Tennessee · Nonprofit
ACM LIFTING LIVES
ACM LIFTING LIVES (Tennessee) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $849,879 to it, the largest being ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ($300,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $850k
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What Acm Lifting Lives does
Mission
Acm Lifting Lives music dedicated to improving lives through the power of music. Acm Lifting Lives funds music health programs while also serving members of the music community who face unexpected hardships through its diane holcomb emergency relief fund. Acm Lifting Lives has funded national music therapy programs serving various mental and physical health organizations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Acm Lifting Lives is dedicated to improving lives through the power of music. Through partnerships with artists and strong ties in the music industry, Acm Lifting Lives funds music health programs while also serving memebers of the music community who face unexpected hardships through its diane holcomb emergency relief fund. With generous donations and the support of artists and fans, Acm Lifting Lives has funded national music therapy programs serving various mental and physical health organizations. Some of the recipients have included patients at children's hospitals and other healthcare facilities, recovering veterans, people with williams syndrome and individuals with mental illness. The Acm Lifting Lives covid- 19 response fund was created in april 2020 in response to the global pandemic.
$896,798 spentof which $631,103 as grants87% of program spendingAcm Lifting Lives is dedicated to improving lives through the power of music. Through partnerships with artists and strong ties in the music industry, Acm Lifting Lives funds music health programs while also serving memebers of the music community who face unexpected hardships through its diane holcomb emergency relief fund. With generous donations and the support of artists and fans, Acm Lifting Lives has funded national music therapy programs serving various mental and physical health organizations. Some of the recipients have included patients at children's hospitals and other healthcare facilities, recovering veterans, people with williams syndrome and individuals with mental illness. The Acm Lifting Lives covid- 19 response fund was created in april 2020 in response to the global pandemic.
$132,844 spent13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,029,642.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $6.9M to $5.4M (−22%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
27% of ACM LIFTING LIVES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income fell $300k → $29k.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Academy of Country Music). These are real filings, and they are not money ACM LIFTING LIVES raised.
From the IRS filings of ACM LIFTING LIVES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACM LIFTING LIVES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACM LIFTING LIVES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 47% · 2020 55% · 2021 95% · 2022 49% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
9% of ACM LIFTING LIVES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 26% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
79% of ACM LIFTING LIVES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $176k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $673k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACM LIFTING LIVES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ACM LIFTING LIVES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACM LIFTING LIVES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACM LIFTING LIVES?
- ACM LIFTING LIVES (Tennessee) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $849,879 to it, the largest being ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ($300,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ACM LIFTING LIVES have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $849,879 in grants to ACM LIFTING LIVES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACM LIFTING LIVES?
- ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACM LIFTING LIVES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing