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FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE'S BABIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE'S BABIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS (Tennessee) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $445,821 to it, the largest being VARIETY OF EASTERN TENNESSEE ($120,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$313k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$446k
Net assets
$1.1M
13/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Friends of Tennessee's Babies With Special Needs does

Mission

Provide support to families of infants with disabilities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Family & community education - public awarenesscampaigns, parent lending libraries, family learningactivities, and training for early intervention teachers

    $36,255 spent
    21% of program spending
  2. Family support services - adaptive equipment & toys,bereavement support, parent support, family emergencies,scholarships, loaner hearing aids and respite care

    $59,502 spent
    34% of program spending
  3. Professional staff support - parent advisor awards, staffsupport for attending professional conferences andprofessional development workshop production

    $39,591 spent
    22% of program spending
  4. Family support services - adaptive equipment & toys, bereavement support, parent support, family emergencies, scholarships, loaner hearing aids and respite care.

    $41,490 spent
    23% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $176,837. The per-program figures do not add up to the total the return states; both are shown as filed.

02The 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 ($234k) Expenses 100 ($177k) Net assets 100 ($549k)2018 Revenue 108 ($253k) Expenses 122 ($216k) Net assets 107 ($587k)2019 Revenue 101 ($235k) Expenses 116 ($206k) Net assets 112 ($616k)2020 Revenue 95 ($221k) Expenses 97 ($173k) Net assets 121 ($665k)2021 Revenue 126 ($293k) Expenses 96 ($171k) Net assets 143 ($787k)2022 Revenue 142 ($332k) Expenses 141 ($251k) Net assets 158 ($868k)2023 Revenue 156 ($365k) Expenses 159 ($282k) Net assets 177 ($970k)2024 Revenue 141 ($328k) Expenses 132 ($235k) Net assets 194 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 134 ($313k) Expenses 139 ($248k) Net assets 205 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (134)Expenses (139)Net assets (205)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $667k to $789k (+18%).

$552k
$588k
$616k
$667k
$789k
$869k
$972k
$1.1M
$1.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

147% of FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE'S BABIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$56k
’17
$37k
’18
$30k
’19
$49k
’20
$122k
’21
$81k
’22
$83k
’23
$93k
’24
$65k
’25
42
months of
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.

Board chair

Melissa Goin

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed161616161618171816
Joined·+0+5+3+0+3+0+1+1
No longer listed·05301103
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $30k → $68k.

5 of 19 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 FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE'S BABIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS’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

FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE'S BABIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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

71% 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 FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE'S BABIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS.

27%
largest funder
56%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 63% · 2019 55% · 2020 25% · 2021 37% · 2022 36% · 2023 22% — 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

55% of FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE'S BABIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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

93% of FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE'S BABIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

NY
OH
TN
NC
AL

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. $108k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE'S BABIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · above the median
Months of reserve42.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 25%Fundraising 4%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE'S BABIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS?
FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE'S BABIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS (Tennessee) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $445,821 to it, the largest being VARIETY OF EASTERN TENNESSEE ($120,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE'S BABIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $445,821 in grants to FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE'S BABIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE'S BABIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS?
VARIETY OF EASTERN TENNESSEE is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE'S BABIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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