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Thomas Garrott Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$2.1MHealth$1.5MReligion$870kHuman Services$484kPhilanthropy$297kYouth Development$180kRecreation & Sports$125kEnvironment$120kOther$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k45 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $127k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $681k
$2,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $1k → 16%THE FINLEY PROJECT: $10k → 13%THE FINLEY PROJECT: $10k → 13%THE FINLEY PROJECT: $10k → 13%THE FINLEY PROJECT: $3k → 13%CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER: $10k → 12%CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER: $3k → 12%THRIVE MEMPHIS: $4k → 17%YMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID SOUTH: $1k → 17%THRIVE MEMPHIS: $3k → 17%THRIVE MEMPHIS: $3k → 17%THRIVE MEMPHIS: $2k → 17%THRIVE MEMPHIS: $100 → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $3k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $1k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $1k → 17%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $250 → 17%THE HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS: $100 → 17%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $100 → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $100 → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $100 → 17%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $100 → 17%MY CUP OF TEA: $4k → 17%MY CUP OF TEA: $3k → 17%MY CUP OF TEA: $2k → 17%MY CUP OF TEA: $2k → 17%MY CUP OF TEA: $1k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $100k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $100k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $100k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER: $12k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER: $10k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER: $10k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER: $10k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER: $10k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER: $8k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER: $3k → 17%CALVARY RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 17%HOSPITALITY HUB: $20k → 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

MN
IL
NY
OH
PA
CA
MO
KY
VA
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 77 repeat orgs$332k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
82

Total granted

$5.6M
$304k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+23%

Still filing today

57%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SM
    ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +20%
  • YOUTH VILLAGES INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +41%
  • TM
    THIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $186k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • TM
    TENNIS MEMPHIS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +138%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS ATHLETICS
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • SP
    ST PAUL S CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
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
Collegiate School of Memphis

To prepare young ladies and gentlemen for college success within a highly-structured, nurturing, christian environment.

Education
3
Memphis Academy of Science and Engineeri

To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community

Education
4
One Family Memphis
Human Services
5
Harding Academy of Memphis Inc

Harding academy of memphis, inc. is a private school providing education from pre kindergarten through grade twelve.

Education
6
Methodist Foundation of Mississippi Inc

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…

Religion
7
Theatre Memphis

To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
8
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
9
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
10
Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce

To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.

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11
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
12
Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc

To equip and empower grassroots urban leaders to transform lives and communities in memphis.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Christian Centers Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/79
Grantees still filing
53/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $1,618,100 · OtherST MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOLSECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $336,175 · OtherSECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHMEMPHIS UNIVERSITY: $253,550 · OtherMEMPHIS UNIVERSITY+136 more: $1,068,450 · Other+136 moreSANCTUARY COUNSELING CENTER: $1,288,500 · HealthSANCTUARY COUNSELING CENTERTHE RYR-1 FOUNDATION: $110,000 · HealthTHE RYR-1 FOUNDATION+6 more: $53,200 · HealthYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $62,100 · Human ServicesTHE FINLEY PROJECT INC: $33,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS: $20,100 · Human Services+8 more: $43,500 · Human ServicesJANES FUND: $159,500 · PhilanthropyGLOBAL FAITH PROJECT INC: $35,000 · PhilanthropySchoolSeed Foundation: $10,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $10,100 · PhilanthropyOVERTON PARK CONSERVANCY: $113,200 · Recreation & SportsTENNIS MEMPHIS INC: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsTHIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC: $186,000 · Religion+2 more: $1,100 · ReligionYOUNG LIFE: $155,600 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $12,600 · Youth Development+3 more: $3,900 · Youth Development
Other$3,276,275Health$1,451,700Human Services$458,700Philanthropy$214,600Recreation & Sports$213,200Religion$187,100Youth Development$172,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $1,618,100 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetSANCTUARY COUNSELING CENTER: $1,288,500 over 7y, 81% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC: $186,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetJANES FUND: $159,500 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $155,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOVERTON PARK CONSERVANCY: $113,200 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetTHE RYR-1 FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetTENNIS MEMPHIS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetDixon Gallery and Gardens: $86,400 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $62,100 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBinghampton Christian Academy Inc: $48,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $43,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOACHES HONOR INC: $42,500 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetMEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $42,450 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL FAITH PROJECT INC: $35,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE FINLEY PROJECT INC: $33,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetTHE HUTCHISON SCHOOL: $25,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOSPITALITY HUB OF MEMPHIS: $20,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN DAY SCHOOL: $16,550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetADVANCE MEMPHIS: $15,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER INC: $13,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $12,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMy Cup of Tea Inc: $11,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED: $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHRIVE MEMPHIS: $10,600 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMIFA CORPORATION: $10,100 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetTENNESSEE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $10,100 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMEMPHISSHELBY CRIME COMMISSION: $9,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ONE HUNDRED CLUB OF MEMPHIS: $7,000 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetHUGO DIXON FOUNDATION 60-8802202: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetARTSMEMPHIS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetARISE2READ INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $4,700 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJIFF INC: $2,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED CANCER SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetELMWOOD CEMETERY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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…Thomas W Briggs Found…United Way of the Mid…Deborah D Tipton Char…The Assisi Foundation…Wiseheart Foundation …Jr Hyde III Family Fo…Crews Family Foundati…Belz FoundationThe Sims Family Chari…
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN79.3× affinity46 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 · 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
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 Thomas Garrott Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas Garrott Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%5%19%42%75%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
    6get no government money at all
    23report 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 175 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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