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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 FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$324k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$3.2MYouth Development$2.8MEducation$2.4MRecreation & Sports$419kEmployment$337kHealth$324kArts & Culture$296kHousing & Shelter$276kOther$0
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 51 grants below total $2,144,003, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,245,030 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $101,027 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $778k
  • $250k+1 grant · $324k
$30,250
Median grant
4
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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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.

area typical 12%NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $60k → 17%NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%RISE FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%RISE FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%RISE FOUNDATION: $226k → 17%RISE FOUNDATION: $175k → 17%RISE FOUNDATION: $41k → 17%RISE MEMPHIS FOUNDATION INC: $40k → 17%RISE FOUNDATION: $30k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $30k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $30k → 17%RISE FOUNDATION: $26k → 17%RISE FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $25k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $25k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER: $50k → 17%A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION: $34k → 17%A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION: $34k → 17%A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION: $34k → 17%A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION: $33k → 17%A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION: $27k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER: $25k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER: $25k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER: $25k → 17%FAMILIES MATTER: $43k → 17%MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC: $30k → 17%FAMILIES MATTER: $25k → 17%URBAN STRATEGIESMEMPHIS HOPE: $100k → 17%URBAN STRATEGIESMEMPHIS HOPE: $98k → 17%MIFA METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $90k → 17%URBAN STRATEGIESMEMPHIS HOPE: $80k → 17%URBAN STRATEGIESMEMPHIS HOPE: $80k → 17%URBAN STRATEGIESMEMPHIS HOPE: $75k → 17%YWCA OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $70k → 17%URBAN STRATEGIESMEMPHIS HOPE: $60k → 17%YWCA OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $55k → 17%URBAN STRATEGIESMEMPHIS HOPE: $50k → 17%URBAN STRATEGIESMEMPHIS HOPE: $50k → 17%URBAN STRATEGIESMEMPHIS HOPE: $50k → 17%METROPOLITAN INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION: $45k → 17%YWCA OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $40k → 17%MIFA METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $40k → 17%MIFA METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $40k → 17%MIFA METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $40k → 17%MIFA METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $40k → 17%MIFA METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $35k → 17%MIFA METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $35k → 17%YWCA OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $30k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
VA
TN
NC
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 61 repeat orgs$517k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
18

Total granted

$10M
$232k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+92%

Still filing today

69%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k 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
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCrime & LegalEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ST
    Southwest Tennessee Community College Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $724k · revenue +238%
  • KQ
    KNOWLEDGE QUEST INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $674k · revenue +113%
  • URBAN STRATEGIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $644k · revenue +203%

Funded once

  • MS
    MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER (SHELECTRCITY)
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one 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.

04Its field

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.

1
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.

Human Services
2
Memphis Academy of Science and Engineeri

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

Education
3
The Collective Blueprint

Our mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.

Employment
4
Thrive Memphis

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

Human Services
5
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
6
Reach Memphis

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…

Education
7
Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce

To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.

—
8
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
9
Jobs for Mississippi Graduates Inc

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.

—
10
My City Rides

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.

