Tennessee · Nonprofit
MEMPHIS KIDS IN NATURE
MEMPHIS KIDS IN NATURE (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $600,000 to it, the largest being CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS ($600,000). 1 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
- $209k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $600k
- Net assets
- $26k
What Memphis Kids in Nature does
Mission
To provide outdoor experiences for memphis area kids
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024, dedicated staff and volunteers organized 92 trips for 1,176 children and chaperones that would not otherwise had a chance to experience the joy of being in the outdoors.
$111,411 spent91% of program spendingIn 2024, a group of seven students and 2 teachers from a public charter school in memphis were able to take a special trip to the cascade mountains in washington state.
$11,195 spent9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $122,606.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $5k to $27k (+480%).
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.
100% of MEMPHIS KIDS IN NATURE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
L Peter Schutt
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $105k → $172k.
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 KIDS IN NATURE’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 KIDS IN NATURE'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. $600k 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 KIDS IN NATURE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MEMPHIS KIDS IN NATURE
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEMPHIS KIDS IN NATURE: 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 KIDS IN NATURE?
- MEMPHIS KIDS IN NATURE (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $600,000 to it, the largest being CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS ($600,000). 1 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 KIDS IN NATURE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $600,000 in grants to MEMPHIS KIDS IN NATURE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEMPHIS KIDS IN NATURE?
- CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEMPHIS KIDS IN NATURE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), 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