Tennessee · Nonprofit
THE APEX INSTITUTE FORMERLY THE INSTITUTE FOR CIVIL
THE APEX INSTITUTE FORMERLY THE INSTITUTE FOR CIVIL (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($10,000). 0 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 FY2020
- $19k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $5k
What The Apex Institute Formerly the Institute for Civil does
Mission
To support college students in developing civic leadership skills, and educating people in the memphis region about both historical and contemporary topics through scholarly research and reporting.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
The institute for civil rights and civic leadership will train an intercollegiate cohort of undergraduate students annually to research and work on civic challenges in the city of memphis. The institute will also provide public education on civic challenges for populations in the memphis region. The institute will convene an annual cohort of fifteen civil rights fellows from colleges across memphis to study public issues and engage in community service. Fellows will partner with nonprofits and government agencies where they will complete ten hours of community service each week throughout the fall and spring semesters. Fellows will also conduct research on these public issues. They will write and publish a paper outlining all of the relevant policies and laws for the issue under consideration. Their research and work will provide the foundation for a state of the city report published every two years. Civil rights fellows will also participate in weekly programming where they will share their progress working with community partners, discuss their research, and participate regularly in community building activities and workshops. Additionally, civil rights fellows will hold a…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $5k to $5k (+13%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
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 THE APEX INSTITUTE FORMERLY THE INSTITUTE FOR CIVIL’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 THE APEX INSTITUTE FORMERLY THE INSTITUTE FOR CIVIL'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. $10k 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.
Organizations like THE APEX INSTITUTE FORMERLY THE INSTITUTE FOR CIVIL
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE APEX INSTITUTE FORMERLY THE INSTITUTE FOR CIVIL?
- THE APEX INSTITUTE FORMERLY THE INSTITUTE FOR CIVIL (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($10,000). 0 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 THE APEX INSTITUTE FORMERLY THE INSTITUTE FOR CIVIL have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to THE APEX INSTITUTE FORMERLY THE INSTITUTE FOR CIVIL.
- Who is the largest funder of THE APEX INSTITUTE FORMERLY THE INSTITUTE FOR CIVIL?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE APEX INSTITUTE FORMERLY THE INSTITUTE FOR CIVIL 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 FY2020 (financials across 2019–2020), 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