Tennessee · Private foundation
Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $692k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 41
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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 | 27 | $692k | 41% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $635k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $475k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $620k | 64% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $629k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $679k | 53% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $672k | 58% |
| FY2018 | 41 | $757k | 73% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jiff Inc | $244,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Rhodes College | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Advance Memphis | $100,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Church Health Center of Memphis Inc | $100,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Overton Park Conservancy | $97,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Carpenter Art Garden | $85,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Neighborhood Christian Centers Inc | $81,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Women's Advocacy Center | $77,000 | 2 | 43% |
| New Ballet Ensemble Inc | $75,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Meritan Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 99 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 80 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 93 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · Plough Foundation · United Way of the Mid South · The Urban Child Institute · Artsmemphis · Crews Family Foundation · Self Foundation · Slingshot Memphis Inc
How this is measured
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About Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc
- How much does Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc give?
- Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc reported 27 grants totaling $691,550 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Education (12%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jiff Inc ($244k), Rhodes College ($100k), Advance Memphis ($100k).
- Does Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc?
- 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 W Briggs Foundation Inc based?
- Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc is based in TN.
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