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ASPIRE CLARKSVILLE CO CLARKSVILLE-MONT CO ECON DEV COUNCIL
ASPIRE CLARKSVILLE CO CLARKSVILLE-MONT CO ECON DEV COUNCIL (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,000 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($120,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
ASPIRE CLARKSVILLE CO CLARKSVILLE-MONT CO ECON DEV COUNCIL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,812 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,812 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Jeanette Travis Foundationshared funders
- Benwood Foundation Incportfolio match
- Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
99% of ASPIRE CLARKSVILLE CO CLARKSVILLE-MONT CO ECON DEV COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $5k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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: $1.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Clarksville-Montgomery County Community Health Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ASPIRE CLARKSVILLE CO CLARKSVILLE-MONT CO ECON DEV COUNCIL raised.
From the IRS filings of ASPIRE CLARKSVILLE CO CLARKSVILLE-MONT CO ECON DEV COUNCIL’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
ASPIRE CLARKSVILLE CO CLARKSVILLE-MONT CO ECON DEV COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 ASPIRE CLARKSVILLE CO CLARKSVILLE-MONT CO ECON DEV COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
80% of ASPIRE CLARKSVILLE CO CLARKSVILLE-MONT CO ECON DEV COUNCIL'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 $30k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Jeanette Travis Foundationshared fundersTN · backs 4 organizations that share your funders
- Benwood Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lyndhurst Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Footprint Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hamico Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Howard Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bob & Susan Card Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tennessee Technology Development Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food City Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Della Selsor Tr Uwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charity Circle of Murfreesboroshared fundersTN · backs 5 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ASPIRE CLARKSVILLE CO CLARKSVILLE-MONT CO ECON DEV COUNCIL
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Clks-Mont Co Econ Development Council · exempt
- Clarksville Area Chamber of Commerce · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASPIRE CLARKSVILLE CO CLARKSVILLE-MONT CO ECON DEV COUNCIL: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ASPIRE CLARKSVILLE CO CLARKSVILLE-MONT CO ECON DEV COUNCIL?
- ASPIRE CLARKSVILLE CO CLARKSVILLE-MONT CO ECON DEV COUNCIL (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,000 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($120,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ASPIRE CLARKSVILLE CO CLARKSVILLE-MONT CO ECON DEV COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $150,000 in grants to ASPIRE CLARKSVILLE CO CLARKSVILLE-MONT CO ECON DEV COUNCIL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASPIRE CLARKSVILLE CO CLARKSVILLE-MONT CO ECON DEV COUNCIL?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASPIRE CLARKSVILLE CO CLARKSVILLE-MONT CO ECON DEV COUNCIL 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 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing