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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 FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$29MEducation$28MHuman Services$8.4MScience & Tech$4.0MYouth Development$2.3MPhilanthropy$2.3MCrime & Legal$909kFood & Nutrition$625kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $237k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+5 grants · $3.2M
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$133M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UTHSC$1,055,000
LeBonheur Children's Hospital$861,000
UM Research Foundation$600,500
Porter Leath$405,000
ALL Memphis$305,000
tennesseans for quality early education$200,000
Literacy MidSouth$140,000
Memphis Teacher Residency$100,000
Believe Academy$100,000
Mid-South Food Bank$100,000
Seeding Success$100,000
MLH Foundation$100,000
SuCasa$85,000
UM Foundation$85,000
Neighborhood Christian Center$77,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Apple Seeds: $100k → 17%Apple Seeds: $50k → 17%APPLE SEEDS: $25k → 17%YMCA: $50k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TN: $50k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $50k → 17%FAMILIES MATTER: $25k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TN: $10k → 17%DeNeuville Learning Center: $5k → 17%Center for Transforming Communities: $5k → 17%MEMPHIS AREA WOMENS FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%Womens Foundation: $28k → 17%WOMENS FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $10k → 17%YWCA: $100k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $359k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $250k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $250k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $185k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $150k → 17%Neighborhood Christian Center: $105k → 17%Neighborhood Christian Center: $78k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MI
NY
OR
CO
VA
TN
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$72M · 51 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
32

Total granted

$72M
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+19%

Still filing today

94%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

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

  • LB
    Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $23M · revenue +64% · 37% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $13M · revenue +227%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +75% · 40% of their budget

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2.5M · revenue +53%
  • F8
    First 8 Memphis
    one grant, 2022 · $125k
  • BF
    BOOKS FROM BIRTH INC
    one grant, 2017 · $110k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Mayor's Institute for Excellence in Government Inc

Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee

Public Benefit
2
Tennesseans for Quality Early Education

To advance state policies and practices that ensure all tennessee children from birth through 3rd grade get the high quality early education they need to power our state's future.

Education
3
City Leadership

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…

Public Benefit
4
The Children's Museum of Memphis Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Memphis Academy of Science and Engineeri

To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community

Education
6
Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Lead Public Schools Inc

Lead public schools exists to prepare all our students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and in life.

Education
8
Leadership Tennessee Inc

Leadership tennessee fosters collaborative, non-partisan dialogue on issues of state importance, by connecting and deploying a network of diverse leaders and engaged citizens.

Public Benefit
9
Theatre Memphis

To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
10
Kipp Memphis

Kipp memphis public schools (kmps) is part of the non-profit kipp public schools network. together with families and communities, kmps create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to…

Education
11
Memphis Education Fund Inc

To work in partnership with the shelby county school district and the achievement school district on strategies that support school improvement, development, and implementation of initiatives focused on increasing k-12 educational outcomes…

Education
12
Memphis Tomorrow

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.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jessran Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySubstance Abuse Recovery Se…Nashville Community ServicesJewish Community FoundationsPublic Safety Professional …Construction Industry Assoc…Faith-Based Healthcare Syst…Youth Sports LeaguesFaith-Based International D…Christian K-12 SchoolsChristian Evangelism & Chur…Memphis Community Developme…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%15%5–10yr14%24%10–20yr11%22%20–35yr8%22%35–55yr38%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%5%5–10yr14%6%10–20yr11%48%20–35yr8%11%35–55yr38%31%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/95
the rest of the field
14%
1,912/13,744

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.

