Tennessee · Nonprofit
DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTE
DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTE (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,910 to it, the largest being THE HEALING TRUST FORMERLY BAPTIST HEALING HOSPITAL TRUST ($98,697). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $190k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Disability Rights Tennessee Fka Disability Law & Advocacy Cente does
Mission
Disability rights tennessee is a nonprofit legal services organization dedicated to protecting the rights of tennesseans with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Drt is tennessee's protection & advocacy (p&a) system that resulted from federal legislation, the developmental disabilities assistance and bill of rights act of 1975. The act defines the p&a system as one that has the authority to pursue legal, administrative & other appropriate remedies to ensure the protection of rights & advocate on behalf of those persons who have a developmental disability. Drt administers six p&a programs & client assistance program. Each of these programs has primary goals of protecting the civil rights of individuals with disabilities, although the specific disability or issue may be designated by the mandating act, & advocacy efforts to expand the abilities of those with disabilities to live productive, fulfilling lives. - continued on schedule o
$3,749,873 spentof which $604 as grants$1,846,941 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,749,873.
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 $982k to $1.7M (+73%).
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: 2017 89% · 2018 93% · 2019 92% · 2020 85% · 2021 88% · 2022 88% · 2023 90% · 2024 86% · 2025 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Lisa Primm
Exec dir thr
Board chair
Irena Stjepic
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $44k → $8k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTE’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
DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
47% 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 94% · 2019 56% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
88% of DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$15.9M
- Social Security Administration$6.7M
- Department of Education$5.3M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTE
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTE?
- DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTE (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,910 to it, the largest being THE HEALING TRUST FORMERLY BAPTIST HEALING HOSPITAL TRUST ($98,697). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $189,910 in grants to DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTE?
- THE HEALING TRUST FORMERLY BAPTIST HEALING HOSPITAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $98,697 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTE 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 7 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