PRINCIPAL INVESTORS
PRINCIPAL INVESTORS
Principal Investors are leading the movement to revolutionize poverty-fighting by generously covering all of Slingshot’s operating costs, including the costs to conduct impact studies. Their investments enable Slingshot to continually enhance and scale our work to help empower all of us with previously unavailable insights. Due to their support, we are able to guarantee that 100% of the funds you invest in Slingshot’s Accelerate Impact Fund are allocated directly to amplify high-impact programs and services in Memphis.
2024
Families and Individuals
Lisa & Jody Brown
Meg & Scott Crosby
Kay & Scott Dawson
Rose Johnston
Pam & McNeal McDonnell
Harriet & Jake McFadden

Barbie & Gary Meloni
Nancy Hula Mills
Snow & Henry Morgan
Jim Pentecost
Power & Tel Family Giving Fund 

Leslie & Peter Schutt
Claudia & John Sims
Linda & Frank Smith

Bill Townsend
Anonymous Family
Organizations
AutoZone
City of Memphis
Enterprise Mobility
Crews Family Foundation

FedEx 

Fleetwood Foundation

International Paper
Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation
Raymond James
Sylvamo Corporation
Tennessee Valley Authority
2023
Families and Individuals
Lisa & Jody Brown
Tommie & William “Billy” Dunavant, Jr. 

Harriet & Jake McFadden
Barbie & Gary Meloni
Jim Pentecost
Power & Tel Family Giving Fund 

Claudia & John Sims
Linda and Frank Smith

Ruth Tutor Family
Organizations
AutoZone
City of Memphis
Crews Family Foundation 

Cushman & Wakefield | Commercial Advisors
Enterprise Mobility Foundation
FedEx 

Hyde Family Foundation
Power & Tel
Raymond James
Sylvamo Corporation
Thomas W. Briggs Foundation
Anonymous Foundation (2) 

2022
Families and Individuals
Tommie & William “Billy” Dunavant, Jr. 

Power & Tel Family Giving Fund 

Linda & Frank Smith 

Harriet & Jake McFadden
Barbie & Gary Meloni
Snow & Henry Morgan
Jim Pentecost
Cait & Josh Shores
Claudia & John Sims
Ruth Tutor Family
Organizations
FedEx 

Additive Advisory PBC
Crews Family Foundation
Cushman & Wakefield | Commercial Advisors
Power & Tel
Sylvamo Corporation
The Urban Child Institute
2021
Families and Individuals
Tommie & William “Billy” Dunavant, Jr. 

Harriet & Jake McFadden

Linda & Frank Smith

Barbie & Gary Meloni
Jim Pentecost
Cait & Josh Shores
Claudia & John Sims
Ruth Tutor Family
Organizations
Additive Advisory PBC
Crews Family Foundation
Cushman & Wakefield | Commercial Advisors
Power & Tel
Sylvamo Corporation
The Urban Child Institute
2020
Families and Individuals
Tommie & William “Billy” Dunavant, Jr. 

Linda & Frank Smith

Marsha & Bill Thompson 

Jim Pentecost
Cait & Josh Shores
Organizations
Cushman & Wakefield | Commercial Advisors 

Crews Family Foundation
2019
Families and Individuals
Katherine & John Hull Dobbs, Jr. 

Tommie & William “Billy” Dunavant, Jr. 

Linda & Frank Smith

Marsha & Bill Thompson

Sandra & John Paul Jones
Jim Pentecost
Organizations
Crews Family Foundation
Power & Tel
2018
Families and Individuals
Katherine & John Hull Dobbs, Jr. 

Tommie & William “Billy” Dunavant, Jr. 

Linda & Frank Smith

Marsha & Bill Thompson

Jim Pentecost
Organizations
Crews Family Foundation
Power & Tel
2017
Families and Individuals
Katherine & John Hull Dobbs, Jr. 

Tommie & William “Billy” Dunavant, Jr. 

Linda & Frank Smith

Organizations

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