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.
(an initiative of the Black Clergy Collaborative of Memphis and the Memphis Public Interest Law Center) | Addressing the housing crisis in Memphis by focusing on tenant organizing, eviction court monitoring, and public housing policy
Where history was made, a fuller story now unfolds. Memphis’s National Civil Rights Museum unveils its reimagined Legacy Building this Saturday.
In our most recent fiscal year (ended April 30, 2026), the Community Foundation distributed nearly 6,900 grants totaling almost $148 million to 2,012 distinct organizations.
New data from the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s annual State of Nonprofits research—collected in February 2025—paints a sobering picture of what the nonprofit sector is navigating right now.
