· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $503k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Meritan | $237,070 |
| Porter-Leath Children's Center | $209,552 |
| Knowledge Quest | $163,563 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Memphis | $159,512 |
| Salvation Army | $138,039 |
| Alpha Omega Veterans Services | $131,839 |
| Memphis Public Interest Law | $127,056 |
| American Red Cross Mid South Chapt | $108,213 |
| Goodwill Homes Community Services | $95,456 |
| Grace House of Memphis Inc | $91,571 |
| YMCA of Memphis and the Mid-South | $89,220 |
| Alliance Heathcare Services | $86,356 |
| Hope House | $82,064 |
| Memphis Crisis Center | $69,575 |
| Memphis Child Advocacy Center | $68,171 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $19.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
132 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2025, 82 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
YOUTH VILLAGES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $5.1M · revenue +140%- YOYMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +178%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +108%
Funded once
- GUGRANTS UNDER 5000one grant, 2018 · $2.9M
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $523k
- SRSHELBY RESIDENTIAL AND VOC SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $216k
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.
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.
Advocate, educate and unite communities
To provide housing and services to low, very low, and extremely low income families.
Mental health cooperative inc. (mhc) provides integrated health services that include behavioral health care, primary health care, addiction services, and community-based care management. mhc also provides emergency psychiatric services…
Community alliance for the homeless unites partners and coordinates a comprehensive response system to end homelessness in memphis and shelby county.
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 empower individuals living with disabilities and challenges to gain independence
Warriors Center Memphis is dedicated to assisting men overcome issues related to substance abuse and/or homelessness. We meet the needs of men such as clothing, shelter, education, job training and rehabilitation.
To enrich the lives of the developmentally challenged by meeting their social, recreational and continuing educational needs.
The fair housing council of metropolitan memphis (fhcmm) is dedicated to ensuring fair and equitable housing opportunities through education, research, and advocacy and to eliminating illegal barriers that perpetuate housing segregation,…
How this is measured
178 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. 178 of the 243 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds MERITAN INC ↗
- Who funds PORTER-LEATH ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds KNOWLEDGE QUEST INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA OMEGA VETERANS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL HOMES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Alliance Health Services Inc ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS RECOVERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Grace House of Memphis Tennessee ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Kindred Place Inc ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUICIDE & CRISIS INTERVENTION SVC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds HARWOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds Shelby Residential & Vocational Services Inc ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR LIFE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Synergy Foundation Incorporated ↗
- Who funds LATINO MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC 558 CHICKASAW COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of the Mid South funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of the Mid South. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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