Tennessee · Nonprofit
PORTER-LEATH
PORTER-LEATH (Tennessee) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,766,920 to it, the largest being The Urban Child Institute ($4,898,891). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $7.8M
- Net assets
- $46M
What Porter-Leath does
Mission
Empowering children and families to achieve a healthy, optimal and independent lifestyle.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Preschool - builds kindergarten readiness skills for children ages 0-5 through the provision of high-quality education, family support, health/nutritional services and rigorous teacher development which prepare children for a lifetime of learning success. These programs include head start (ages 3 and 4), early head start (ages prenatal to 3), and Porter-Leath preschool (ages birth to 4).
$14,468,530 spent54% of program spendingEarly success coalition - promotes shared, evidence-based practices proven to improve early childhood development and school readiness.
$2,006,570 spent7% of program spendingConnections - provides individualized placement and counseling services that meet the needs of children in the foster care system.
$1,870,990 spentof which $734,105 as grants7% of program spendingCornerstone - provides certified parent educators to equip moms and dads with the prenatal and postnatal tools to have healthy babies and to promote positive development to give their children the best start in life. As pregnant and parenting families reach their potential, they promote stronger families in their own communities.generations - recruits, trains and places senior citizen mentors in community-based sites which builds relationships between children, adults and the seniors who make a positive difference in each other's lives encouraging healthy, productive and responsible communities.books from birth - provides a book each month by mail to over 36,000 children in shelby county from birth to five years of age which creates literacy connections for families, inspires nurturing bonds between caregivers and children and lasting, positive outcomes that extend beyond early childhood.next memphis - a shared service program model that helps independent childcare providers reduce costs and improve outcomes, so that they can direct more of their attention and resources to the classroom and families.
$8,689,913 spentof which $879,514 as grants$9,291,999 earned by the program32% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $27,036,003.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $25M to $46M (+86%).
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 22% · 2018 23% · 2019 22% · 2020 18% · 2021 13% · 2022 32% · 2023 44% · 2024 49% · 2025 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Sophie Duffel
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 20 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $841k.
7 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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: $48M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money PORTER-LEATH raised.
From the IRS filings of PORTER-LEATH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
PORTER-LEATH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 PORTER-LEATH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 75% · 2019 67% · 2020 47% · 2021 55% · 2022 64% · 2023 60% — 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
46% of PORTER-LEATH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
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
89% of PORTER-LEATH's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $198k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Government funding PORTER-LEATH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $109.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$99.8M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$9.3M
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 PORTER-LEATH
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PORTER-LEATH: 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 PORTER-LEATH?
- PORTER-LEATH (Tennessee) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,766,920 to it, the largest being The Urban Child Institute ($4,898,891). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PORTER-LEATH have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $7,766,920 in grants to PORTER-LEATH, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PORTER-LEATH?
- The Urban Child Institute is the largest funder on record, with $4,898,891 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PORTER-LEATH 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.
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 49 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