· Private foundation
Theodore W & Betty J Eckels Fdn-Tr
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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $455k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIXON GALLERY AND GARDENS | $150,000 |
| CHURCH OF HOLY COMMUNION EPISCOPAL | $100,000 |
| RHODES COLLEGE | $90,000 |
| REAL PARTNERS UGANDA INC | $60,000 |
| PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC | $55,000 |
| THE HUTCHISON SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TR | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF QUEENS UNIV BELFAST INC | $15,000 |
| WESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA | $10,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
19 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DGDixon Gallery and Gardens7× · 2019–2025 · $620k · revenue +20%
- RCRhodes College7× · 2019–2025 · $400k · revenue +33%
- RPREAL PARTNERS UGANDA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $290k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHURCH OF THE HOLY COMMUNIONone grant, 2023 · $60k
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF MEMPHISone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
See Disclosure Above.
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To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
Providing educational services to children in grades pre-k through 7th grade
The mission of hammond school is to instill in students a commitment to academic excellence and recognition of individual potential that will contribute to the development of their characters.
Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…
The university school of jackson, a distinctive college preparatory school, seeks to instill a passion for academic excellence and lifelong learning so each student will reach his/her maximum potential.
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
Thomas university is an independent, not for profit, institution of higher education with undergraduate and graduate programs that prepare students for successful careers and responsible citizenship in a rapidly changing and complex world.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 24 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 Dixon Gallery and Gardens ↗
- Who funds Rhodes College ↗
- Who funds REAL PARTNERS UGANDA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUTCHISON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
- Who funds Dream Catchers Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTSMEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Memphis & Shelby County ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES 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: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Thomas Garrott Foundation · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Sims Family Charitable Trust 44-5001145 · Deborah D Tipton Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Canale Foundation Inc · Brinkley Taf Brinkley Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The Goldsmith Family Foundation Inc · Belz Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Theodore W & Betty J Eckels Fdn-Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Theodore W & Betty J Eckels Fdn-Tr. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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