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Do more good. Do more good.

More good for the organizations and causes you value. More good for the communities that benefit from your generosity. More good for your financial plan, with professional, strategic fund management. The Community Foundation brings it all together, so you can give where giving does more good. For everyone.

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Open A Fund

Opening and maintaining a charitable fund is simple. Start with a gift of $10,000 or more in cash, stock, or even complex assets, and experience the community impact, ease, and tax advantage that a fund provides.

Donors often increase their charitable giving because the fund grows, tax-free, through sound investment.

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The Community Foundation provides the support, assistance, and encouragement that enables you to fuel lasting change and maximize the potential of our community. Whichever way you choose to give, you can take pride in knowing you are building a stronger Mid-South and improving the lives of others.

Open A Fund

Opening and maintaining a charitable fund is simple. Start with a gift of $10,000 or more in cash, stock, or even complex assets, and experience the community impact, ease, and tax advantage that a fund provides.

Donors often increase their charitable giving because the fund grows, tax-free, through sound investment.

Learn More

Invest With Us

The Community Foundation provides the support, assistance, and encouragement that enables you to fuel lasting change and maximize the potential of our community. Whichever way you choose to give, you can take pride in knowing you are building a stronger Mid-South and improving the lives of others.

Open A Fund
Invest in Memphis & the Midsouth
Join GiVE 365
Give Now
Research Nonprofits
Open A Fund

Opening and maintaining a charitable fund is simple. Start with a gift of $10,000 or more in cash, stock, or even complex assets, and experience the community impact, ease, and tax advantage that a fund provides.

Donors often increase their charitable giving because the fund grows, tax-free, through sound investment.

Learn More
Open A Fund

Opening and maintaining a charitable fund is simple. Start with a gift of $10,000 or more in cash, stock, or even complex assets, and experience the community impact, ease, and tax advantage that a fund provides.

Donors often increase their charitable giving because the fund grows, tax-free, through sound investment.

Learn More
Open A Fund

Opening and maintaining a charitable fund is simple. Start with a gift of $10,000 or more in cash, stock, or even complex assets, and experience the community impact, ease, and tax advantage that a fund provides.

Donors often increase their charitable giving because the fund grows, tax-free, through sound investment.

Learn More
Invest in Memphis & the Midsouth

Give to the Community Foundation and be part of transforming Memphis and the Mid-South, now and into the future. 

Choose one of two ways—the FOREVER Funds endowment or this year's grantmaking—to support vital organizations and efforts to build and sustain our vibrant community.

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Join GiVE 365

The idea is simple. You give $365—a dollar a day—to make our community better. You pool those daily dollars with others. Then you decide together which organizations you want to receive the money.

Click below to visit the GiVE 365 website to learn more about how fun and fulfilling collective giving can be.}}

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Sustain the funds already established at the Community Foundation with the goal of making our community and the organizations that serve it stronger.}}

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Research Nonprofits

Discover the nonprofits making an impact in our communities. Explore profiles that include their mission, financials, programs, and more. You can support their work by donating or volunteering.

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A Track Record of Success A Track Record of Success

FY 2021 was quite a year, with a new record for gifts to the Community Foundation.

Just last year:

  • Donors gave the Foundation $216.6 MILLION in gifts
  • The Community Foundation & donors awarded $158.8 MILLION to nonprofits in grants
  • 7,057 GRANTS awarded to 2,012 DISTINCT NONPROFITS
$1.9 Billion granted since 1969
1,200 funds currently managed
$1.1 Billion assets under management

FY 2021 was quite a year, with a new record for gifts to the Community Foundation.

Just last year:

  • Donors gave the Foundation $124.5 MILLION in gifts
  • The Community Foundation & donors awarded $158.8 MILLION to nonprofits in grants
  • 7,057 GRANTS awarded to 2,012 DISTINCT NONPROFITS

What's Happening

Year-End Giving Information

(Oct. 15, 2021) See dates and deadline for year-end giving and granting through your donor-advised fund at the Community Foundation. Please note that in order for nonprofit recipients to receive grant checks in 2021, your grant recommendations should be made by noon on Wednesday, December 29.

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“To change one person”

(Aug. 25, 2021)  In 2019, Teresa and Mario Ray established the Charles E. Howard Memorial Scholarship Fund at the Community Foundation to honor the memory of his beloved father-in-law. Read an interview with Dr. Ray covering his professional and philanthropic journey, the special legacy of Charles Howard, and Ray's plans to inspire and support BIPOC entrepreneurs.

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Preserving Memphis's Musical Heritage

(June 9, 2021) While it waits for its 501(c)(3) nonprofit designation, the Memphis Listening Lab, led by a group of local music professionals, is using a project fund at the Community Foundation to accept donations and create a listening facility, library, and offices at Crosstown Concourse that opened in June 2021.

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