representing christ and his kingdom in all areas of home, church, society and culture.

Education
12
Tennessee Christian Preparatory School

Educate children in a christ like manner

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madonna Learning Center Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Historic Royal Palaces Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $260,000 · OtherHOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHHOPE CHURCH: $255,000 · OtherHOPE CHURCHCHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $175,000 · OtherCHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHROCK AND SOUL MUSEUM: $145,000 · OtherROCK AND SOUL MUSEUMSAINT PAULS CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $65,000 · OtherSAINT PAULS CATHOLIC SCHOOLKAPPA ALPHA EDUCATIONAL FUND: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI: $40,000 · Other+12 more: $85,000 · Other+12 moreUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $243,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI…MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED: $210,250 · EducationMADONNA LEARNING CENTER I…+2 more: $10,500 · EducationCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $379,000 · HealthCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF M…SOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR EQUINE THERAPY: $80,000 · HealthSOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR…TRUTH SEEKERS FELLOWSHIP INC: $24,500 · ReligionHISTORIC ROYAL PALACES INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureED MURPHEY CLASSIC INC: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,075,000Education$464,250Health$459,000Religion$24,500Arts & Culture$5,000Youth Development$1,000

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 budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $379,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $243,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED: $210,250 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetSOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR EQUINE THERAPY: $80,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetTRUTH SEEKERS FELLOWSHIP INC: $24,500 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetCONCORD ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCARPENTER ART GARDEN: $9,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHISTORIC ROYAL PALACES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetED MURPHEY CLASSIC INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

  • Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR EQUINE THERAPY ↗
  • Who funds TRUTH SEEKERS FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds CARPENTER ART GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC ROYAL PALACES INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds ED MURPHEY CLASSIC INC ↗

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.

Christian Community F…Community Foundation …The Kemmons Wilson Fa…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Christian Community Foundation of MemphisTN19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Glenn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Glenn Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Glenn Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Glenn Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 28 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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