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DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE

DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE (Tennessee) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $863,130 to it, the largest being THE HERMOINE & GLEN NELSON FOUNDATION ($285,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$454k
Revenue FY2024
24
Funders on record
$863k
Grants received
$320k
Net assets
9/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%

Against its field

DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−19% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,726 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($436k) Expenses 100 ($453k) Net assets 100 ($347k)2018 Revenue 85 ($370k) Expenses 80 ($364k) Net assets 104 ($360k)2019 Revenue 106 ($462k) Expenses 103 ($469k) Net assets 102 ($355k)2020 Revenue 114 ($498k) Expenses 107 ($486k) Net assets 107 ($369k)2021 Revenue 125 ($545k) Expenses 91 ($411k) Net assets 146 ($505k)2022 Revenue 97 ($421k) Expenses 121 ($547k) Net assets 108 ($376k)2023 Revenue 121 ($527k) Expenses 115 ($522k) Net assets 113 ($393k)2024 Revenue 104 ($454k) Expenses 119 ($539k) Net assets 92 ($320k)
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Revenue (104)Expenses (119)Net assets (92)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 4% · 2020 16% · 2021 4% · 2022 4% · 2023 0% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

114% of DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,844 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
17
$6k
18
$7k
19
$12k
20
$134k
21
$126k
22
$5k
23
$85k
24
3.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $71k → $134k.

9 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)35% 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 DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 funders by total. 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

DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

50% 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 DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

33%
largest funder
59%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 38% · 2019 62% · 2020 40% · 2021 35% · 2022 30% · 2023 34%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

46% of DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

94% of DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

IL
WI
NY
PA
NJ
CO
TN
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $301k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

03Its place in the field

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 24 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Organizations like DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

91%

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 DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: 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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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 DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE?
DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE (Tennessee) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $863,130 to it, the largest being THE HERMOINE & GLEN NELSON FOUNDATION ($285,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $863,130 in grants to DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE?
THE HERMOINE & GLEN NELSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $285,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE 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 24funders 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