Mary Galloway Home

Mary Galloway Home (MGH), EIN 62-0536730, spent 125 years as a direct operator of subsidized housing for aged women in Memphis — founded in 1896 as "The Home for Aged Women," renamed for Colonel Robert Galloway's wife in 1902, and relocated several times before landing on the Trezevant Manor campus in 2007. In August 2021 the board voted to stop operating housing directly and convert into a grant-giving foundation so its endowment could "allow more individuals to enjoy the benefits." That makes MGH a genuinely young grantmaker despite its old founding date — only three fiscal years of actual grant data (2021-2023) exist in IRS filings. Governance is entirely volunteer: officer compensation is $0 in every filed year (2011-2023), and the current board (Cyndi Coury, President; Judy Hall, Vice President and grant-program contact; Janet Williford, Secretary; Toni Parker, Financial Officer; plus 11 additional directors) reviews applications personally rather than through paid program staff. The stated relationship progression is: online application via a grantinterface.com portal, an eligibility screen, a possible phone interview, an occasional site visit, a board vote, and notification roughly six weeks after the deadline, capped by an in-person October awards ceremony. First-time applicants should read the public grantee data carefully: the only grant amount disclosed in the Foundation's 990 filings is $860,000 to Trezevant Episcopal Home in FY2022 ("program support"), and a separate $500,000 award to Trezevant was announced in the Home's transition year, 2021. That concentration reflects MGH's continuing obligation to the legacy resident population now housed at Trezevant Terrace, not necessarily the profile of a typical outside grantee. The Foundation's own website nonetheless describes an open, competitive Mid-South program for any qualifying 501(c)(3), so the best-fit applicant is a small direct-service nonprofit — housing, health, food security, or supportive services — explicitly serving women 55 and older with financial need in the five-county footprint, that is prepared to ask directly what share of recent cycles went to organizations besides Trezevant before investing heavily in a proposal.

Grantmaking-era financials span only FY2021-FY2023 on file. FY2023 (most recent): $795,720 in grants paid, $923,047 in total giving, $7,423,599 in total assets, $655,925 in total revenue, and just $10,900 in contributions received — confirming MGH is funded almost entirely by its own investment portfolio, not by donors. FY2022: $860,000 in grants paid, $986,025 total giving, $7,690,721 total assets; the only disclosed grantee that year is Trezevant Episcopal Home at $860,000 for program support — effectively 100% of that year's paid grants in the available data. FY2021, the transition year: $200,000 in grants paid on the 990, versus a $500,000 Trezevant award reported in the press that same November — the gap is likely a cash-versus-accrual or mid-year-transition timing artifact rather than two separate large grants, and applicants shouldn't treat either figure as a reliable "typical" award size on its own. Grants paid declined roughly 7.5% from FY2022 ($860,000) to FY2023 ($795,720). Longer term, total assets have fallen steadily from $9,668,194 in 2011 to $7,423,599 in 2023 — a 23% decline over 12 years — consistent with a foundation whose payouts (grants plus operating costs pre-2021, grants alone after) regularly exceed net investment income (FY2023: $573,821 in net investment income against $923,047 in total giving). No minimum or maximum grant size is published; based on the one disclosed dollar figure, realistic first-time expectations should sit well below the $860,000 legacy grant, since that award reflects a decades-long resident-care relationship rather than a competitive outside proposal. Geographically, 100% of the disclosed grant dollars stayed in Tennessee (Memphis), even though eligibility formally extends to Fayette and Tipton Counties (TN), Crittenden County (AR), and DeSoto County (MS) — no cross-state grants appear in the available data, so applicants from the Arkansas or Mississippi counties should not assume precedent exists.

MGH sits inside a tight cluster of similarly small private foundations by asset size — all six organizations below hold between roughly $7.0M and $7.2M in reported assets, making balance-sheet size a fair basis for comparison even though the peer set spans five different states and none discloses a comparable focus-area tag in the data available.

What sets MGH apart within this cohort is public-facing infrastructure: it runs a formal online application (grantinterface.com), publishes eligibility geography and exclusions, and holds an annual awards ceremony — none of which is evidenced for the five peer foundations, whose lack of published process typically signals invitation-only or closed, relationship-based giving. For a grantseeker screening similarly-sized funders, MGH is comparatively accessible on paper, but its narrow mandate (women 55+, five Mid-South counties) and its heavily Trezevant-concentrated grant history mean the real competitive field for an outside nonprofit is likely much smaller than the Foundation's open portal suggests.

The defining recent event is structural, not incremental: in August 2021, after roughly 125 years directly operating housing for aged women, MGH's board voted to stop running its own residence and convert into a grant-making foundation. The first major public grant under the new model was a $500,000 award to Trezevant senior living (177 N. Highland, Memphis), announced November 8, 2021, to support assisted-living costs for MGH's legacy resident population — Trezevant CEO Kent Phillips said the support would let the community "continue to provide our residents with the highest level of care." The FY2022 990 shows $860,000 in grants paid, with Trezevant Episcopal Home again the only disclosed grantee ("program support"). The FY2023 990, the most recent on file, shows $795,720 in grants paid against $7,423,599 in total assets. Looking forward, the 2026 grant cycle is live now: the application portal opened June 15, 2026, the deadline is August 14, 2026 — one week from today (2026-08-07) — with decisions expected by the end of September 2026 and an awards ceremony in October 2026. Current leadership, per the Foundation's board page, is Cyndi Coury (President), Judy Hall (Vice President and the grant program's day-to-day contact), Janet Williford (Secretary), and Toni Parker (Financial Officer), supported by an 11-member all-volunteer director roster drawn from business, medicine, and the arts. No news of leadership turnover, new program areas, or grants beyond the Trezevant relationship surfaced in this research pass — the organization maintains a low public profile between its annual award cycles.

Time-sensitive: the 2026 deadline is August 14, 2026 — seven days from today — for a portal that opened June 15, 2026 at grantinterface.com; if that window closes, expect the next cycle to open around mid-June 2027 based on this year's pattern. Reach out to Judy Hall (administrator@marygallowayhome.org) directly and early; she is both the site's listed grant contact and the board's sitting Vice President, and with an all-volunteer, zero-compensation board, direct relationship-building carries real weight in a foundation this size. Her office hours are narrow — Tuesday through Thursday, 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM — so plan calls inside that window. Treat the five-county service area (Shelby, Fayette, and Tipton Counties in Tennessee; Crittenden County, Arkansas; DeSoto County, Mississippi) as a hard eligibility filter, not a soft preference — organizations serving women outside that footprint should not apply. The population definition is narrow and specific: women 55 and older with demonstrated financial need. General senior-services or family-services nonprofits should show explicit, named programming for this population, not just incidental eligibility, and should build in measurable outcomes, since the Foundation states this as an explicit review criterion. Do not request funding for individuals, religious organizations' internally-focused activities, disease-specific national research, fundraising or advertising costs, or political purposes — all are explicitly excluded. No minimum or maximum grant size is published, so anchor the request to your actual program budget rather than the $860,000 figure tied to Trezevant, which reflects a decades-long resident-care relationship, not a typical first-time award. Expect a real review process, not a mail-a-check form: basic eligibility screening, a possible phone interview, an occasional site visit, a board vote, and — if funded — an in-person October awards ceremony that doubles as a stewardship touchpoint. Because Trezevant is the only grantee visible in the public 990 data since the 2021 transition, ask the administrator plainly what share of the 2023-2025 grant pools, if any, went to organizations other than Trezevant before committing significant proposal-writing time. Finally, grantees must submit year-end reports, so include a simple outcomes-tracking plan in the proposal itself to demonstrate readiness to comply.