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MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER

MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,868,000 to it, the largest being PLOUGH FOUNDATION ($4,000,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$9.8M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$5.9M
Net assets
$34M
19/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Memphis Jewish Community Center does

Mission

The mission of the Memphis Jewish Community Center is connecting, engaging, and strengthening jewish memphis. The center is a member organization within the united way of the mid-south and the memphis jewish federation.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Early childhood center - toddlercare, infant care and preschool emphasizing family involvement.

    $2,559,612 spentof which $103,053 as grants$2,507,546 earned by the program
    32% of program spending
  2. Sports, wellness, and aquatics - programs for physical fitness, wellness, rehabilitation and recreation for all age groups.

    $2,726,608 spent$896,409 earned by the program
    34% of program spending
  3. Group services - programs for individual age groups from childhood through senior adults addressing social, cultural and educational needs.

    $1,218,688 spentof which $5,052 as grants$142,085 earned by the program
    15% of program spending
  4. The center also offers day camp, health centers, family services, and other programs.

    $1,513,845 spentof which $27,974 as grants$820,297 earned by the program
    19% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,018,753.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($9.5M) Expenses 100 ($8.1M) Net assets 100 ($30M)2018 Revenue 81 ($7.7M) Expenses 104 ($8.4M) Net assets 94 ($28M)2019 Revenue 83 ($7.9M) Expenses 109 ($8.8M) Net assets 98 ($29M)2022 Revenue 133 ($13M) Expenses 104 ($8.4M) Net assets 106 ($32M)2023 Revenue 89 ($8.5M) Expenses 119 ($9.6M) Net assets 104 ($31M)2024 Revenue 107 ($10M) Expenses 129 ($10M) Net assets 110 ($33M)2025 Revenue 103 ($9.8M) Expenses 129 ($10M) Net assets 111 ($34M)
2017201820192022202320242025
Revenue (103)Expenses (129)Net assets (111)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $31M to $29M (−7%).

$31M
$29M
$30M
$33M
$33M
$35M
$36M
2017201820192022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.4M
’17
−$713k
’18
−$933k
’19
$4.2M
’22
−$1.2M
’23
−$308k
’24
−$667k
’25
1.4
months of
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

Larry Skolnick

President & CEO

Board chair

Judith Bookman

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2017201820192022202320242025
Listed58575131313031
Joined·+5+4·+4+5+3
No longer listed·610·462
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $74k.

4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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: $6.4M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Foundation of Memphis). These are real filings, and they are not money MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER raised.

From the IRS filings of MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER’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 JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

68%
largest funder
89%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 52% · 2019 44% · 2020 77% · 2021 79% · 2022 80% · 2023 30% — 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

36% of MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 6 states in all.

NY
MA
CA
MD
TN
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $99k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 1%

Governance

28
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

83%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

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Questions and answers

Who funds MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER?
MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,868,000 to it, the largest being PLOUGH FOUNDATION ($4,000,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $5,868,000 in grants to MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER?
PLOUGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER 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 23 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing