Tennessee · Private foundation
The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2024
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $650,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 67
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $40M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 39% of the organizations The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $537k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 53 | $1.9M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 54 | $1.4M | 39% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $1.3M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $1.8M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $1.2M | 20% |
| FY2019 | 67 | $1.6M | 31% |
| FY2018 | 65 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Memphis Foundation | $1,511,222 | 7 | 1% |
| The University of Tennessee Foundation Inc | $650,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Baptist Memorial Health Care Foundation Inc | $628,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Christian Brothers University | $425,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Visible Music College | $377,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Crosstown Arts | $333,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Wolf River Conservancy Inc | $260,000 | 2 | 16% |
| Memphis-Shelby County Law Enforcement Foundation Inc | $260,000 | 3 | 76% |
| Junior Achievement of Memphis and the Mid-South Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 9% |
| The Works Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 135 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($700k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 127 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · The Urban Child Institute · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · United Way of the Mid South · Crews Family Foundation · Plough Foundation · Slingshot Memphis Inc · Thomas Garrott Foundation · Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis
How this is measured
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About The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation
- How much does The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation give?
- The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $1,929,177 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 67 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (40%), Health (10%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: University of Memphis Foundation ($1.5M), The University of Tennessee Foundation Inc ($650k), Baptist Memorial Health Care Foundation Inc ($628k).
- Does The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation of Memphis, Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation based?
- The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation is based in TN.
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