Tennessee · Nonprofit
GILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE
GILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE (Tennessee) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,440,050 to it, the largest being Nashville Wine Auction ($712,500). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Gilda's Club Middle Tennessee does
Mission
Our mission is to ensure all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community. Free of charge to participants, Gilda's Club Middle Tennessee provides a place where everyone impacted by cancer - people of all ages, all genders, with all types of cancer, at all stages, including grief and bereavment - along with their families, caregivers, and friends, can find social and emotional support offered by licensed professionals. Our evidence based cancer support program is an essential complement to medical care, and provides support groups, resources, nutritional counseling and cooking classes, movment and stress reduction classes, expressive arts, and social activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Support groups: weekly ongoing groups facilitated by licensed clinicians to provide emotional and social support for people of all ages with cancer, their family and friends. Networking groups: monthly or bi-monthly groups that are diagnosis specific or issue specific, facilitated by licensed clinicians for people of all ages with cancer, their families and friends. Lectures, workshops, and classes: educational opportunities providing self-skill tools for people living with cancer, their friends, and families, facilitated by medical professionals, oncology specialists, and trained volunteers. Social activities: provide opportunities for people with cancer and their families and friends to build community, gain support, make deep and enduring relationships in a safe and understanding community. Donated services and facilities for program workshops consisted of the following: healthcare providers 3,520 movement & fitness 9,840 cooking & nutrition 1,320 art instruction 7,080 individual/group counseling 23,950 these donated services and facilities total 45,710 for the year ended june 30, 2025. During the year ending june 30, 2025, there were: 7,904 individuals served 1,192 workshops,…
$978,176 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $978,176.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.3M to $6.4M (+47%).
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: 2021 23% · 2022 11% · 2023 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of GILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Drew Mallory
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 17 funders, grant income fell $140k → $123k.
11 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 GILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
GILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
72% 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 GILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 36% · 2019 33% · 2020 31% · 2021 32% · 2022 29% · 2023 33% — growing more concentrated.
“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 GILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
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
96% of GILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $557k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
GILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE?
- GILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE (Tennessee) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,440,050 to it, the largest being Nashville Wine Auction ($712,500). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $2,440,050 in grants to GILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE?
- Nashville Wine Auction is the largest funder on record, with $712,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GILDA'S CLUB 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.
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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 38 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing