· Public charity
The Turley Foundation
The primary exempt purpose of the organization is to assist the community foundation of greater memphis, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $1,328,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,114,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $786,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k11 grants · $203k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC | $500,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC | $250,000 |
| MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART INC | $250,000 |
| BRIDGES INC | $125,000 |
| NEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| EMMANUEL CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| CLEAN MEMPHIS ORGANIZATION | $20,000 |
| NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE | $20,000 |
| PROTECT OUR AQUIFER | $20,000 |
| HATTILOO THEATRE | $15,000 |
| MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY | $15,000 |
| ST JOHN'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $13,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CHICKASAW COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 0% of your 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.
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 +21% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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
- CHCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC3× · 2022–2025 · $633k · revenue +21%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $258k · revenue +53%
- BUBRIDGES USA INC4× · 2021–2025 · $226k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- PPORTER-LEATHone grant, 2022 · $160k · revenue -18%
- OPOVERTON PARK CONSERVANCYone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +13%
- MRMEMPHIS RIVER PARKS PARTNERSHIP INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $26k · revenue +100%
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.
Memphis tomorrow is an association of ceos of memphis' largest businesses working to promote opportunity and quality of life for all memphians through collective action and public-private partnerships.
Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee
To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.
The pink palace family of museums inspires people to learn how history, science, technology, and nature shape the mid-south. through rich collections, thought-provoking exhibitions, and engaging programs, we encourage our diverse community…
The mission is to create memorable learning experiences through the joy of play, in hands-on exhibits and programs. we accomplish this mission by reaching out to the mid-south school children, families, and the tourist visitor.
The foundation accepts, manages, and disburses private support to the university of memphis.
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…
To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.
The memphis botanic garden exists to enhance lives by connecting people with nature to increase awareness and appreciation of our environment.
Memphis brand embraces the power of catalytic positive change that exists at the intersection of mission and marketing. through our efforts, we are generating massive visibility, energy, and investment into our community, positively…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Library Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Protect Our Aquifer. 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 39 years old; the field is 61. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 26 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 CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation ↗
- Who funds PORTER-LEATH ↗
- Who funds NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds OVERTON PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MY CITY RIDES ↗
- Who funds CLEAN MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds Protect Our Aquifer ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC 558 CHICKASAW COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HATTILOO THEATRE ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS RIVER PARKS PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds COTTON MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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 · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · The Hohenberg Foundation Inc · United Way of the Mid South · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · The Day Foundation · Lichterman Loewenberg 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 Turley Foundation 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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