Tennessee · Nonprofit
LEADERSHIP MEMPHIS
LEADERSHIP MEMPHIS (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $345,242 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($270,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $710k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $345k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Leadership Memphis does
Mission
A city is only as strong as it's base of community leaders. For 40 years Leadership Memphis has focused on bringing leaders together to learn about their community. What is going on? What is and isn't working? Who is doing what? How does community work best? Where can I have the most impact? In answering questions such as these, participants can leverage their deeper community learning into greater community impact. Thus, many networks are formed to make a meaningful difference.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
During fy2024 Leadership Memphis offered two programs: the executive program and the fasttrack program. The executive program is a nine-month civic leadership development experience designed for senior-level professionals and executives in memphis. It runs from august to april and provides participants with an in-depth understanding of the city's challenges and opportunities, while equipping them with the tools to create impactful change across sectors. The program includes 8 core sessions, which cover topics such as: social & community context, government & public policy, economic development, educational equity, health & wellness, neighborhood & built environment, hunger & homelessness, and arts & culture.in addition to the core sessions, participants are required to complete 40 hours of service during the program. Each of the participants is also assigned to a community group where they complete a community action project, working on initiatives that align with their neighborhoods and the broader goals of community impact. The community groups include berclair, binghampton, douglass, frayser, hamilton, hickory hill, orange mound, and whitehaven.in total, the fy2024 cohort has…
$1,418,578 spent$1,258,846 earned by the program81% of program spendingVolunteer memphis (vm) was previously known as volunteer mid-south. It became an action initiative of Leadership Memphis in 2015 and strives to increase volunteerism throughout the memphis area. During fy2024 vm produced the 4-day mlk days of service featuring 25 service projects with 40 community partners and more than 1200 volunteers. Vm held and/or participated in multiple health fairs with over 350 attendees and 25 vendors providing resources on housing, healthcare, education and veteran empowerment. Vm also hosted the volunteer memphis awards to recognize over 300,000 people who volunteer in the memphis area every year. Nearly 250 individuals, nonprofits and businesses were nominated for awards in 8 categories and the awards virtual reception had more than 200 attendees pre and post event. Vm also organizes the make a difference week that coordinates financial literacy sessions with students in middle and high school across shelby county. Companies work with volunteer memphis to organize employee service projects and individuals; families and teams can visit the vm website to find volunteer opportunities posted by nonprofits in search of volunteers.
$325,006 spent$32,563 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,743,584.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2.6M to $1.8M (−30%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 11% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $175k → $26k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $539k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LEADERSHIP MEMPHIS raised.
From the IRS filings of LEADERSHIP 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
LEADERSHIP MEMPHIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 88% · 2019 90% · 2020 91% · 2021 74% · 2022 97% · 2023 60% — 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
44% of LEADERSHIP MEMPHIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
LEADERSHIP MEMPHIS draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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.
Organizations like LEADERSHIP 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
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 LEADERSHIP 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 LEADERSHIP MEMPHIS?
- LEADERSHIP MEMPHIS (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $345,242 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($270,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEADERSHIP MEMPHIS have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $345,242 in grants to LEADERSHIP MEMPHIS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEADERSHIP MEMPHIS?
- THE KRESGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $270,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEADERSHIP 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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