· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| STEORTS PROP DBA CITY RETREAT MPHS | $17,000 |
| ST PAUL INSTITUTE | $17,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH MEMPHIS | $14,000 |
| MONTEAGLE SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSEMBLY | $10,000 |
| ST LOUIS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $9,000 |
| PEW MINISTRIES INC | $9,000 |
| HUTCHISON SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| ST PETER S CHURCH | $8,000 |
| TENNIS MEMPHIS INC | $7,000 |
| MEMPHIS ZOO | $6,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS GREATER MEMPHIS | $5,000 |
| ST MARY BYZANTINE CATHOLIC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
How this is measured
47 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. 47 of the 93 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds TENNESSEE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THEATRE MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Memphis Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds LUMEN CIVITATIS INC ↗
- 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 US ISRAEL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Augustine Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF CATHOLIC CULTURE ↗
- Who funds DOROTHY DAY HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sims Family Charitable Trust 44-5001145 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sims Family Charitable Trust 44-5001145. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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