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CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,450,547 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS ($1,606,967). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$8.7M
Revenue FY2025
33
Funders on record
$4.5M
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
22/33 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%

Against its field

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC has grown faster than half of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.6M) Expenses 100 ($3.4M) Net assets -76 ($-1180984)2018 Revenue 87 ($3.1M) Expenses 100 ($3.4M) Net assets -66 ($-1019403)2019 Revenue 100 ($3.6M) Expenses 108 ($3.7M) Net assets -82 ($-1264705)2020 Revenue 117 ($4.2M) Expenses 110 ($3.7M) Net assets -72 ($-1121994)2021 Revenue 151 ($5.4M) Expenses 140 ($4.8M) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 194 ($7.0M) Expenses 206 ($7.0M) Net assets 48 ($738k)2023 Revenue 205 ($7.4M) Expenses 206 ($7.0M) Net assets 255 ($4.0M)2024 Revenue 184 ($6.6M) Expenses 210 ($7.1M) Net assets 76 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 240 ($8.7M) Expenses 247 ($8.4M) Net assets 94 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (240)Expenses (247)Net assets (94)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 44% · 2018 46% · 2019 39% · 2020 39% · 2021 46% · 2022 41% · 2023 32% · 2024 38% · 2025 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,740 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$206k
17
$281k
18
$78k
19
$457k
20
$672k
21
$4k
22
$399k
23
$512k
24
$267k
25
0.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $156k → $679k.

11 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)45% 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

89% 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC.

36%
largest funder
61%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 64% · 2019 58% · 2020 41% · 2021 19% · 2022 43% · 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

67% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

94% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

IL
NY
NJ
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TN
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 33 funders put you typical 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.

Government funding CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20.9M on record.

Federal$20.9M
grants $20.9Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$14.3M
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$6.1M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$444k

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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 10%Fundraising 4%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

TN

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Catholic Diocese of Memphis · exempt
  • Diocese of Memphis Housing Corporation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE 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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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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC?
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,450,547 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS ($1,606,967). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC have?
IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $4,450,547 in grants to CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC?
COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS is the largest funder on record, with $1,606,967 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE 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 33funders 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