Tennessee · Nonprofit
CUSTOMS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
CUSTOMS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,752,411 to it, the largest being CLARKSVILLE-MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUSEUM ($1,552,411). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CUSTOMS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Seniortrust of Florida Inc Attn Scott Mertie Trusteeshared funders
- Ahepa Affordable Housing Management Company Incportfolio match
- Prime Coalition 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $50k → $1.6M.
From the IRS filings of CUSTOMS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC’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
CUSTOMS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 CUSTOMS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 97% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CUSTOMS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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.
- Seniortrust of Florida Inc Attn Scott Mertie Trusteeshared fundersTN · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- Ahepa Affordable Housing Management Company Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gabriel & Claudia Navarro Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Verdence Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- La Esperanza de Nuestra Comunidadportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Meyer Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Narrow Gate Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Donald E Nielsen Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alta Good Deeds Foundationportfolio 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 CUSTOMS HOUSE FOUNDATION 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CUSTOMS HOUSE FOUNDATION 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.
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 CUSTOMS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC?
- CUSTOMS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,752,411 to it, the largest being CLARKSVILLE-MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUSEUM ($1,552,411). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CUSTOMS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,752,411 in grants to CUSTOMS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CUSTOMS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC?
- CLARKSVILLE-MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUSEUM is the largest funder on record, with $1,552,411 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CUSTOMS HOUSE FOUNDATION 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 2funders 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