Memphis 13 Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 873041912
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2022–2025
Forms available: Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location: Memphis, TN, USA
Rating: 60
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Youth Development Programs

Reported finances

Revenue: $19,403
Expenses: $107,534
Assets: $3,219

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

Dwania Kyles (Director)
Dr Archie Moss (Treasurer)
Dr Gina Tillis (Secretary)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Memphis 13 history preservance

What it reported doing in 2025

Teaching the Memphis 13 Curriculum Memphis 13 survivors presenting stories

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 78% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model: Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 39
Transparency & Controls: 100
Sustainability: 5
Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 57.2%; rating input score 57
Program expense ratio: 10.3%; rating input score 10

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

Operating margin: -454.2%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
Officer compensation ratio: 33.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -35.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -36.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 57.2% of revenue deployed · 10.3% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $11K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 10/100.
Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.