Tennessee · Nonprofit
DNA Developing Noblemen Academy
DNA Developing Noblemen Academy (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,000 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($9,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $38k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $23k
- Net assets
- $506
What DNA Developing Noblemen Academy does
Mission
Developing Noblemen Academy DNA is a nonprofit organization dedicated primarily to mentoring and empowering minority adolescent and teenage boys in Memphis, Tennessee and surrounding areas. Its exempt purpose is rooted in providing comprehensive developmental support through various programs such as Character Building, Professional Development, Financial Literacy, and Health & Wellness. These initiatives aim to guide young men towards becoming well-rounded individuals who are capable of making positive contributions to their communities and society at large.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Staying Fit Through Sports Initiative introduced golf and soccer to young men, emphasizing physical fitness and teamwork with professional coaching. Beneficiaries: 100-150 young men participated.
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $19k to $5k (−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.
100% of DNA Developing Noblemen Academy’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 DNA Developing Noblemen Academy’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
DNA Developing Noblemen Academy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 DNA Developing Noblemen Academy.
“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
74% of DNA Developing Noblemen Academy'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k 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
DNA Developing Noblemen Academy has grown faster than half of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like DNA Developing Noblemen Academy
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.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DNA Developing Noblemen Academy: 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 DNA Developing Noblemen Academy?
- DNA Developing Noblemen Academy (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,000 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($9,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DNA Developing Noblemen Academy have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $23,000 in grants to DNA Developing Noblemen Academy.
- Who is the largest funder of DNA Developing Noblemen Academy?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $9,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DNA Developing Noblemen Academy 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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