04the grantee network

87 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. 87 of the 95 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/87
Grantees still filing
59/87
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation — $23,381,147 · HealthLe Bonheur Children's Hospital Found…Methodist Healthcare Foundation — $895,760 · Health+6 more — $197,500 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION — $13,118,316 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATIONTHE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $3,973,276 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS RESEARCH…THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDA…ALLMEMPHIS INC — $1,304,600 · EducationALLMEMPHIS INCTENNESSEANS FOR QUALITY EARLY EDUCATION POLICY AND RESEARCH — $1,255,000 · EducationTENNESSEANS FOR QUALITY EARLY EDUC…+15 more — $1,258,850 · Education+15 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE — $10,317,230 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEEPORTER-LEATH — $4,898,891 · OtherPORTER-LEATHAGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $1,417,351 · OtherAGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES…LITERACY MID-SOUTH INC — $925,700 · OtherMLH FOUNDATION — $750,000 · Other+35 more — $2,752,290 · Other+35 moreNEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC — $1,476,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER MEMPHIS — $190,000 · Human ServicesApple Seeds Inc — $180,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC — $115,000 · Human ServicesYoung Women's Christian Association of Memphis Tennessee — $100,000 · Human Services+6 more — $160,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH — $1,336,189 · PhilanthropySchoolSeed Foundation — $743,750 · Philanthropy+2 more — $62,000 · PhilanthropySEEDING SUCCESS — $1,150,500 · Youth DevelopmentSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC — $605,000 · Youth DevelopmentMEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $180,000 · Youth DevelopmentKNOWLEDGE QUEST INC — $100,500 · Youth Development+2 more — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentMEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $476,000 · Crime & LegalONE BY ONE MINISTRIES — $150,000 · Crime & LegalKindred Place Inc — $95,000 · Crime & LegalMEMPHIS PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER — $50,000 · Crime & LegalTENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC — $37,500 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Health$24,474,407Education$23,410,042Other$21,061,462Human Services$2,221,000Philanthropy$2,141,939Youth Development$2,111,000Crime & Legal$818,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLe Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation — $23,381,147 over 8y, 37% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION — $13,118,316 over 8y, 16% of budgetPORTER-LEATH — $4,898,891 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $3,973,276 over 4y, 40% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC — $1,476,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetAGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $1,417,351 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH — $1,336,189 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetALLMEMPHIS INC — $1,304,600 over 6y, 25% of budgetTENNESSEANS FOR QUALITY EARLY EDUCATION POLICY AND RESEARCH — $1,255,000 over 8y, 41% of budgetSEEDING SUCCESS — $1,150,500 over 5y, 18% of budgetLITERACY MID-SOUTH INC — $925,700 over 6y, 19% of budgetMethodist Healthcare Foundation — $895,760 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetSchoolSeed Foundation — $743,750 over 3y, 15% of budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK — $625,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC — $605,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetMEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $476,000 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetARISE2READ INC — $375,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetMEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC — $350,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetHARWOOD CENTER INC — $290,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetSu Casa Family Ministries — $225,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetBELIEVE MEMPHIS ACADEMY INC — $207,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER MEMPHIS — $190,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetSU CASA - ENDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $185,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetTHE SYCAMORE INSTITUTE INC — $185,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetApple Seeds Inc — $180,000 over 4y, 48% of budgetMEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $180,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetPROJECT TRANSFORMATION TENNESSEE INC — $150,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetONE BY ONE MINISTRIES — $150,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetNeighborhood Preservation Inc — $137,790 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC — $115,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetASSOCIATION OF INFANT MENTAL HEALTH IN TENNESSEE — $112,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetBOOKS FROM BIRTH INC — $110,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetKNOWLEDGE QUEST INC — $100,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCASA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Memphis Tennessee — $100,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetKindred Place Inc — $95,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetMEMPHIS EQUITY THROUGH ARTS INC — $60,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF — $57,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE — $57,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLIBERTAS SCHOOL OF MEMPHIS — $55,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMemphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc — $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MEMPHIS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEMMANUEL CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetYMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEMPHIS PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …Christian Community F…The Kemmons Wilson Fa…Jr Hyde III Family Fo…Thomas W Briggs Found…United Way of the Mid…The Assisi Foundation…Slingshot Memphis IncPlough FoundationWomen's Foundation fo…The Kresge FoundationBelz Foundation
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN93× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Urban Child Institute 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 95 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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