Tennessee · Nonprofit
ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE HEARTLAND I
ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE HEARTLAND I (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $600,421 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($347,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $600k
- Net assets
- $543k
What Adult & Teen Challenge Heartland I does
Mission
To provide a residential self-help program to troubled men through education and counseling
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Heartland adult and teen challenge is a long-term, faith-based drug and alcohol treatment program for adult males, ages 18 and up. We are a highly structured program for men who have reached their rock bottom and are ready for a complete and total life change. We offer an opportunity at a new way of life through the freedom only the gospel of jesus christ can provide. Our program focuses on christian principles while helping men develop life skills that will aid them in the practical side of their recovery. They will develop relational skills focusing on family relationships and healthy friendships. Work skills will also be developed while in our program. Not only to help the men gain and maintain sobriety but give them the practical skills necessary to be productive members of society.
$729,879 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $729,879.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.5M to $1.3M (−10%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 11% · 2019 8% · 2022 6% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE HEARTLAND I’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Jonathan Lindberg
CEO
Board chair
Mike Adair
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $12k → $102k.
7 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE HEARTLAND I’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 funders by total. 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
ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE HEARTLAND I leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE HEARTLAND I.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 61% · 2021 70% · 2022 55% · 2023 73% — 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
50% of ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE HEARTLAND I's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
92% of ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE HEARTLAND I'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 $49k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $551k 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
ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE HEARTLAND I runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE HEARTLAND I
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE HEARTLAND I: 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 ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE HEARTLAND I?
- ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE HEARTLAND I (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $600,421 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($347,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE HEARTLAND I have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $600,421 in grants to ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE HEARTLAND I, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE HEARTLAND I?
- RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $347,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE HEARTLAND I 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 10 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