Tennessee · Nonprofit
CHARITY CIRCLE OF MURFREESBORO
CHARITY CIRCLE OF MURFREESBORO (Tennessee) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $356,066 to it, the largest being CHRISTY-HOUSTON FOUNDATION INC ($332,635). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- United Way of South Central Tennesseeshared funderslocal
- Firsthealth of the Carolinas Incportfolio match
- United Way of Central Georgia Incportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $101.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 CHARITY CIRCLE OF MURFREESBORO’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
CHARITY CIRCLE OF MURFREESBORO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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: 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 60% · 2022 61% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
25% of CHARITY CIRCLE OF MURFREESBORO's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 25% 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
98% of CHARITY CIRCLE OF MURFREESBORO's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
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 8 funders put you under-funded among the 86 organizations that share them.
- United Way of South Central Tennesseeshared funderslocalTN · backs 19 organizations that share your funders · funds 40 organizations near you
- Firsthealth of the Carolinas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Central Georgia Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rappahannock United Way Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gwinnett Championship Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- B Stephen Schloss Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oconee Federal Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wellstar Health System Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Central Alabama Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Kitsap Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- George Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like CHARITY CIRCLE OF MURFREESBORO
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
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 CHARITY CIRCLE OF MURFREESBORO: 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.
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 CHARITY CIRCLE OF MURFREESBORO?
- CHARITY CIRCLE OF MURFREESBORO (Tennessee) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $356,066 to it, the largest being CHRISTY-HOUSTON FOUNDATION INC ($332,635). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHARITY CIRCLE OF MURFREESBORO have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $356,066 in grants to CHARITY CIRCLE OF MURFREESBORO, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHARITY CIRCLE OF MURFREESBORO?
- CHRISTY-HOUSTON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $332,635 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHARITY CIRCLE OF MURFREESBORO 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 8funders 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