Tennessee · Nonprofit
Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach
Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,215,170 to it, the largest being The Children's Health Fund ($1,072,750). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $-3815785
What Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach does
Mission
Mlco's mission is "to build a coordinated, integrated community practice that provides equal access to high quality care through engagement, education, prevention and intervention to improve the health and well-being of all children and families."
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
METHODIST LE BONHEUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH (MLCO) IS A 501 (C) (3) NONPROFIT SUBSIDIARY OF LE BONHEUR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION, ESTABLISHED TO PROMOTE THE COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMS OF METHODIST LE BONHEUR HEALTHCARE. MLCO PROGRAMS ARE MOSTLY GRANT AND PHILANTHROPIC FUNDED. MLCO SERVES CHILDREN, FAMILIES, AND ADULTS THROUGHOUT WEST TENNESSEE AS WELL AS IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI AND EASTERN ARKANSAS. ITS PROGRAMS AND SERVICES ADDRESS ACCESS TO SERVICES, RISK REDUCTION, CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND EFFECTIVE PARENTING, AND CHRONIC ILLNESS MANAGEMENT AND PREVENTION. THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMMATIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS REPRESENT THE NUMBER OF UNDUPLICATED PERSONS OR FAMILIES SERVED OVER THE LAST CALENDAR YEAR OR THE NUMBER OF ONE-TIME SERVICES OR ENCOUNTERS AS APPROPRIATE. ACCESS TO SERVICES: MAKING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO THE COMMUNITIES WE SERVE: Breastfeeding Clinic The Breastfeeding Clinic served 235 mother-infant dyads and achieved a remarkable 100% satisfaction rate from 209 clients. In addition, all 112 clients surveyed reported that they intended to continue breastfeeding. The clinic successfully completed 235 intakes and 230 follow-ups. CCR&R CCR&R (Child Care Resource & Referral)…
$16,309,114 spent$1,492,301 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $16,309,114.
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.
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: 2017 44% · 2018 54% · 2019 55% · 2020 63% · 2021 67% · 2022 80% · 2023 75% · 2024 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
Jennilyn Utkov
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $204k → $295k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $18M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach raised.
From the IRS filings of Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach’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
Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% 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
100% 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 Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 63% · 2019 66% · 2020 84% · 2021 74% · 2022 80% · 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.
Where its funders are
Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 4 states in all.
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
Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $21.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$20.6M
- Department of Justice$900k
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$326k
- Department of Agriculture$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 19 related entities
- Alliance Health Services Inc · exempt
- Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation · exempt
- Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals · exempt
- Methodist Healthcare Central Ms Medical Associates · exempt
- Methodist Healthcare Community Care Associates · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach?
- Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,215,170 to it, the largest being The Children's Health Fund ($1,072,750). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $2,215,170 in grants to Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach?
- The Children's Health Fund is the largest funder on record, with $1,072,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach 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 2017–2024), 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