· 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.
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
- Under $10k45 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $127k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $681k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANCTUARY COUNSELING CENTER | $125,000 |
| MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY | $122,100 |
| SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $102,050 |
| YOUTH VILLAGES | $100,000 |
| THIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES | $90,000 |
| ST MARY S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $81,500 |
| ST PAULS ANGLICAN CHURCH | $60,200 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| HOSPITALITY HUB | $20,000 |
| DIXON GALLERY AND GARDENS | $18,500 |
| COACHES HONOR | $15,000 |
| REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP | $12,500 |
| THE CENTER - MEMPHIS | $11,000 |
| HUTCHISON SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| GLOBAL FAITH PROJECT | $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 (FY19–25, $459k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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.
77 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- SMST MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL7× · 2019–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +20%
YOUTH VILLAGES INC3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +41%- TMTHIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $186k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- TMTENNIS MEMPHIS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +138%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS ATHLETICSone grant, 2023 · $25k
- SPST PAUL S CHURCH INCone grant, 2023 · $15k
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.
Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee
To prepare young ladies and gentlemen for college success within a highly-structured, nurturing, christian environment.
To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
Harding academy of memphis, inc. is a private school providing education from pre kindergarten through grade twelve.
The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…
To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.
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…
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.
To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.
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.
To equip and empower grassroots urban leaders to transform lives and communities in memphis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Christian Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Liquid Legacy. 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.
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 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
79 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. 79 of the 175 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 ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds JANES FUND ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds OVERTON PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE RYR-1 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TENNIS MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds Dixon Gallery and Gardens ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Binghampton Christian Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds COACHES HONOR INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FAITH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE FINLEY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUTCHISON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds My Cup of Tea Inc ↗
- Who funds MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THRIVE MEMPHIS ↗
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: 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
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 Thomas Garrott Foundation 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.
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.