Tennessee · Nonprofit
MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC
MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,981,077 to it, the largest being CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS ($10,468,505). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Memphis Athletic Ministries Inc does
Mission
Founded in 1998, memphis athletic ministries ("mam") exists to coach, grow, and lead the youth of memphis by helping them discover their identity in christ and their purpose in the community. Mam's vision is to see identity found, hope restored, and lives changed.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
In accordance with a plan of merger filed with the tennessee attorney general, memphis athletic ministries, inc. (mam) transferred its remaining assets, after satisfying all liabilities, to streets ministries, inc. (ein: 62-1763815) effective october 10, 2025, with the final assets transferred before april 30, 2026. Accordingly, mam is no longer providing program services after october 2025; however, streets ministries, inc. Is continuing to provide program services to the mam constituents.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Prior to october 2025, memphis athletic ministries, inc. Provided year-round mentoring to at-risk youth, ages 8-18, in under-resourced neighborhoods through 8 youth centers that generally serve over 700 youth daily. Mam's programs- open recreation, organized team sports, academic enrichment, financial literacy/personal financial management, life skills and spiritual training- address the physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual development needs of the served youth. Mam, in partnership with families/schools/community organizations, implements a three step strategy to teach the youth to love god, others and themselves: 1) attract participation using organized sports2) create a nurturing environment through small mentoring groups 3) provide comprehensive programsmam's program results have been documented- 98% of active participants and 95% of participants' parents reported positive difference in the youth as a result of participating in mam's programs. Mam also partners with churches,schools and other organizations to offer community-wide sports leagues which promote community involvement and bridge geographic/cultural/socio-economic differences to 8,000+ participants (65%…
$0 spent$19,650 earned by the program
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.0M to $1.6M (−47%).
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 15% · 2021 12% · 2022 21% · 2023 6% · 2024 56% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Kevin Windsor
Chief interim chief executive officer
Board chair
Keva Latham
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $152k → $1.9M.
9 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES 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
MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 48% · 2019 94% · 2020 94% · 2021 89% · 2022 83% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.
“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
56% of MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
95% of MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC'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 $641k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Memphis Athletic Ministries Realty Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC?
- MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,981,077 to it, the largest being CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS ($10,468,505). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $11,981,077 in grants to MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC?
- CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS is the largest funder on record, with $10,468,505 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES 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.
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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 29 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