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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.

$3.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
61
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$4.9MEducation$3.8MReligion$3.4MHealth$1.5MHuman Services$560kYouth Development$529kInternational$419kHousing & Shelter$224kOther$0
02FY2025 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $116k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $275k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WOODMONT BAPTIST CHURCH$100,000
ARISE2READ$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
AGAPE CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES INC$50,000
RESTORATION ACADEMY INC$50,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $7k → 11%PATH OF GRACE INC: $1k → 11%ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND LIBERTY INC: $2k → 4%PATH OF GRACE INC: $1k → 11%SAV A LIFE INC: $5k → 16%SAV A LIFE INC: $3k → 16%SAV A LIFE INC: $2k → 16%THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $10k → 16%THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $10k → 16%FAMILIES MATTER INC: $1k → 17%THE EXCHANGE CLUB FAMILY CENTER: $250 → 17%THE EXCHANGE CLUB FAMILY CENTER: $250 → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $55k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS: $45k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $23k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $15k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $15k → 17%CALVARY RESCUE MISSION: $40k → 17%CALVARY RESCUE MISSION: $25k → 17%CALVARY RESCUE MISSION: $20k → 17%CALVARY RESCUE MISSION: $15k → 17%CALVARY RESCUE MISSION: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
OR
OH
MO
AZ
TN
NC
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10.0M · 71 repeat orgs$543k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
39

Total granted

$10.0M
$251k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
0%

Still filing today

75%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $292k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
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
    3× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +26%
  • UU
    UNION UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2025 · $731k · revenue +11%
  • LI
    LIFEWISE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $500k · revenue +503%

Funded once

  • NU
    NORTHRISE UNIVERSITY INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • CC
    CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
  • MI
    MISSION INCREASE
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +19%
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.

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Mission Mississippi

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.

Civil Rights
2
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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3
Genesis Global Ministries Inc

Evangelism - proclaiming the gospel of jesus christ nationally and internationally by preaching, teaching, training, publishing, church planting, compassion and disaster relief.

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4
Trinity Christian Fellowship Inc

Gospel mission

Religion
5
Child Evangelism Fellowship of Mississippi Inc

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.

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6
Christ Led Communities Inc Formerly Christian Leadership Concepts

To equip men to initiate and lead for christ in their homes, churches, communities and the marketplace.

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7
Christian Life Ministries

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…

Human Services
8
Mission Quest

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…

Youth Development
9
Damon Thompson Ministries Inc

Advancing the kingdom of god and spreading the gospel through preaching, teaching, and evanelizing.

Religion
10
Competent to Counsel International

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.

Religion
11
Church Trainer Inc

Training churches and their pastors and staff for ministry

Religion
12
Kingdom Global Ministries

Christian services including missions efforts, humanitarian aide, mentoring/discipleship, establishment and covering of churches, licensing/ordaining ministers, pastoral support, all domestically and internationally.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

83 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/83
Grantees still filing
51/83
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $1,825,000 · OtherEVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOLBELLEVUE BAPTIST CHURCH: $1,746,000 · OtherBELLEVUE BAPTIST CHURCHSHOALS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $260,000 · OtherMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $210,000 · Other+68 more: $1,811,000 · Other+68 moreCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS: $4,691,570 · PhilanthropyCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF …+3 more: $32,500 · PhilanthropyUNION UNIVERSITY: $731,000 · EducationUNION UNIVERS…UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA FOUNDATION: $444,484 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…BILL AND CAROL LATIMER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $180,000 · EducationBILL AND CARO…ARISE2READ INC: $125,000 · EducationARISE2READ IN…THE RESTORATION ACADEMY: $120,000 · EducationTHE RESTORATI…BLUE MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $95,000 · Education+9 more: $209,000 · Education+9 moreCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $1,101,835 · HealthCHURCH HE…Christ Community Health Services Inc: $150,000 · HealthChrist Co…+7 more: $18,000 · HealthBELLEVUE FOUNDATION INC: $348,000 · ReligionDISCIPLE MAKERS NETWORK: $105,000 · ReligionDownline Ministries: $51,700 · ReligionPIONEER MISSIONS GLOBAL: $49,500 · ReligionRedeemer City To City: $35,000 · ReligionStanding Near The Cross INC: $34,000 · Religion+15 more: $194,200 · ReligionLIFEWISE INC: $500,000 · Youth DevelopmentMEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF MEMPHIS: $45,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFavor International Inc: $372,000 · InternationalREEL LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $26,000 · International+1 more: $10,000 · International
Other$5,852,000Philanthropy$4,724,070Education$1,904,484Health$1,269,835Religion$817,400Youth Development$615,000International$408,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS: $4,691,570 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $1,101,835 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetUNION UNIVERSITY: $731,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLIFEWISE INC: $500,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA FOUNDATION: $444,484 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetFavor International Inc: $372,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetBELLEVUE FOUNDATION INC: $348,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $210,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBILL AND CAROL LATIMER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $180,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWEST CANCER FOUNDATION: $178,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetAGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $155,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $152,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetChrist Community Health Services Inc: $150,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MAILBOX CLUB INC: $145,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetARISE2READ INC: $125,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY: $120,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCALVARY RESCUE MISSION: $110,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetDISCIPLE MAKERS NETWORK: $105,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBLUE MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $95,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMEMPHIS UNION MISSON: $80,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL OF MEMPHIS: $60,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMIFA CORPORATION: $55,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetDownline Ministries: $51,700 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHRISE UNIVERSITY INITIATIVE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPIONEER MISSIONS GLOBAL: $49,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF MEMPHIS: $45,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetVISIBLE MUSIC COLLEGE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetEikon Ministries Inc: $37,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetADVANCE MEMPHIS: $35,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRedeemer City To City: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetStanding Near The Cross INC: $34,000 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetSECRETS SAVORED INC: $30,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetREEL LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $26,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $26,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSu Casa Family Ministries: $25,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetRONNIE TULLOS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION: $23,500 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetSHEPHERD'S HAVEN MINISTRIES INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMISSION INCREASE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOrphanos Foundation: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLEGACY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetMISSION ONE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTRAINING PASTORS INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC: $19,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVictory Ranch: $17,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetONE BY ONE MINISTRIES: $16,800 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTRUTH SEEKERS FELLOWSHIP INC: $12,000 over 5y, 3.5% 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 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 MEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGIATE SCHOOL OF MEMPHIS ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 …Wiseheart Foundation …The Kemmons Wilson Fa…Crews Family Foundati…The Urban Child Insti…Second Presbyterian C…Thomas W Briggs Found…John Dustin Buckman C…Thomas Garrott Founda…Slingshot Memphis IncServant Foundation
Christian Community Foundation of MemphisTN110.8× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Grace Foundation of Memphis Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Grace Foundation of Memphis Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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

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    Find your warmest path to The Grace Foundation of Memphis Inc 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 128 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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