Florida · Private foundation
Thomas Garrott Foundation
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.
- $895k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 60
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 70
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Thomas Garrott Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 60 | $895k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $864k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $984k | 34% |
| FY2022 | 60 | $750k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 70 | $863k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $727k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $891k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary's Episcopal School | $1,618,100 | 7 | 2% |
| Sanctuary Counseling Center | $1,288,500 | 7 | 81% |
| Second Presbyterian Church | $336,175 | 7 | n/a |
| Youth Villages Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Third Millennium Ministries Inc | $186,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Janes Fund | $159,500 | 3 | 4% |
| Young Life | $155,600 | 7 | 0% |
| Overton Park Conservancy | $113,200 | 4 | 2% |
| The Ryr-1 Foundation | $110,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Tennis Memphis Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 8% |
Show all 92 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 83 recipients with no EIN on record ($696k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Thomas Garrott Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 73 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · United Way of the Mid South · Deborah D Tipton Charitable Foundation · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · Wiseheart Foundation Inc · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Crews Family Foundation · Belz Foundation · The Sims Family Charitable Trust 44-5001145
How this is measured
About Thomas Garrott Foundation
- How much does Thomas Garrott Foundation give?
- Thomas Garrott Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $894,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 70 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Thomas Garrott Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Health (25%), Religion (15%).
- Who are Thomas Garrott Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: St Mary's Episcopal School ($1.6M), Sanctuary Counseling Center ($1.3M), Second Presbyterian Church ($336k).
- Does Thomas Garrott Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thomas Garrott Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Thomas Garrott Foundation?
- 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 Thomas Garrott Foundation based?
- Thomas Garrott Foundation is based in FL.
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