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WEST TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY CO UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS SPEC COL
WEST TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY CO UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS SPEC COL (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $125 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($125). 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 FY2022
- $21k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $125
- Net assets
- $28k
What West Tennessee Historical Society Co University of Memphis Spec Col does
Mission
Historical education
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Assemble and publish a newsletter relating to west tennessee history. Preserve related historical books & papers. Purchase historical books, manuscripts & other related objects with the goal to expand the collection. The collection would serve as a reference source for schools,universities or other interested parties and the members' newsletter, which provides members with an expanding knowledge of the history of west tennessee. Members'newsletters are included in membership dues.
$17,483 spentof which $14,415 as grants100% of program spendingScholarships, donations and support for historical markers
The 2 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $17,483.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $55k to $31k (−44%).
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.
100% of WEST TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY CO UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS SPEC COL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
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 WEST TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY CO UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS SPEC COL’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 WEST TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY CO UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS SPEC COL'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. $125 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.
Against its field
WEST TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY CO UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS SPEC COL's revenue fell 44% between 2017 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,184 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like WEST TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY CO UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS SPEC COL
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.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WEST TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY CO UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS SPEC COL?
- WEST TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY CO UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS SPEC COL (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $125 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($125). 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 WEST TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY CO UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS SPEC COL have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $125 in grants to WEST TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY CO UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS SPEC COL.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY CO UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS SPEC COL?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY CO UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS SPEC COL 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), 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