New Grants Awarded - Q4 2025
$6.947 million for 24 community partners driving opportunity, equity, and success for Memphis.
The Foundation’s largest funding cycle of 2025 awarded 24 grants to partners working in the foundation’s impact areas: education, arts and culture, neighborhoods and public spaces, and leadership and civic pride.
“Lasting change happens when strong leaders and organizations have the resources they need to succeed. These investments support the people and places making a difference across Memphis, from classrooms and cultural spaces to neighborhoods and civic institutions. We’re honored to support our partners as they move our city forward. Together, we’re building a thriving, unified Memphis for all.”
- Barbara Hyde, Chair and CEO, Hyde Family Foundation
The Q4 grantees advance goals and outcomes across four impact areas.
The grants in education aim to ensure that every child in Memphis has access to a high-quality education and a clear pathway to opportunity. The Foundation’s investments support strong educators, targeted whole-child supports, and advocacy that fosters effective policy conditions for educators, schools, and students.
"Hyde Family Foundation has been a longstanding and valued partner in our efforts to expand educational excellence in Memphis. Their continued investment enables us to recruit, develop, and support high-performing educators who are deeply committed to student success. Together, we share a commitment to ensuring that all children in Memphis have access to a high-quality education. We are deeply grateful for the Foundation’s sustained support of Memphis educators, students, and schools."
- Christopher Coleman, Executive Director, Teach for America Memphis
The grants in the arts and culture sector seek to create a vibrant arts community in Memphis that boosts economic and social engagement and enhances our national reputation through strategic assistance and general operating support to arts intermediaries and culture organizations.
"This investment helps us to grow and support the next generation of contemporary artists, ensuring that Memphis' arts scene is truly reflective of the creativity, diversity and energy found in young Memphians. We're proud to be able to champion new ideas and support emerging artistic voices. We value our ongoing partnership and the Foundation's commitment to a vibrant and inclusive arts ecosystem in Memphis."In neighborhoods and public spaces we support compelling, vibrant public spaces, safe, comfortable neighborhoods and the community development ecosystem that make them possible.”
- Derek Patterson, Executive Director, Contemporary Arts Memphis
The grants in the neighborhoods and public spaces sector support vibrant, connected communities that expand economic opportunity and increase quality of life by advancing safe, accessible and well-used public and civic spaces, while furthering neighborhood priorities and strengthening a thriving community development ecosystem.
"We're thrilled to have Hyde Family Foundation's support as we work to strengthen neighborhoods and expand access to affordable homeownership opportunities. This investment will help us pilot and evaluate a new program to ensure that our work creates safe and resilient neighborhoods. We value Hyde Foundation's support and are proud to share a commitment to vibrant communities where all Memphians can thrive."
- Dwayne Spencer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis
The grants in the leadership and civic pride sector aim to build Memphis’ civic ecosystem to advance a shared positive future by improving the Memphis narrative, ensuring a well-informed and civically-engaged public and attracting, engaging and growing a diverse pipeline of next generation leaders.
"We're proud to partner with Hyde Family Foundation in our work to develop, activate, and retain talent in Memphis. This investment strengthens our ability to connect, equip and empower leaders committed to building a positive future for our city. Beyond financial support for the New Memphis mission, we value the Foundation as a thought partner as we consider how to shape Memphis’s future for the better. Together, we're creating a more engaged, more inclusive civic culture."
Anna Mullins Ellis, Chief Executive Officer, New Memphis
This latest commitment brings the foundation’s total investment in Memphis to more than $300 million since its founding in 1992. Of the 24 grantees, 19 are renewals with five representing new partners or initiatives, reflecting the foundation’s lasting commitment to its partners.
These investments demonstrate the foundation’s strong and enduring belief in a positive future for Memphis and for Memphians. Grantees work to close the achievement gap, build a vibrant arts ecosystem, create strong neighborhoods and to grow and support the next generation of Memphis leaders will create a stronger, more equitable, more vibrant Memphis for all.
Q4 grants by impact area
Education
KIPP Memphis
PIVOT: School Improvement Leaders
Teach for America - Memphis
tnAchieves
TennesseeCAN
Arts & Culture
Ballet Memphis
Contemporary Arts Memphis
Crosstown Radio Partnership
Iris Collective
Memphis Slim Collaboratory
Princeton James Project
PRIZM Ensemble
Leadership & Civic Pride
Memphis Brand
Chalkbeat
The Daily Memphian
Girls, Inc.
New Memphis Institute
Neighborhoods & Public Spaces
Overton Park Conservancy
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis
Memphis Medical District Collaborative
Memphis Public Interest Law Center
Memphis Shelby Crime Commission
Voices for a Safer TN