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DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MEMPHIS

DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MEMPHIS (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,233 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($18,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$235k
Revenue FY2025
10
Funders on record
$54k
Grants received
$364k
Net assets
3/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%

Against its field

DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MEMPHIS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,881 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve10.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,881 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($234k) Expenses 100 ($187k) Net assets 100 ($278k)2018 Revenue 114 ($266k) Expenses 110 ($207k) Net assets 121 ($337k)2019 Revenue 85 ($199k) Expenses 107 ($200k) Net assets 121 ($337k)2020 Revenue 61 ($142k) Expenses 76 ($142k) Net assets 121 ($337k)2021 Revenue 61 ($143k) Expenses 52 ($98k) Net assets 137 ($382k)2022 Revenue 66 ($155k) Expenses 95 ($177k) Net assets 129 ($359k)2023 Revenue 73 ($172k) Expenses 82 ($154k) Net assets 136 ($377k)2024 Revenue 83 ($195k) Expenses 119 ($224k) Net assets 125 ($348k)2025 Revenue 101 ($235k) Expenses 117 ($219k) Net assets 131 ($364k)
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Revenue (101)Expenses (117)Net assets (131)Peer revenue range

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 5% · 2020 1% · 2021 0% · 2023 4% · 2024 22% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

49% of DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MEMPHIS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,844 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$46k
17
$59k
18
$582
19
$307
20
$45k
21
$22k
22
$18k
23
$29k
24
$17k
25
11
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $8k → $1k.

4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)59% 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 DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF 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

DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MEMPHIS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

77% 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 DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MEMPHIS.

34%
largest funder
58%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2019 54% · 2020 46% · 2021 78% · 2022 72% · 2023 77%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

22% of DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MEMPHIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

59% of DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MEMPHIS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $22k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 5 states.

CO
TN
NC
MS
TX

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

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Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 263 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MEMPHIS

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

In Tennessee

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 39%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF 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 DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MEMPHIS?
DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MEMPHIS (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,233 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($18,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MEMPHIS have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $54,233 in grants to DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MEMPHIS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MEMPHIS?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $18,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing