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Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$692k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$1.2MEducation$708kHuman Services$630kYouth Development$563kEnvironment$330kReligion$288kCommunity Improvement$277kHealth$254kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $398k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $290k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Overton Park Conservancy$70,000
RedZone Ministries$60,000
Neighborhood Christian Center$60,000
Circuit Playhouse Inc$50,000
Christopher A Pugh Center$50,000
Alcy Ball Development Corporation$40,000
World Relief$40,000
Beautiful Spirited Women$33,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Dorothy Day House of Hospitality Inc$25,000
Room in the Inn$25,000
A Step Ahead Foundation$20,000
Hattiloo Theater$20,000
Bevo Boys Fitness Academy$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $477k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GRANTMAKERS IN AGING: $5k → 7%SWEET CHEEKS DIAPER MINISTRY: $10k → 17%MERGE MEMPHIS: $11k → 17%MERITAN: $33k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $30k → 17%MERITAN: $25k → 17%MERITAN: $17k → 17%COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS: $15k → 17%Explore Bike Share: $10k → 17%MY CUP OF TEA: $25k → 17%My Cup of Tea: $15k → 17%LATINO MEMPHIS: $20k → 17%LATINO MEMPHIS: $20k → 17%Neighborhood Christian Center: $60k → 17%I AM MY SISTER'S KEEPER: $10k → 17%Beautiful Spirited Women: $33k → 17%A Step Ahead Foundation: $20k → 17%FAMILIES MATTER: $16k → 17%FRIENDS FOR LIFE: $15k → 17%HOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER: $15k → 17%HOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER: $5k → 17%Hope House: $4k → 17%Neighborhood Christian Center: $11k → 17%Streets Ministries: $23k → 17%STREETS MINISTRIES: $20k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 74 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.

74 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
94

Total granted

$3.6M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
-13%

Still filing today

68%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $199k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionCrime & LegalOther

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

  • CH
    CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $100k · revenue +54%
  • RC
    Rhodes College
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +13%
  • NC
    NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC
    3× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +142%

Funded once

  • MB
    MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDENS
    one grant, 2020 · $150k
  • BM
    Brooks Museum
    one grant, 2024 · $80k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $75k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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
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
3
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
4
Creative Works

Creative works is organized to accelerate cultural and economic change by focusing on connecting, inspiring and educating the memphis creative community.

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5
Memphis Center City Development Corporation

Assist private development projects

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6
Memphis Black Arts Alliance Inc

MBAA inspire, educate and engage artists and audiences towards the creatin of just and equitable communities through forward-thinking experiences. MBAA acknowledge that African American art and culture are living, breathing, and…

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7
One Family Memphis
Human Services
8
Memphis Urban League Inc

To enable and empower african-americans and other minorities in underserved communities to achieve their highest human potential and secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.

Human Services
9
Thrive Memphis

To enrich the lives of the developmentally challenged by meeting their social, recreational and continuing educational needs.

Human Services
10
Memphis Academy of Science and Engineeri

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

Education
11
Memphis for All

To build a cross-class multi-racial progressive alliance, by combining integrated voter engagement, distributive organization, and sustained leadership development.

Civil Rights
12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Equity Through Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Collage Dance Collective. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 62. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number14%4%<5yr10%13%5–10yr11%25%10–20yr8%21%20–35yr5%26%35–55yr52%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value14%4%<5yr10%12%5–10yr11%22%10–20yr8%15%20–35yr5%27%35–55yr52%20%55yr+

The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/100
the rest of the field
14%
1,290/9,053

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.