Employment
11
Memphis Center for Independent Living

Advocate, educate and unite communities

—
12
Theatre Memphis

To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Challenge Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
28/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $643,583 · Human ServicesURBAN STRATEGIES INCRISE MEMPHIS INC: $612,633 · Human ServicesRISE MEMPHIS INCMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $390,250 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Inter-Faith Associatio…Young Women's Christian Association of Memphis Tennessee: $265,250 · Human ServicesYoung Women's Christian Association…NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $250,250 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INCSTREETS MINISTRIES INC: $230,750 · Human ServicesSTREETS MINISTRIES INCA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC: $180,250 · Human ServicesFAMILIES MATTER INC: $171,750 · Human ServicesMEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC: $170,250 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD OF MEMPHIS: $122,750 · Human Services+5 more: $398,450 · Human Services+5 moreUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS PROJECTS: $259,512 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS PROJECTSGIRLS INCORPORATED OF MEMPHIS: $259,250 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATED OF MEMPHISPORTER-LEATH: $234,837 · OtherPORTER-LEATHUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS (HERFFGEE HERE): $232,250 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS (HERFFGEE H…EARLY SUCCESS COALITION: $225,250 · OtherEARLY SUCCESS COALITIONVANCE AVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $197,750 · OtherVANCE AVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTE…UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHISCREP: $144,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $130,000 · OtherBOOKER T WASHINGTON SCHOOL: $127,750 · OtherMUSTARD SEED INC: $117,500 · OtherNEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC: $180,986 · OtherNEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC+39 more: $1,094,051 · Other+39 moreSouthwest Tennessee Community College Foundation: $723,950 · EducationSouthwest Tennessee…ADVANCE MEMPHIS: $445,380 · EducationADVANCE MEMPHISTHE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $190,750 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF M…LeMoyne-Owen College: $154,697 · EducationLeMoyne-Owen Colleg…CODECREW: $130,800 · EducationCODECREWALLMEMPHIS INC: $107,250 · EducationALLMEMPHIS INCKIDS IN TECHNOLOGY: $87,250 · Education+1 more: $32,049 · EducationKNOWLEDGE QUEST INC: $673,684 · Youth DevelopmentKNOWLEDGE QUEST I…SEEDING SUCCESS: $350,000 · Youth DevelopmentSEEDING SUCCESSBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $261,107 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CL…Memphis Inner City Rugby: $213,750 · Youth DevelopmentMemphis Inner Cit…GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF THE SOUTH: $129,750 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS HEART…JIFF INC: $68,250 · Youth Development+1 more: $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentKarat Place Inc: $257,750 · Crime & LegalKindred Place Inc: $25,000 · Crime & LegalHOPE WORKS INC: $198,250 · EmploymentSPECIALTY PERFORMANCE TRAINING MEMPHIS WELDING SCHOOL: $40,000 · EmploymentEMMANUEL CENTER INC: $228,750 · Religion
Human Services$3,436,166Other$3,203,636Education$1,872,126Youth Development$1,714,041Crime & Legal$282,750Employment$238,250Religion$228,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouthwest Tennessee Community College Foundation: $723,950 over 9y, 23% of budgetKNOWLEDGE QUEST INC: $673,684 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetURBAN STRATEGIES INC: $643,583 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetRISE MEMPHIS INC: $612,633 over 9y, 20% of budgetADVANCE MEMPHIS: $445,380 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $390,250 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetSEEDING SUCCESS: $350,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Memphis Tennessee: $265,250 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $261,107 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF MEMPHIS: $259,250 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetKarat Place Inc: $257,750 over 9y, 32% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC: $250,250 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetPORTER-LEATH: $234,837 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSTREETS MINISTRIES INC: $230,750 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetEMMANUEL CENTER INC: $228,750 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetMemphis Inner City Rugby: $213,750 over 9y, 7.8% of budgetHOPE WORKS INC: $198,250 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $190,750 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetNEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC: $180,986 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC: $180,250 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetFAMILIES MATTER INC: $171,750 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetMEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC: $170,250 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetLeMoyne-Owen College: $154,697 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCODECREW: $130,800 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF THE SOUTH: $129,750 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetHOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD OF MEMPHIS: $122,750 over 9y, 9.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $109,450 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetALLMEMPHIS INC: $107,250 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS MEMPHIS: $98,250 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetHOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC: $96,800 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS IN TECHNOLOGY: $87,250 over 4y, 60% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH INC: $85,250 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJIFF INC: $68,250 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetMemphis Challenge Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetMEMPHIS BLACK ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $45,250 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetSOULSVILLE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMEMPHIS LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $32,049 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKindred Place Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLinks Inc: $17,500 over 3y, 16% of budgetANGEL STREET INC: $17,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSouth Memphis Alliance Inc: $17,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFAMILY SAFETY CENTER OF MEMPHIS AND SHELBY COUNTY INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLITERACY MID-SOUTH INC: $9,750 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPCS FOR PEOPLE: $8,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $5,225 over 1y, 2.2% of budget
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.

Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN66.9× affinity35 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 · 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
    27report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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