· Private foundation
The Hohenberg Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k11 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| New Ballet Ensemble | $10,000 |
| Protect Our Aquifer | $10,000 |
| Metropolitan Interfaith Association (MIFA) | $10,000 |
| National Ornamental Metal Museum | $10,000 |
| Teach for America Memphis | $10,000 |
| Vox Press | $7,500 |
| Christian Brothers University | $6,500 |
| Friends of Camp Celo | $6,500 |
| Mid-South Public Comm Foundation (WKNO-FM) | $6,000 |
| Carpenter Art Garden | $5,000 |
| New York Studio School of Drawing Painting and Sculpture | $5,000 |
| Overton Park Conservancy | $5,000 |
| Hattiloo Theater | $5,000 |
| WEVL FM 899 Radio | $4,000 |
| Hospitality Hub | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MIMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +33%
- CBCHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +21%
- FOFRIENDS OF CAMP CELO INC9× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- TOTHE OVERTON PARK SHELL INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +81%
- GIGirls Incone grant, 2017 · $6k
- LLITEone grant, 2017 · $6k
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.
The mission of the urbanart commission is to create opportunities for artists and neighborhoods to connect and shape spaces through public art.
To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.
To bravely imagine the power and passion of opera and who can sing and enjoy it.
The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.
To develop a viable music industry in memphis for the future by providing a structured learning environment to enrich and equip our talents with proven tools to build the next generation of successful music professionals. the consortium…
To Create Joy through the Power of Art.
Crosstown arts is a contemporary arts organization dedicated to further cultivating the creative community in memphis. managing a variety of exhibition, performance, and production spaces, crosstown arts supports artists, musicians, and…
MBAA inspire, educate and engage artists and audiences towards the creatin of just and equitable communities through forward-thinking experiences. MBAA acknowledge that African American art and culture are living, breathing, and…
Create access to a broad array of art experiences, nurture the development and understanding of diverse art forms, and encourage the expanding depth of cultural life in the city of memphis.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carpenter Art Garden and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 33. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 33 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 NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIE MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CAMP CELO INC ↗
- Who funds OVERTON PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Protect Our Aquifer ↗
- Who funds HATTILOO THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TANNERY WORLD DANCE & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ORNAMENTAL METAL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CARPENTER ART GARDEN ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds Humanity Now ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE OVERTON PARK SHELL INC ↗
- Who funds PEACEJAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southern Communication Volunteers Inc ↗
- Who funds MID-SOUTH PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES USA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMPASSION MINISTRY ↗
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 · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Lichterman Loewenberg Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · The Turley Foundation · The Day Foundation · Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation · United Way of the Mid South
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 Hohenberg 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.