Tennessee · Private foundation
The Prentiss Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $136k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $38,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $87,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 5
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $691k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Prentiss Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $136k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $85k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $82k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $100k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $95k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $123k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $122k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $119k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memphis Child Advocacy Center | $569,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Shelby Farms Park Conservancy | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Jay Uiberall Foundation | $6,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Unexpected Blooms Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($334k), not named here.
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: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Prentiss Foundation
- How much does The Prentiss Foundation give?
- The Prentiss Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $136,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Prentiss Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (59%), Philanthropy (35%), Recreation & Sports (3%).
- Who are The Prentiss Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Memphis Child Advocacy Center ($569k), Shelby Farms Park Conservancy ($35k), Jay Uiberall Foundation ($6k).
- Does The Prentiss Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Prentiss Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Prentiss Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Prentiss Foundation based?
- The Prentiss Foundation is based in TN.
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