Tennessee · Nonprofit
The MMBC Continuum
The MMBC Continuum (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $381,904 to it, the largest being Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc ($310,554). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Memphis Center City Development Corporationlocal
- Association of Women's Business Centersportfolio match
- Common Futureportfolio match
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.
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 14% · 2018 9% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $98k → $11k.
From the IRS filings of The MMBC Continuum’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
The MMBC Continuum leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 84% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 41% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Where its funders are
100% of The MMBC Continuum's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Memphis Center City Development CorporationlocalTN · funds 110 organizations near you
- Association of Women's Business Centersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Common Futureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vilcap Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Highland Project Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Goldman Sachs Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington State Microenterprise Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Impact Charitableportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Americans for Prosperityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Memphis Bioworks Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Philanthropy Forumportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Reinvestment Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like The MMBC Continuum
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Mid-South Minority Council (Tadp) · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The MMBC Continuum: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds The MMBC Continuum?
- The MMBC Continuum (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $381,904 to it, the largest being Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc ($310,554). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The MMBC Continuum have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $381,904 in grants to The MMBC Continuum, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The MMBC Continuum?
- Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc is the largest funder on record, with $310,554 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The MMBC Continuum 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing