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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
MLH Foundation$100,000
Believe Academy$100,000
Mid-South Food Bank$100,000
Seeding Success$100,000
Memphis Teacher Residency$100,000
UM Foundation$85,000
SuCasa$85,000
Neighborhood Christian Center$77,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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: $50k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TN: $50k → 17%FAMILIES MATTER: $25k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TN: $10k → 17%Center for Transforming Communities: $5k → 17%DeNeuville Learning Center: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
OR
CO
VA
TN
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
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.

04Its field

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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

87 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. 87 of the 95 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/87
Grantees still filing
58/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetMEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetApple Seeds Inc: $180,000 over 4y, 48% 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 budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Memphis Tennessee: $100,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetCASA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 14% 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 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 budgetYMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMemphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEMMANUEL CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetMEMPHIS FOURTH ESTATE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Urban Child Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Urban Child Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 95 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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