Tennessee · Nonprofit
CREATIVE AGING MEMPHIS
CREATIVE AGING MEMPHIS (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $436,754 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($175,082). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $787k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $437k
- Net assets
- $632k
What Creative Aging Memphis does
Mission
Improve quality of life for seniors by stimulating their minds, creativity, and sense of self through arts programs that engage, educate, and entertain.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Creative aging's 3 arts-based programs engage older adults at places they live or gather. Programs include the concert series, community performances, and studio courses. The 2025-26 concert series included 21 events featuring memphis' best arts organizations and individual artists. The concert series impacted older adults 6951 times. Community performances and study courses took place 1,870 times in over 110 locations across 36 zip codes in the greater memphis area, including senior centers, senior housing, libraries, museums, theaters and more. Combined 2025 programs engaged older adults a total of 61,192 times. Participants in creative aging's studio courses had opportunities to showcase their artwork at art shows held at theatre memphis, the memphis public library, and at various senior centers. Creative aging's programs help drive the local arts economy by paying 164+ artists and musicians who teach or perform as part of our classes and events. These performances and classes benefit seniors and the community as a whole by activating participants' creative capacity, building community and reducing the negative health consequences of social isolation and inactivity.
$680,454 spent$225,997 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $680,454.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $241k to $575k (+138%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of CREATIVE AGING MEMPHIS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $8k → $53k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 CREATIVE AGING MEMPHIS’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
CREATIVE AGING MEMPHIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 CREATIVE AGING MEMPHIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 62% · 2020 40% · 2021 100% · 2022 83% · 2023 47% — diversifying over time.
“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
60% of CREATIVE AGING MEMPHIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
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
100% of CREATIVE AGING MEMPHIS's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $210k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
CREATIVE AGING MEMPHIS has grown faster than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding CREATIVE AGING MEMPHIS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$100k
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 CREATIVE AGING MEMPHIS
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CREATIVE AGING MEMPHIS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CREATIVE AGING MEMPHIS?
- CREATIVE AGING MEMPHIS (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $436,754 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($175,082). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CREATIVE AGING MEMPHIS have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $436,754 in grants to CREATIVE AGING MEMPHIS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATIVE AGING MEMPHIS?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $175,082 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATIVE AGING MEMPHIS 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 11 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