Tennessee · Nonprofit
ELMAHABA CENTER
ELMAHABA CENTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $453,135 to it, the largest being THE HEALING TRUST FORMERLY BAPTIST HEALING HOSPITAL TRUST ($95,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $191k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $453k
- Net assets
- $144k
What Elmahaba Center does
Mission
To strengthen our communities, prioritizing the Arabic-speaking communities, through collective care, cultural awareness, and knowledge towards liberation and social justice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Elmahaba Centers youth programming supported students through ACT preparation, high school tutoring, college preparation, and arts-based learning opportunities designed to strengthen academic readiness and build confidence. These programs provided culturally responsive, small-group educational support that helped youth prepare for exams, complete coursework, and take meaningful steps toward higher education.
$23,108 spent14% of program spendingThrough its community programming, Elmahaba Center delivered practical support and civic resources to Arabic-speaking immigrants and local families through mutual aid, town hall-style information sharing, language access efforts, and its diaper bank. These services helped meet immediate household needs while also connecting community members to trusted information, community partners, and greater civic participation.
$103,699 spent64% of program spendingElmahaba Centers cultural programming strengthened community identity and connection through art events, oral history preservation, and community-centered gatherings. By creating spaces to document local histories, celebrate culture, and encourage dialogue, the organization helped preserve community memory and foster deeper solidarity across Nashville communities.
$34,541 spent21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $161,348.
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.
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 $40k to $119k (+195%).
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: 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ELMAHABA CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $93k → $96k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 ELMAHABA CENTER’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
ELMAHABA CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
43% 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 ELMAHABA CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 38% · 2022 19% · 2023 26% — 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.
Where its funders are
72% of ELMAHABA CENTER's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $109k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
ELMAHABA CENTER has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ELMAHABA CENTER
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
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELMAHABA CENTER: 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 ELMAHABA CENTER?
- ELMAHABA CENTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $453,135 to it, the largest being THE HEALING TRUST FORMERLY BAPTIST HEALING HOSPITAL TRUST ($95,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELMAHABA CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $453,135 in grants to ELMAHABA CENTER, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELMAHABA CENTER?
- THE HEALING TRUST FORMERLY BAPTIST HEALING HOSPITAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $95,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELMAHABA CENTER 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 14 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