Tennessee · Nonprofit
BELLA CLOSET
BELLA CLOSET (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $74k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $60k
What Bella Closet does
Mission
Bellas Closet is committed to helping the women of Clarksville look and feel their best no matter their social or financial situations. Headed by local business women, Bella's Closet stresses the importance of uplifting, empowering and assisting women in order to improve their lives. Two community minded ladies started discussing ways to assist women, who may, due to life circumstances, need help updating their wardrobe entering the job market. Even when other organizations held give aways or very low cost choices, we still wanted more for Bella's Closet. The intent was to address the whole woman, not just clothing. We strive to provide goods and services to help women met their life goals. And while the clothing is free, we also provide resume building, workshops for interview skills or finance building (credit repair). Along side those workshops, we bring mentoring professionally and spiritually as well as network training with other women in leadership, to expand their career.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Served over 1200 women and families this year by providing clothing, support, and mentoring.
$34,241 spentof which $29,207 as grants80% of program spendingWomen's Fashion Show
$8,395 spent20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $42,636.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $35k to $60k (+71%).
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.
100% of BELLA CLOSET’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Cynthia Pitts
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 BELLA CLOSET’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
BELLA CLOSET leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
86% 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 BELLA CLOSET.
“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
86% of BELLA CLOSET'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BELLA CLOSET runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,074 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 employment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BELLA CLOSET
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.
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 BELLA CLOSET: 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 BELLA CLOSET?
- BELLA CLOSET (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BELLA CLOSET have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $17,500 in grants to BELLA CLOSET.
- Who is the largest funder of BELLA CLOSET?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BELLA CLOSET 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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