Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Memphis, Tennessee

118
foundations with a Memphis address
$437.5M
grants paid, FY2023–FY2025
33
say they accept unsolicited
$10,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 118 foundations that gave a Memphis, Tennessee address on their tax filing — 104 private foundations and 14 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2023–FY2025. Together they paid out $437.5 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 33 of them (28%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Memphis foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 118 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 8 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in Memphis, Tennessee
First Horizon Foundation$18.6M$18.6M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Jr Hyde III Family Foundation$37,500$12.9M$50–$1.7MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc$100,000$11.5M$2,050–$2.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Formanek Foundation$161,464$7.6M$20,000–$1.3MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
International Paper Company Foundation$3,500$3.4M$500–$250,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Grace Foundation of Memphis Inc$10,000$3M$100–$1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation$17,500$1.9M$1,000–$650,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Deupree Family Foundation (2155000180)$1.5M$1.5M$1.5M–$1.6MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Bornblum Foundation$5,000$1.5M$1,000–$1.2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Hardin Charitable Trust 44-8802409$750,000$1.5M$500,000–$1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust$40,000$1.4M$10,000–$349,020FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc$20,000$691,550$100–$80,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Hw Durham Foundation Inc$15,000$474,545$500–$65,716FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Jonathan P Formanek Foundation$5,000$417,500$1,500–$175,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Hattie G Watkins Educational Fund$274,515$274,515—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Lawrence Lewis Foundation$2,500$254,368$200–$35,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Anchor 39 Foundation$5,000$164,250$1,000–$150,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Hohenberg Foundation Inc$6,250$107,500$3,000–$10,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Bernard and Shirley Lapides Foundation$2,500$70,000$500–$19,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
William P and Marie R Lowenstein$15,000$44,000$5,000–$24,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Delta Boule Charitable Foundation$5,000$35,000One amountFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
David M Slott Ars Employee Assistance$53,250$28,000$28,000–$78,500FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Astrobiology Research Trust$19,981$20,005$11,800–$20,005FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Flora Belle Moss and Bessie Abigail$1,000$15,000$500–$6,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Carlos H Cantu Family Foundation$1,000$14,000$1,000–$5,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.
  • A median grant larger than the grants paid is not a mistake: the grant schedule and the year’s total come from different parts of the tax filing, and a foundation can list a grant it approved in a year it paid out less.

93 more foundations — see all in Grantlas

Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2023–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.