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DICKSON WILLIAMS HISTORIC ASSOC INC

DICKSON WILLIAMS HISTORIC ASSOC INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$93k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$855k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Dickson Williams Historic Assoc Inc does

Mission

The association's mission is to preserve the historic heritage of the dickson-willams mansion including the grounds and related furnishings and collections through authentic restoration, preservation, and conservation.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Expenses consisted of maintaining the mansion as a museum. Expenses include complete maintenance and preservation of the building, presentation of exhibits and educational programs, publication of materials about the mansion, and continuing research and interpretation of the mansion through exhibits and educational programs of its history.

    $60,048 spent$2,733 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. The association's mission is to preserve the historic heritage of the dickson-willams mansion including the grounds and related furnishings and collections through authentic restoration, preservation, and conservation.

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $60,048.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($300k) Expenses 100 ($82k) Net assets 100 ($929k)2022 Revenue 14 ($41k) Expenses 103 ($84k) Net assets 95 ($886k)2023 Revenue 11 ($34k) Expenses 63 ($52k) Net assets 91 ($844k)2024 Revenue 20 ($60k) Expenses 96 ($79k) Net assets 89 ($825k)2025 Revenue 31 ($93k) Expenses 77 ($63k) Net assets 92 ($855k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (31)Expenses (77)Net assets (92)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 2021 to 2022, from $929k to $886k (−5%).

$929k
$886k
$844k
$825k
$855k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 9% · 2022 89% · 2023 59% · 2024 75% · 2025 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of DICKSON WILLIAMS HISTORIC ASSOC INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$218k
’21
−$44k
’22
−$18k
’23
−$19k
’24
$29k
’25
63
months of
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.

Board chair

Beverly Williams

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed151515815
Joined·+0+0+2+10
No longer listed·0093
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
total
funders
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 DICKSON WILLIAMS HISTORIC ASSOC 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.

Where its funders are

100% of DICKSON WILLIAMS HISTORIC ASSOC INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DICKSON WILLIAMS HISTORIC ASSOC INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin32% · top quartile
Months of reserve62.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−25% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

50%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DICKSON WILLIAMS HISTORIC ASSOC 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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Questions and answers

Who funds DICKSON WILLIAMS HISTORIC ASSOC INC?
DICKSON WILLIAMS HISTORIC ASSOC INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DICKSON WILLIAMS HISTORIC ASSOC INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,000 in grants to DICKSON WILLIAMS HISTORIC ASSOC INC.
Who is the largest funder of DICKSON WILLIAMS HISTORIC ASSOC INC?
EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DICKSON WILLIAMS HISTORIC ASSOC 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.

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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 2021–2025), 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