Tennessee · Nonprofit
MEMPHIS IN MAY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL INC
MEMPHIS IN MAY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,070 to it, the largest being SOUTHERN HEALTH PLAN INC ($14,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $38k
- Net assets
- $582k
What Memphis in May International Festival Inc does
Mission
Organized for the purpose of providing and supporting recreational, educational, social and cultural events and activities, for the celebration of the city of memphis, people of memphis, and the people of other cultures and countries of the world by introducing memphis to the world and the world to memphis through these annual events and activities that honor a selected country of the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Providing and supporting events and activities for the beale street music festival (bsmf); providing and supporting events and activities for the world championship barbeque cooking contest (wcbcc); providing and supporting events and activities for the shelby county celebration (sc) and the great american river run (garr); providing and supporting international and diplomat events and activities that honor the selected country (intl)and education activities (ed), including year long support for the bsmf, wcbcc, garr, intl, education and volunteer events and activities.
$2,527,920 spent$1,111,215 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,527,920.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.4M to $1.6M (−70%).
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: 2022 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of MEMPHIS IN MAY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% 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
Mack Weaver
CEO & president
Board chair
Al Gossett
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $1k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $31k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MEMPHIS IN MAY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MEMPHIS IN MAY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 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 IN MAY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 IN MAY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 69% · 2020 78% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
85% of MEMPHIS IN MAY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 IN MAY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL INC's revenue fell 75% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MEMPHIS IN MAY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 IN MAY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 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 IN MAY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL INC?
- MEMPHIS IN MAY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,070 to it, the largest being SOUTHERN HEALTH PLAN INC ($14,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEMPHIS IN MAY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $38,070 in grants to MEMPHIS IN MAY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEMPHIS IN MAY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL INC?
- SOUTHERN HEALTH PLAN INC is the largest funder on record, with $14,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEMPHIS IN MAY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 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 7 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