Tennessee · Nonprofit
Friends of City Beautiful
Friends of City Beautiful (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,000 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($35,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $103k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $42k
- Net assets
- $222k
What Friends of City Beautiful does
Mission
Support the Memphis City Beautiful Commission
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Beautificaton: supporting the planting of native trees and flowers in our publicapaces. we awarded grant funds to plant and maintain 137trees and over 200 flowers.
$29,625 spentof which $40,350 as grants75% of program spendingLitter Prevention: supporting ongoing litter cleanup effortsthrough providing needed tools and resources. We supported the SlamDunk Litter League involving 825 volunteers in 244 community cleanups
$7,206 spentof which $3,000 as grants18% of program spendingVolunteer Engagement: awarded 7 mini grants to neighborhoodassociations and civic groups to complete projects focused on litter preveniton,beautification, and recyling.
$2,499 spentof which $2,499 as grants6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $39,330.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Eldra White
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 Friends of City Beautiful’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
Friends of City Beautiful leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Friends of City Beautiful.
“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.
Where its funders are
83% of Friends of City Beautiful'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 $7k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Friends of City Beautiful runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,914 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,914 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like Friends of City Beautiful
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.
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 Friends of City Beautiful: 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 Friends of City Beautiful?
- Friends of City Beautiful (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,000 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($35,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Friends of City Beautiful have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $42,000 in grants to Friends of City Beautiful.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of City Beautiful?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of City Beautiful 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 2 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