Tennessee · Nonprofit
MEMPHIS TOURISM EDUCATION FOUNDATION D/B/A WELCOME TO MEMPHIS
MEMPHIS TOURISM EDUCATION FOUNDATION D/B/A WELCOME TO MEMPHIS (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,090,827 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($1,090,827). 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 FY2025
- $161
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $26k
What Memphis Tourism Education Foundation D/B/A Welcome to Memphis does
Mission
The Memphis Tourism Education Foundation D/B/A Welcome to Memphis' mission is to deliver authentic memphis hospitality through a trained and motivated workforce. The foundation supports tourism and hospitality professionals across the spectrum of the industry. Working directly with employers, supervisors, and guest contact staff, the foundation delivers professional development training, certification, recognition and resources. Through this effort, the foundation assists the memphis convention & visitors bureau in furthering the bureau's stated mission.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Promoting a new standard of customer service and raising expectations of hospitality and tourism professionals by supporting them in their interactions with visitors across the memphis area.
$0 spentProviding professional development training and certifications for people who interact with visitors - aka "first impression" professionals. These classes increase participants' customer service skills and destination knowledge.
$0 spentRecognizing professional excellence by honoring guest-contact employees who have gone above and beyond at the foundation's annual pick awards event. Great service is recognized weekly on social media outlets as well.
$0 spent
The 3 programs 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 2019 to 2020, from $25k to $138k (+446%).
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: 2021 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of MEMPHIS TOURISM EDUCATION FOUNDATION D/B/A WELCOME TO MEMPHIS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (77% 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.
Board chair
Deni Reily
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $103k → $988k.
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 TOURISM EDUCATION FOUNDATION D/B/A WELCOME TO MEMPHIS’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 TOURISM EDUCATION FOUNDATION D/B/A WELCOME TO MEMPHIS'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. $1.1M 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 TOURISM EDUCATION FOUNDATION D/B/A WELCOME TO MEMPHIS's revenue fell 99% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MEMPHIS TOURISM EDUCATION FOUNDATION D/B/A WELCOME TO MEMPHIS
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In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MEMPHIS TOURISM EDUCATION FOUNDATION D/B/A WELCOME TO MEMPHIS?
- MEMPHIS TOURISM EDUCATION FOUNDATION D/B/A WELCOME TO MEMPHIS (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,090,827 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($1,090,827). 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 TOURISM EDUCATION FOUNDATION D/B/A WELCOME TO MEMPHIS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,090,827 in grants to MEMPHIS TOURISM EDUCATION FOUNDATION D/B/A WELCOME TO MEMPHIS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEMPHIS TOURISM EDUCATION FOUNDATION D/B/A WELCOME TO MEMPHIS?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,090,827 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEMPHIS TOURISM EDUCATION FOUNDATION D/B/A WELCOME TO MEMPHIS 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 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