Tennessee · Nonprofit
DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTER TN
DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTER TN (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.
Against its field
DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTER TN's revenue grew 64% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,253 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- The West End Home Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Tennessee Bar Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Memorial Foundation Incshared funderslocal
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.
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%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTER TN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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 CENTER TN’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 CENTER TN 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 CENTER TN.
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 CENTER TN'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 statesis 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 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The West End Home Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchTN · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Tennessee Bar Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchTN · backs 12 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Memorial Foundation Incshared funderslocalTN · backs 134 organizations that share your funders · funds 251 organizations near you
- National Health Law Program Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Skadden Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gallogly Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Education Association of the United Statesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The District of Columbia Bar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Barbara McDowell and Gerald S Hartman Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Care Foundation of America Inc Two Brentwood Commonsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Bar Endowmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joe C Davis Foundationshared funderslocalTN · backs 82 organizations that share your funders · funds 139 organizations near you
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.
Government funding DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTER TN 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 CENTER TN
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
89% 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTER TN: 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTER TN?
- DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTER TN (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 CENTER TN have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $189,910 in grants to DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTER TN, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTER TN?
- 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 CENTER TN 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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