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MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL

MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL (Tennessee) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,296,716 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($4,199,918). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$35M
Funders on record
52
Grants received
$16M
Net assets
$88M
37/52 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Memphis University School does

Mission

Memphis University School is a college-preparatory school dedicated to academic excellence, cultivation of service and leadership, and the development of well-rounded young men of strong moral character, consistent with the school's christian tradition.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Education grades 7-12 approximately 603 students

    $14,695,006 spentof which $518,417 as grants$15,558,424 earned by the program
    86% of program spending
  2. Financial aid for students in grades 7-12 approximately 189 students

    $2,439,324 spentof which $2,439,324 as grants
    14% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,134,330.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($18M) Expenses 100 ($19M) Net assets 100 ($49M)2019 Revenue 105 ($19M) Expenses 101 ($19M) Net assets 99 ($49M)2020 Revenue 109 ($20M) Expenses 102 ($19M) Net assets 96 ($47M)2021 Revenue 129 ($23M) Expenses 105 ($20M) Net assets 113 ($56M)2022 Revenue 126 ($22M) Expenses 109 ($20M) Net assets 101 ($50M)2023 Revenue 150 ($27M) Expenses 113 ($21M) Net assets 117 ($58M)2024 Revenue 203 ($36M) Expenses 117 ($22M) Net assets 152 ($75M)2025 Revenue 197 ($35M) Expenses 122 ($23M) Net assets 178 ($88M)
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Revenue (197)Expenses (122)Net assets (178)Peer revenue range

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 $78M to $94M (+22%).

$66M
$65M
$65M
$76M
$70M
$78M
$94M
$107M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

50% of MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,254 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$824k
’18
−$3k
’19
$408k
’20
$3.4M
’21
$2.2M
’22
$5.6M
’23
$14M
’24
$12M
’25
6.3
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.

Board chair

William V Thompson

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+2+1+1+2+3+1+3
No longer listed·2102314
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $473k → $4.5M.

16 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 UNIVERSITY SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 funders by total. 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 UNIVERSITY SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

66% 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 UNIVERSITY SCHOOL.

26%
largest funder
68%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 39% · 2019 41% · 2020 52% · 2021 50% · 2022 48% · 2023 68% — growing more concentrated.

“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

61% of MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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

50% of MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

WI
NY
OH
PA
CA
DE
AR
TN
NC
GA
TX
FL

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

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Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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

Against its field

MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin35% · top quartile
Months of reserve6.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL

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

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 20%Fundraising 5%

Governance

24
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: 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 UNIVERSITY SCHOOL?
MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL (Tennessee) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,296,716 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($4,199,918). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $16,296,716 in grants to MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,199,918 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 52 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