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Tennessee · Nonprofit
CARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITY (Tennessee) is funded by 51 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $13,695,309 in grants to it, the largest being TED & DRAMA RUSSELL FAMILY ($9,108,900). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,198 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,198 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
20% of CARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (26% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
$67k from 5 funders in 2025, up from $1.4M and 6 in 2017.
14 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 CARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 funders by total. Association, not causation.
CARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 70% · 2019 86% · 2020 89% · 2021 83% · 2022 46% · 2023 63% · 2024 37% · 2025 81% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
41% of CARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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.
CARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITY is locally rooted: 71% of its grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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. Your 51 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
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.
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.8M on record — $11.8M federal, $2k state.
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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
84% of spending goes to programs.
Every figure is 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 51funders 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. view filing