· Private foundation
The Grace Foundation of Memphis Inc
The primary exempt purpose of the organization is to assist christian community foundation of memphis and the mid-south, inc.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $275k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHURCH HEALTH | $1,000,000 |
| BELLEVUE BAPTIST CHURCH | $301,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA FOUNDATION | $185,000 |
| LIFEWISE INC | $150,000 |
| UNION UNIVERSITY | $125,000 |
| BELLEVUE FOUNDATION INC | $109,000 |
| ARISE2READ | $100,000 |
| WOODMONT BAPTIST CHURCH | $100,000 |
| FAVOR INTERNATIONAL INC | $100,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF FLORENCE | $100,000 |
| THE MAILBOX CLUB | $100,000 |
| DISCIPLE MAKERS NETWORK | $70,000 |
| WEST CANCER FOUNDATION | $66,000 |
| RESTORATION ACADEMY INC | $50,000 |
| AGAPE CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES INC | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $303k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 13 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $292k 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
- CHCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC3× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +26%
- UUUNION UNIVERSITY3× · 2021–2025 · $731k · revenue +11%
- LILIFEWISE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $500k · revenue +503%
Funded once
- NUNORTHRISE UNIVERSITY INITIATIVEone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- CCCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONALone grant, 2024 · $30k
- BEBarnabas E3 Ministriesone grant, 2024 · $20k
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 encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Evangelism - proclaiming the gospel of jesus christ nationally and internationally by preaching, teaching, training, publishing, church planting, compassion and disaster relief.
Gospel mission
Our ministry vision is to reach Every Child Every Nation Every Day. We teach children the Gospel of Jesus Christ and disciple them in the Word of God.
To equip men to initiate and lead for christ in their homes, churches, communities and the marketplace.
Counsel beleivers who are in need of spiritual and mental healing. bring non believers the good news of the gospel of grace. educate others on how to counsel through the word of god. provide seminars and conferences to enhance christian…
Mission quest exists to glorify god by assisting christian missionaries and to reach the nations with the message of faith, grace, and victory through jesus christ. this is accomplished through mobilizing and support of missionaries and…
Advancing the kingdom of god and spreading the gospel through preaching, teaching, and evanelizing.
To provide biblical counseling and counseling training for missionaires and local church leaders in the country of their ministry, on site and via electronic mediums.
Training churches and their pastors and staff for ministry
Christian services including missions efforts, humanitarian aide, mentoring/discipleship, establishment and covering of churches, licensing/ordaining ministers, pastoral support, all domestically and internationally.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bill and Carol Latimer Charitable Foundation. 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 28 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% 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.
83 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. 83 of the 128 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 CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds UNION UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIFEWISE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Favor International Inc ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BILL AND CAROL LATIMER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Christ Community Health Services Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MAILBOX CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ARISE2READ INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CALVARY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds DISCIPLE MAKERS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS UNION MISSON ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE SCHOOL OF MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIFA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Downline Ministries ↗
- Who funds NORTHRISE UNIVERSITY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds PIONEER MISSIONS GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds VISIBLE MUSIC COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Eikon Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds Redeemer City To City ↗
- Who funds Standing Near The Cross INC ↗
- Who funds SECRETS SAVORED 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 · Wiseheart Foundation Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Crews Family Foundation · The Urban Child Institute · Second Presbyterian Church Foundation Inc · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust · Thomas Garrott Foundation · Slingshot Memphis Inc · Servant 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 The Grace Foundation of Memphis 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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