· 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.
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 $10k3 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k10 grants · $778k
- $250k+1 grant · $324k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $323,950 |
| Individual grant recipient | $130,000 |
| KNOWLEDGE QUEST | $125,250 |
| MIFA METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION | $90,250 |
| URBAN STRATEGIESMEMPHIS HOPE | $80,250 |
| YWCA OF GREATER MEMPHIS | $70,250 |
| WOMEN OF COLOR COLLABORATIVE | $64,500 |
| PLAYPOWER LT-FARMINGTON INC | $60,681 |
| CODECREW | $57,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER | $50,250 |
| SEEDING SUCCESS | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS (HERFFGEE HERE) | $47,250 |
| LEMOYNE-OWEN COLLEGE | $47,054 |
| GIRLS INC OF MEMPHIS | $45,750 |
| ADVANCE MEMPHIS | $45,250 |
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, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
61 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- STSouthwest Tennessee Community College Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $724k · revenue +238%
- KQKNOWLEDGE QUEST INC9× · 2017–2025 · $674k · revenue +113%
URBAN STRATEGIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $644k · revenue +203%
Funded once
- MSMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER (SHELECTRCITY)one grant, 2021 · $40k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
To encourage philanthropy and foster leadership among women and support programs that enable women and children to reach their full potential.
To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
Our mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.
To enrich the lives of the developmentally challenged by meeting their social, recreational and continuing educational needs.
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.
Reach memphis helps high achieving students from shelby county public schools succeed in high school, college and beyond using a continuum of services including summer educational experiences, college readiness planning and counseling, and…
To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.
To build a cross-class multi-racial progressive alliance, by combining integrated voter engagement, distributive organization, and sustained leadership development.
Jmg's mission is to keep young people in school through graduation and provide work-based learning experiences that will lead to career advancement opportunities or to enroll in a postsecondary institution that leads to a rewarding career.
My city rides makes reliable transportation affordable and ownership possible for those in the workforce with limited means but unlimited potential, increasing opportunity for everyone.
Advocate, educate and unite communities
To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.
How this is measured
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 85 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
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 Southwest Tennessee Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds KNOWLEDGE QUEST INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN STRATEGIES INC ↗
- Who funds RISE MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association ↗
- Who funds SEEDING SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of Memphis Tennessee ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds Karat Place Inc ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds PORTER-LEATH ↗
- Who funds STREETS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Memphis Inner City Rugby ↗
- Who funds HOPE WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES MATTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds LeMoyne-Owen College ↗
- Who funds CODECREW ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD OF MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALLMEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN TECHNOLOGY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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