Tennessee · Nonprofit
MAYOR'S INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN GOVERNMENT INC
MAYOR'S INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN GOVERNMENT INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,717,707 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($5,003,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MAYOR'S INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN GOVERNMENT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,002 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,002 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- Slingshot Memphis Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Urban Child Instituteshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Plough Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 30% · 2018 25% · 2019 26% · 2020 15% · 2021 54% · 2022 29% · 2023 41% · 2024 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of MAYOR'S INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN GOVERNMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income fell $1.2M → $215k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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: $1.4M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Miami Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MAYOR'S INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN GOVERNMENT INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MAYOR'S INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN GOVERNMENT 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
MAYOR'S INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN GOVERNMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 59% · 2021 85% · 2022 68% · 2023 58% — 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
40% of MAYOR'S INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN GOVERNMENT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
MAYOR'S INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN GOVERNMENT INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $321k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Slingshot Memphis Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchTN · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · funds 54 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Urban Child Instituteshared funderslocalportfolio matchTN · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · funds 65 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Plough Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchFL · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · funds 76 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Day Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchTN · backs 19 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphisshared funderslocalportfolio matchTN · backs 17 organizations that share your funders · funds 48 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas W Briggs Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchTN · backs 50 organizations that share your funders · funds 94 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchTN · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 94 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Jr Hyde III Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchTN · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · funds 134 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Memphis Bioworks Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Turley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fleetwood Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Crews Family Foundationshared funderslocalTN · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · funds 61 organizations near you
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 MAYOR'S INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN GOVERNMENT INC
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 MAYOR'S INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN GOVERNMENT INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MAYOR'S INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN GOVERNMENT INC?
- MAYOR'S INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN GOVERNMENT INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,717,707 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($5,003,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAYOR'S INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN GOVERNMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $5,717,707 in grants to MAYOR'S INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN GOVERNMENT INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAYOR'S INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN GOVERNMENT INC?
- THE KRESGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,003,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAYOR'S INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN GOVERNMENT 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.
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 9funders 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