Tennessee · Public charity
United Way of the Mid South
The mission of United Way is to improve the quality of life for Mid- Southerners by mobilizing and aligning community resources to address priority issues.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 55
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.7M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $26,262
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $237,070
- Organizations funded a year
- 64 to 113
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations United Way of the Mid South funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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 | 52 | $2.6M | 4% |
| FY2024 | 64 | $3.9M | 5% |
| FY2023 | 71 | $4.0M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 78 | $4.3M | 4% |
| FY2021 | 101 | $4.4M | 8% |
| FY2020 | 107 | $8.9M | 7% |
| FY2019 | 113 | $9.8M | 13% |
| FY2018 | 111 | $12M | 37% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youth Villages Inc | $5,069,224 | 8 | 1% |
| Meritan Inc | $3,703,316 | 9 | 4% |
| Porter-Leath | $3,412,899 | 9 | 1% |
| YMCA of Memphis & the Mid-South | $2,771,720 | 9 | 2% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Greater Memphis | $2,545,730 | 9 | 11% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $2,507,269 | 9 | 0% |
| Knowledge Quest Inc | $2,386,792 | 9 | 21% |
| The Salvation Army | $2,359,546 | 8 | n/a |
| Alpha Omega Veterans Services Inc | $1,935,137 | 9 | 13% |
| Goodwill Homes Community Services Inc | $1,827,160 | 9 | 11% |
Show all 187 grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
United Way of the Mid South supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 161 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 · Plough Foundation · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The Urban Child Institute · Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation · Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis · Slingshot Memphis Inc · Thomas Garrott Foundation
How this is measured
About United Way of the Mid South
- How much does United Way of the Mid South give?
- United Way of the Mid South reported 55 itemized grants totaling $2,684,085, out of $2,864,361 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 64 and 113 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of the Mid South fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (43%), Health (20%), Youth Development (12%).
- Who are United Way of the Mid South's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Youth Villages Inc ($5.1M), Meritan Inc ($3.7M), Porter-Leath ($3.4M).
- Does United Way of the Mid South fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of the Mid South?
- 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 United Way of the Mid South based?
- United Way of the Mid South is based in TN.
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