Tennessee · Nonprofit
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE (Tennessee) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,136,316 to it, the largest being BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS IN TENNESSEE ($4,082,034). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $6.1M
What Boys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee does
Mission
Boys & girls clubs of middle tennessee's ("bgcmt") mission is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens. In essence, we seek to save and change the lives of children and teens by providing a safe, positive, and engaging environment and programs that prepare and inspire them to achieve great futures. For over 119 years, bgcmt has been in the forefront of youth development, working with youth from disadvantaged economic, social, and family circumstances. Bgcmt enriches the lives of girls and boys that other youth agencies fail to reach. Bgcmt served over 4,800 young people through our three vehicles of service: after-school program; summer enrichment services; and digital programming.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
After-school program----the after-school program revolves around three priority outcomes: academic success, healthy lifestyles, and character & leadership. Bgcmt's academic success priority outcome enhances student performance and encourages high school graduation, college attendance, and career exploration. Each club has a designated learning center and is open during club hours. Academic programs focus on early literacy, homework assistance and tutoring, integrated learning strategies, basic computer skills development, and advanced digital arts programming. The healthy lifestyles priority outcome offers fitness and preventive health and wellness programs that promote healthy habits and combat the rising epidemic of childhood obesity. Bgcmt offers team-based programs for all genders and all ages. The character & leadership priority outcome prepares young people for a successful future, empowering members to become citizens who support and influence their peers and community. Youth are taught the value of leadership and volunteer work, and are exposed to community service.
$4,093,527 spent$4,332,645 earned by the program72% of program spendingSummer enrichment services----the focus of our summer enrichment services is to provide a safe and engaging learning environment for the main purpose of reducing summer learning loss. Through its summer brain game, bgcmt keeps education at the forefront through its 8-10 week summer day camp. Youth participate in educational field trips, go on college tours, and partake in community service projects. Over 850 youth participated in our summer enrichment programs.
$1,354,957 spent$1,434,105 earned by the program24% of program spendingDigital programming ---- the focus of digital programming is to provide 21st century learning and content to engage our youth and prepare them for the future workplace. We launched club next offering a range of youth services online, from tutoring to reading support. Our code academy, an innovative camp open to all youth, teaches computer coding concepts and ios app design. And lastly, we offered e-learning centers to give youth a safe place to login and attend their online based schools during the pandemic.
$195,222 spent$206,626 earned by the program3% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$26,558 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,670,264.
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 $4.6M to $7.5M (+62%).
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 20% · 2018 30% · 2019 29% · 2020 21% · 2021 52% · 2022 54% · 2023 26% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Eric Higgs
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $973k → $1.6M.
12 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 37% · 2019 24% · 2020 37% · 2021 58% · 2022 33% · 2023 18% — 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
44% of BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
57% of BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE has grown faster than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE
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
88% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE?
- BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE (Tennessee) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,136,316 to it, the largest being BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS IN TENNESSEE ($4,082,034). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $14,136,316 in grants to BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE?
- BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS IN TENNESSEE is the largest funder on record, with $4,082,034 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 70 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