Tennessee · Nonprofit
MEMPHIS FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL
MEMPHIS FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $-3455
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $58k
What Memphis Food & Wine Festival does
Mission
The memphis food and wine festival ("the festival") was created in 2015 to showcase culinary excellence of local, acclaimed regional, national and international chefs, vintners, and certified sommeliers in order to benefit the memphis community. The proceeds from each festival will be used to benefit a local charity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The festival is used as a tool to raise funds for a charity located in the memphis/shelby county, tennessee community that is selected by the board of directors each year which represents the organization's only program.from time to time the formal festival is not held for various reasons such as availability of local, regional and world renowned chefs, securing an appropriate venue or special logistics required for the event. In 2023, a formal event was not held; therefore, the revenue from the event, contributions, expenses and the local charity grant are significantly lower than a year in which the event is held.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2018 to 2019, from $386k to $241k (−37%).
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.
0% of MEMPHIS FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Albert Larocca
Chairman/treasurer/directo
As listed on its FY2024 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 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MEMPHIS FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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
MEMPHIS FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL's revenue fell 101% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like MEMPHIS FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL
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
38%
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 MEMPHIS FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL: 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 FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL?
- MEMPHIS FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MEMPHIS FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,500 in grants to MEMPHIS FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL.
- Who is the largest funder of MEMPHIS FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEMPHIS FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL 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 1 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