Tennessee · Public charity
Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis
To encourage philanthropy and foster leadership among women and support programs that enable women and children to reach their full potential.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $323,950
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 50
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k 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 | 51 | $2.1M | 12% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $1.7M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $1.9M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $1.3M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $1.1M | 11% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $733k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $789k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $691k | 10% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Tennessee Community College Foundation | $723,950 | 9 | 23% |
| Knowledge Quest Inc | $673,684 | 9 | 5% |
| Urban Strategies Inc | $643,583 | 9 | 1% |
| Rise Memphis Inc | $612,633 | 9 | 20% |
| Advance Memphis | $445,380 | 9 | 2% |
| Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association | $390,250 | 9 | 1% |
| Seeding Success | $350,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Young Women's Christian Association of Memphis Tennessee | $265,250 | 9 | 3% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Greater Memphis | $261,107 | 9 | 1% |
| Girls Incorporated of Memphis | $259,250 | 9 | 4% |
Show all 56 grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 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 · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · United Way of the Mid South · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Slingshot Memphis Inc · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The Urban Child Institute · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · The Day Foundation · Memphis Equity Through Arts Inc
How this is measured
Compare Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis with peer funders
About Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis
- How much does Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis give?
- Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis reported 51 itemized grants totaling $2,144,003, out of $2,245,030 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Youth Development (25%), Education (22%).
- Who are Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Southwest Tennessee Community College Foundation ($724k), Knowledge Quest Inc ($674k), Urban Strategies Inc ($644k).
- Does Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation, United Way of the Mid South.
- Where is Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis based?
- Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis is based in TN.
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