Tennessee · Nonprofit
FIGHTING DUCHENNE FOUNDATION
FIGHTING DUCHENNE FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,763 to it, the largest being SMILES FOR LIFE FOUNDATION ($49,763). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $27k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $70k
- Net assets
- $326k
What Fighting Duchenne Foundation does
Mission
To raise the awareness of duchenne muscular dystrophy affecting 1 in 3500 male births as an x-linked hereditary disease that causes degeneration and necrosis of the skeletal muscle fibres and to raise funds to establish an endowment at the texas a & m-vanderbilt, nashville, tennessee to fund research for a cure.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
From the entity's inhouse fundraising efforts, a research fund grant of $41,800 was given to cure rare disease - texas a & m research to further research for developing a cure of duchennes disease through gene therapy studies and research.
$41,800 spentof which $41,800 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $41,800.
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 2017 to 2018, from $352k to $434k (+23%).
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.
0% of FIGHTING DUCHENNE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $18k → $15k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 FIGHTING DUCHENNE FOUNDATION’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
FIGHTING DUCHENNE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 FIGHTING DUCHENNE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
FIGHTING DUCHENNE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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
FIGHTING DUCHENNE FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,898 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,898 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like FIGHTING DUCHENNE FOUNDATION
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
95% 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 FIGHTING DUCHENNE FOUNDATION: 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 FIGHTING DUCHENNE FOUNDATION?
- FIGHTING DUCHENNE FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,763 to it, the largest being SMILES FOR LIFE FOUNDATION ($49,763). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIGHTING DUCHENNE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $69,763 in grants to FIGHTING DUCHENNE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIGHTING DUCHENNE FOUNDATION?
- SMILES FOR LIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $49,763 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIGHTING DUCHENNE FOUNDATION 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 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