04the grantee network

99 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. 99 of the 180 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/99
Grantees still filing
47/99
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDENS — $150,000 · Other+110 more — $2,875,063 · Other+110 moreNEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC — $75,500 · Arts & CultureNEW BALLET ENSEMBLE…CIRCUIT PLAYHOUSE INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureCIRCUIT PLAYHOUSE I…MEMPHIS EQUITY THROUGH ARTS INC — $72,500 · Arts & CultureMEMPHIS EQUITY THRO…INDIE MEMPHIS — $65,000 · Arts & CultureINDIE MEMPHISNATIONAL ORNAMENTAL METAL MUSEUM INC — $58,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL ORNAMENTAL…COLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE — $55,000 · Arts & CultureCOLLAGE DANCE COLLE…SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Arts & CultureVOLUNTEER ODYSSEY — $50,000 · Arts & CultureMID-SOUTH PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE MEMPHIS — $50,000 · Arts & CultureMEMPHIS FOURTH ESTATE INC — $48,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA MEMPHIS INC — $46,000 · Arts & CultureLorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation — $40,000 · Arts & CultureARTSMEMPHIS — $37,500 · Arts & Culture+13 more — $224,550 · Arts & Culture+13 moreADVANCE MEMPHIS — $100,000 · EducationADVANCE MEM…Rhodes College — $100,000 · EducationRhodes Coll…CARPENTER ART GARDEN — $85,000 · EducationCARPENTER A…MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC — $66,000 · EducationMEMPHIS TEA…Whole Child Strategies Inc — $65,000 · EducationWhole Child…Teach for America Inc — $50,000 · EducationTeach for A…ARISE2READ INC — $43,600 · EducationARISE2READ …ALLMEMPHIS INC — $25,000 · Education+4 more — $50,000 · Education+4 moreNEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC — $81,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORH…MERITAN INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesMERITAN I…STREETS MINISTRIES INC — $43,000 · Human ServicesSTREETS M…LATINO MEMPHIS INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesLATINO ME…My Cup of Tea Inc — $40,000 · Human ServicesMy Cup of…A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC — $38,750 · Human ServicesA STEP AH…Beautiful Spirited Women — $33,000 · Human ServicesBeautiful…COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER — $30,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY…HOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC — $20,000 · Human Services+10 more — $105,250 · Human Services+10 moreJIFF INC — $244,000 · Youth DevelopmentANGEL STREET INC — $43,250 · Youth DevelopmentMemphis Inner City Rugby — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentPURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE INC — $30,750 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS — $26,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE WOMEN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $77,000 · ReligionSu Casa Family Ministries — $48,000 · ReligionMEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC — $20,000 · ReligionOASIS OF HOPE INC — $11,000 · ReligionCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC — $100,000 · HealthALPHA OMEGA VETERANS SERVICES INC — $51,000 · Health
Other$3,025,063Arts & Culture$997,550Education$584,600Human Services$506,000Youth Development$379,500Religion$156,000Health$151,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJIFF INC — $244,000 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC — $100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetADVANCE MEMPHIS — $100,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetRhodes College — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOVERTON PARK CONSERVANCY — $97,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCARPENTER ART GARDEN — $85,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC — $81,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $77,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetNEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC — $75,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCIRCUIT PLAYHOUSE INC — $75,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMERITAN INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMEMPHIS EQUITY THROUGH ARTS INC — $72,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetALCY BALL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $68,700 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetMEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC — $66,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetINDIE MEMPHIS — $65,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetWhole Child Strategies Inc — $65,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetMIFA CORPORATION — $62,500 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetNATIONAL ORNAMENTAL METAL MUSEUM INC — $58,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCOLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE — $55,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetALPHA OMEGA VETERANS SERVICES INC — $51,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPORTER-LEATH — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOULSVILLE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVOLUNTEER ODYSSEY — $50,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetMID-SOUTH PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE MEMPHIS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMEMPHIS FOURTH ESTATE INC — $48,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSu Casa Family Ministries — $48,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetWOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY INC — $47,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetOPERA MEMPHIS INC — $46,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetARISE2READ INC — $43,600 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetANGEL STREET INC — $43,250 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetSTREETS MINISTRIES INC — $43,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLATINO MEMPHIS INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMy Cup of Tea Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC — $38,750 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetARTSMEMPHIS — $37,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMemphis Inner City Rugby — $35,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetPURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE INC — $30,750 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetLITERACY MID-SOUTH INC — $30,750 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetIRIS ORCHESTRA INC — $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER — $30,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE URBANART COMMISSION — $27,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS — $26,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTENNESSEE NONPROFIT NETWORK — $26,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …Christian Community F…The Kemmons Wilson Fa…Jr Hyde III Family Fo…The Assisi Foundation…Plough FoundationUnited Way of the Mid…The Urban Child Insti…ArtsmemphisCrews Family Foundati…Self FoundationSlingshot Memphis Inc
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN123.6× affinity78 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 · 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

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 W Briggs Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    45report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 180 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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