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The MBM Foundation at a glance

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The MBM 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.

$66k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$103kHousing & Shelter$100kRecreation & Sports$59kInternational$25kReligion$25kHuman Services$20kHealth$16kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$880k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ed Murphey Classic$34,000
Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association$10,000
Church Health$10,000
Palmer Home for Children$5,000
Chickasaw Council$5,000
Bamf Health$1,000
ArtsMemphis$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%Palmer Home for Children: $5k → 10%Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $10k → 17%METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATIO: $5k → 17%THE HOSPITALITY HUB: $100k → 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 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
One Family Memphis
Human Services
2
Children's Foundation of Memphis
Health
3
Memphis Union Misson

Memphis union mission exists to glorify god and make disciples of jesus christ by ministering to the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of men and women who are homeless or destitute.

Housing & Shelter
4
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis, Inc. sees a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children. They provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and…

Health
5
Mayor's Institute for Excellence in Government Inc

Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee

Public Benefit
6
University of Memphis Foundation

The foundation accepts, manages, and disburses private support to the university of memphis.

Education
7
Community Alliance for the Homeless

Community alliance for the homeless unites partners and coordinates a comprehensive response system to end homelessness in memphis and shelby county.

Human Services
8
The Meadows Housing Corporation Inc

To provide housing and services to low, very low, and extremely low income families.

Housing & Shelter
9
Memphis Health Center Inc

Healthcare services to Low-income individuals to provide safe, quality, affordable, effective, and comprehensive health care services to the citizens of Shelby and Fayette counties.

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10
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
11
Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce

To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.

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12
Mississippi Food Network Inc

To relieve poverty-related hunger by distributing donated and purchased food and grocery products through a network of member churches and nonprofit organizations; to provide nutrition education to the needy; and to emphasize advocacy and…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-South Food Bank; the most unlike its peers is Palmer Home for Children. 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 16 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHISMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $15,000 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Inter-Faith AssociationPALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 · Human ServicesMEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC: $100,000 · EducationMEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP…+1 more: $2,500 · EducationED MURPHEY CLASSIC INC: $59,000 · Youth DevelopmentED MURPHEY CLASSIC…CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherCHRIST EPIS…CBHS ANNUAL FUND: $5,000 · OtherCBHS ANNUAL…Chickasaw Council: $5,000 · OtherChickasaw C…+3 more: $3,000 · Other+3 moreSLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $10,000 · HealthARTSMEMPHIS: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$120,000Education$102,500Youth Development$59,000Other$38,000Philanthropy$25,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Health$10,000Arts & Culture$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 budgetMEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetTHE HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetED MURPHEY CLASSIC INC: $59,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetSLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTSMEMPHIS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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…Rose Montgomery Johns…The Kemmons Wilson Fa…Community Foundation …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Christian Community Foundation of MemphisTN15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Rose Montgomery Johnston Family Foundation · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · 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 MBM Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The MBM Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 16 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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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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