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CFA SOCIETY OF NASHVILLE

CFA SOCIETY OF NASHVILLE (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $358,319 to it, the largest being CFA INSTITUTE ($358,319). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$199k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$358k
Net assets
$141k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 64%
01What it does

What Cfa Society of Nashville does

Mission

To promote professional standards in financial markets and equip members to be leaders in our community by promoting the value of the CFA designation and facilitating the exchange of ideas and resources for the ultimate benefit of Middle Tennessee.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Annual Forecast Dinner is a yearly event featuring speakers who provide their views and perspectives the upcoming year in financial markets. Benefits entire membership base.

  2. Virtual and in-person events featuring speakers discussing various subjects of interest to the society's members, providing networking opportunities and continuing education.

  3. Research Challenge is a yearly event hosting student teams from regional colleges who present investment recommendations to a panel of judges. A winning team is selected to present in a national competition sponsored by the CFA Institute.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The 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 ($60k) Expenses 100 ($62k) Net assets 100 ($135k)2021 Revenue 117 ($70k) Expenses 72 ($45k) Net assets 136 ($184k)2022 Revenue 218 ($131k) Expenses 173 ($108k) Net assets 154 ($208k)2023 Revenue 181 ($109k) Expenses 200 ($124k) Net assets 142 ($192k)2024 Revenue 227 ($137k) Expenses 265 ($165k) Net assets 121 ($164k)2025 Revenue 330 ($199k) Expenses 356 ($222k) Net assets 104 ($141k)
201720212022202320242025
Revenue (330)Expenses (356)Net assets (104)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $192k to $164k (−15%).

$135k
$184k
$208k
$192k
$164k
$141k
201720212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

27% of CFA SOCIETY OF NASHVILLE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’17
$25k
’21
$24k
’22
−$16k
’23
−$29k
’24
−$23k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $38k → $42k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Cfa Instituteunclassified
$358k
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of CFA SOCIETY OF NASHVILLE’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.

Where its funders are

CFA SOCIETY OF NASHVILLE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.

VA

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CFA SOCIETY OF NASHVILLE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CFA SOCIETY OF NASHVILLE: 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 CFA SOCIETY OF NASHVILLE?
CFA SOCIETY OF NASHVILLE (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $358,319 to it, the largest being CFA INSTITUTE ($358,319). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CFA SOCIETY OF NASHVILLE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $358,319 in grants to CFA SOCIETY OF NASHVILLE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CFA SOCIETY OF NASHVILLE?
CFA INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $358,319 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CFA SOCIETY OF NASHVILLE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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