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CLEAN MEMPHIS INC

CLEAN MEMPHIS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $920,273 to it, the largest being HILTON GLOBAL FOUNDATION ($300,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$920k
Net assets
$895k
9/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Clean Memphis Inc does

Mission

Educating youth, engaging leadership, and empowering communities to sustain a cleaner memphis.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Clean memphis drives environmental sustainability through hands-on education, waste reduction initiatives and collaborative partnerships that transform waste into resources building a cleaner, more resilient memphis for all.

    $939,758 spentof which $3,350 as grants$10,080 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $939,758.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($434k) Expenses 100 ($467k) Net assets 100 ($168k)2018 Revenue 106 ($458k) Expenses 101 ($474k) Net assets 90 ($152k)2019 Revenue 179 ($777k) Expenses 141 ($658k) Net assets 161 ($270k)2020 Revenue 172 ($746k) Expenses 154 ($718k) Net assets 177 ($298k)2021 Revenue 170 ($739k) Expenses 149 ($694k) Net assets 204 ($342k)2022 Revenue 207 ($896k) Expenses 153 ($713k) Net assets 309 ($519k)2023 Revenue 349 ($1.5M) Expenses 258 ($1.2M) Net assets 492 ($826k)2024 Revenue 304 ($1.3M) Expenses 265 ($1.2M) Net assets 533 ($895k)
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Revenue (304)Expenses (265)Net assets (533)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $536k to $842k (+57%).

$168k
$152k
$270k
$298k
$344k
$536k
$842k
$922k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 29% · 2018 35% · 2019 20% · 2020 41% · 2021 41% · 2022 48% · 2023 56% · 2024 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

101% of CLEAN MEMPHIS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$34k
’17
−$16k
’18
$119k
’19
$27k
’20
$45k
’21
$183k
’22
$307k
’23
$79k
’24
7.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Janet Boscarino

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed111310109998
Joined·+3+0+4+1+0+2+0
No longer listed·1342021
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $25k → $335k.

4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CLEAN MEMPHIS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CLEAN MEMPHIS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

32% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CLEAN MEMPHIS INC.

33%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 60% · 2021 50% · 2022 71% · 2023 75% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

50% of CLEAN MEMPHIS INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

CLEAN MEMPHIS INC draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 7 states in all.

NY
NE
VA
DE
TN
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $93k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CLEAN MEMPHIS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve7.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding CLEAN MEMPHIS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $486k on record.

Federal$486k
grants $486kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Environmental Protection Agency$486k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like CLEAN MEMPHIS INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Tennessee

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 24%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

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Questions and answers

Who funds CLEAN MEMPHIS INC?
CLEAN MEMPHIS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $920,273 to it, the largest being HILTON GLOBAL FOUNDATION ($300,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CLEAN MEMPHIS INC have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $920,273 in grants to CLEAN MEMPHIS INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CLEAN MEMPHIS INC?
HILTON GLOBAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CLEAN MEMPHIS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing