Tennessee · Nonprofit
APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC
APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,815,537 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($5,000,000). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 136
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Appalachia Service Project Inc does
Mission
The appalachia service project is a christian ministry, open to all people, that addresses the housing needs of central appalachia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Home repair and building services in which volunteers from various churches did home repair and building for economically disadvantaged families.
$15,181,256 spent$5,591,223 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $15,181,256.
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 2024 to 2025, from $17M to $34M (+95%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 5% · 2019 2% · 2020 5% · 2021 11% · 2022 10% · 2023 14% · 2024 16% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Melisa Winburn
President & CEO
Board chair
John O Pearce
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 45 funders, grant income rose $685k → $2.9M.
31 of 136 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 136 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
APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
62% 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 APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 20% · 2019 35% · 2020 24% · 2021 23% · 2022 28% · 2023 28% — 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
40% of APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 29 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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
APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 488 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.8M on record.
- Appalachian Regional Commission$11.0M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.2M
- Department of Agriculture$562k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 50 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC: 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 APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC?
- APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,815,537 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($5,000,000). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 136 organizations giving $18,815,537 in grants to APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 136 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing