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The Sims Family Charitable Trust 44-5001145
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of THE SIMS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST 44-5001145’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $123k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TENNESSEE SHAKESPEARE CO | $75,000 |
| MEMPHIS UNIV SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF MEMPHIS | $25,000 |
| ST PAUL INSTITUTE | $17,000 |
| STEORTS PROP DBA CITY RETREAT MPHS | $17,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH MEMPHIS | $14,000 |
| MONTEAGLE SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSEMBLY | $10,000 |
| PEW MINISTRIES INC | $9,000 |
| ST LOUIS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $9,000 |
| ST PETER S CHURCH | $8,000 |
| HUTCHISON SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| TENNIS MEMPHIS INC | $7,000 |
| MEMPHIS ZOO | $6,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS GREATER MEMPHIS | $5,000 |
| ST MARY BYZANTINE CATHOLIC | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +36% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- TSTENNESSEE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY9× · 2017–2025 · $371k · revenue +69%
- TMTHEATRE MEMPHIS8× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +5%
- MUMEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- STST THERESA THE LITTLE FLOWERone grant, 2021 · $20k
- SPSteorts Prop DBA City Retreat Memphisone grant, 2023 · $15k
- WOWORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +42%
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.
To prepare young ladies and gentlemen for college success within a highly-structured, nurturing, christian environment.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee
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.
City leadership's mission is to recruit, develop, and catalyze leaders for the benefit of the city of memphis. the organization was founded in order to maximize the leadership capital and potential of memphis. city leadership strives to…
Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tennessee Arts Foundation. 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 93 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 TENNESSEE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THEATRE MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LUMEN CIVITATIS INC ↗
- Who funds Memphis Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Dixon Gallery and Gardens ↗
- Who funds Pew Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUTCHISON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds TENNIS MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Memphis Coalition for Life ↗
- Who funds Augustine Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds US ISRAEL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF CATHOLIC CULTURE ↗
- Who funds DOROTHY DAY HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Deborah D Tipton Charitable Foundation · Thomas Garrott Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · Belz Foundation · Self Foundation · Plough Foundation · Rose Montgomery Johnston Family Foundation
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 Sims Family Charitable Trust 44-5001145 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.
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