// DATA & TRANSPARENCY
What 297 Asks Tell Us About the Mid-South
A first look inside the I.C.E. Club request data — and what it reveals about where our community actually struggles.
We recently pulled the request history behind the I.C.E. Club — every “Ask” submitted, reviewed, and funded since members started pooling resources together. Before getting to the visual, a few things are worth noting up front.
The dataset we analyzed shows $121,704 deployed across 297 asks. That number is lower than the $149,396 figure across 309 families listed on our site — because this particular export only captures the max-request filtered records, not the complete history. The full figure on our site remains the authoritative total, tracking every tier of giving back to July 2017.
The median ask sits at $425 against a $500 ceiling. Our members aren’t asking small — they’re asking for exactly what the crisis costs.
// WHAT THE DATA SHOWS
Car and transportation needs dominate — 43% of all asks
That’s nearly half of everything submitted. This is a Memphis-specific story: a city without functional public transit, where a broken car means a lost job, a missed school run, and no way to reach groceries. One mechanical failure cascades into a full-blown crisis — which is exactly the kind of moment the I.C.E. Club exists to interrupt.
The median and average ask are nearly identical
$425 median against a $424 average means the distribution is tight. Members aren’t sandbagging with low requests, and they aren’t gaming the ceiling either. They’re asking for exactly what they need, right at the practical limit of what the group can deploy.
2019 was the peak year — and volume has declined since
Fifty-three asks came in during 2019, and the count has trended down in the years since. It’s worth watching closely. It could reflect membership attrition, declining awareness of the club, or members self-filtering before submitting. It could also simply be a natural plateau after early growth. The 2026 figure looks low, but the year isn’t complete yet.
Memphis accounts for roughly half of all asks
With meaningful reach into the surrounding suburbs — Bartlett, Cordova, Collierville, and Germantown. In practice, the I.C.E. Club functions as a Memphis-rooted mutual aid network with a genuine regional footprint across the Mid-South.
// A NOTE ON THE NUMBERS
This analysis reflects the max-request filtered export only. Our site’s cumulative total — $149,396 deployed to 309 families since July 2017 — remains the authoritative figure and includes every request tier the I.C.E. Club has ever approved.
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