Support a cause

For over 50 years, the Community Foundation has helped people give with purpose, strengthening Memphis and the Mid-South.

We make giving easier and more impactful by matching your generosity with the causes and community you care about most.

We offer solutions and resources to donors and the professionals who advise them to help you give smarter and do more good.

We offer funding opportunities that helps nonprofits and students create positive change and build futures.

When you get involved with the Community Foundation, you join a group of people committed to Memphis’s future.

Learn more about the philanthropic hub that connects capital with the solutions that make our community thrive.

Contribute to a fund

You can choose to support funds already managed at the Community Foundation. Your contribution can be a meaningful way to support community grantmaking in perpetuity, honor an individual or family, or advance the mission of local nonprofits.

Honoraria and memorials

Donate in honor or memory of someone. The donation form will allow you to enter any details including the name of the honoree and any individuals to whom we should acknowledge the gift.

Give now

A green streetcar travels down wet tracks on a tree-lined city street, surrounded by lampposts and planters, on a rainy day.

Support community grantmaking

Donate to the permanent endowment that fuels the community investment of the Community Foundation in perpetuity and ensure strategic, responsive grantmaking now and for generations to come.

When you support this year’s grantmaking, the Community Foundation leverages your contribution to directly and responsively meet our region’s greatest needs now, through grantmaking that is informed and vigilant.

Donate to the permanent endowment of GiVE 365 and create a sustained funding source devoted to fulfilling the mission of the Community Foundation’s dollar-a-day giving circle.

Give to a family or company fund

This fund supports U.S. veteran and military-connected entrepreneurs and supports nonprofits selected by outstanding FedEx employee volunteers.

Commemorate the spirit of generous service of William A. Loewenberg and Ira J. Lichterman by supporting the agencies that were of special interest to them, particularly those that serve the Jewish community.

Join Jaren Jackson, Jr. in his effort to support the arts, education, and helping kids.

Support projects that focus on education, scholarship, career development, entrepreneurship, and health. Grant awards are determined by the group of nine African American businesswomen who established the fund.

Support Fibrolamellar Carcinoma (FLC) pediatric cancer research.

Increase access to education in underserved communities in Memphis.

Support ministries that are caring for those in need.

Support an annual holiday food distribution effort.

Contribute to a nonprofit fund

Support the mission of The Daily Memphian, a primary media source for intelligent, in-depth journalism that serves civically engaged citizens in Memphis.

Support the work of reimagining Clayborn Temple after a devastating fire destroyed the historic site in April 2025.

Support the work of The Lynching Sites Project – a group of Memphians who want to find and memorialize the lynching sites in Shelby County and the surrounding area.

Support the work of the citizen group Protect Our Aquifer, a grassroots nonprofit whose mission is to protect, conserve, and preserve the Memphis Sand Aquifer.

Disclaimer

The operation of funds and the awarding of grants are subject to the terms of the respective fund agreements. Grant recipients and amounts are subject to the approval of the Board of Governors of the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis based on the recommendations of the fund advisor(s) of each fund, as applicable.