Tennessee · Public charity
The Urban Child Institute
The urban child institute is dedicated to promoting the education, health, and well-being of young children in shelby county.
- $5.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2024
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,055,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 42
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $133M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations The Urban Child Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $196k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 48 | $5.1M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $5.6M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $11M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $6.6M | 41% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $7.0M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $16M | 31% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $11M | 46% |
| FY2017 | 23 | $14M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation | $23,381,147 | 8 | 37% |
| University of Memphis Foundation | $13,118,316 | 8 | 16% |
| The University of Tennessee | $10,317,230 | 8 | n/a |
| Porter-Leath | $4,898,891 | 8 | 2% |
| The University of Memphis Research Foundation | $3,973,276 | 4 | 40% |
| The University of Tennessee Foundation Inc | $2,500,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Neighborhood Christian Centers Inc | $1,476,000 | 8 | 15% |
| Agape Child and Family Services Inc | $1,417,351 | 7 | 5% |
| United Way of the Mid South | $1,336,189 | 8 | 2% |
| Allmemphis Inc | $1,304,600 | 6 | 25% |
Show all 93 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
The Urban Child Institute supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 84 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · United Way of the Mid South · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · Slingshot Memphis Inc · Plough Foundation · Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis · The Kresge Foundation · Belz Foundation
How this is measured
About The Urban Child Institute
- How much does The Urban Child Institute give?
- The Urban Child Institute reported 49 grants totaling $5,142,575 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Urban Child Institute fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (38%), Education (36%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are The Urban Child Institute's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation ($23M), University of Memphis Foundation ($13M), The University of Tennessee ($10M).
- Does The Urban Child Institute fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Urban Child Institute?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Christian Community Foundation of Memphis, The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation.
- Where is The Urban Child Institute based?
- The Urban Child Institute is based in TN.
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