· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE | $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 |
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.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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
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
- 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
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Princeton Day School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dream Catchers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 24 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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Theodore W & Betty J Eckels Fdn-Tr 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, a single department, or state — 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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