Tennessee · Nonprofit
DEER RUN RETREAT CENTER
DEER RUN RETREAT CENTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,234,861 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,217,580). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Deer Run Retreat Center does
Mission
Our mission is to provide excellent camps and retreats which inspire a transformational relationship with jesus christ and strengthens relationships with family and friends. We exist to help kids and families grow through deeper faith, stronger relationships,and greater adventure
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Deer run camp provides both day and overnight camps. The camps for k-12th grade kids are focused on deeper faith, stronger relationships, & greater adventures. This opportunity is avaliable to all families regardless of their socio-economic circumstances through our camper scholarship fund. In the last 14 years this program has grown from 48 campers to over 3,000 campers. Family camps and retreats are activities specifically designed to strengthen families. Outdoor education activities are designed to help students grow in their understanding, appreciation, and respect of the world we live in and how to be good stewards of our natural resources.
$2,885,532 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,885,532.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $9.1M to $11M (+17%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 20% · 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of DEER RUN RETREAT CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income fell $2.1M → $159k.
10 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 DEER RUN RETREAT CENTER’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
DEER RUN RETREAT CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 DEER RUN RETREAT CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 51% · 2019 94% · 2020 75% · 2021 70% · 2022 58% · 2023 80% — 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
38% of DEER RUN RETREAT CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
96% of DEER RUN RETREAT CENTER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $115k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Against its field
DEER RUN RETREAT CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DEER RUN RETREAT CENTER
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DEER RUN RETREAT CENTER?
- DEER RUN RETREAT CENTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,234,861 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,217,580). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DEER RUN RETREAT CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $3,234,861 in grants to DEER RUN RETREAT CENTER, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEER RUN RETREAT CENTER?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,217,580 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEER RUN RETREAT CENTER 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 14 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