Tennessee · Nonprofit
GIRLS WRITE NASHVILLE
GIRLS WRITE NASHVILLE (Tennessee) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $209,483 to it, the largest being AEG COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (FKA STAPLES CENTER FOUNDATION) ($33,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $266k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $209k
- Net assets
- $191k
What Girls Write Nashville does
Mission
Girls Write Nashville empowers expression through songwriting, production, mentorship and creative community for teen artists. We are an artist and educator-led 501(c)(3) creative youth development program in nashville, tn allied with community schools to create safe and trauma-informed creative communities and opportunities for cultural participation for youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mnps school-based programs: Girls Write Nashville partners with metro nashville public schools to provide free after-school and in-school music programs at title I schools. Through songwriting, production, and mentorship, youth artists explore identity, build creative skills, and develop positive relationships in trauma0informed, culturally responsive spaces.
$112,990 spent$24,600 earned by the program50% of program spendingAll city mentorship guild: all city pairs nashville youth artists with professional musicians to co-write and record original music. Participants meet monthly for creative collaboration and mentorship, culminating in a professional recordin session and public release. The program fosters artistic growth and career exposure.
$67,794 spent30% of program spendingSound futures: training & curriculum development: sound futures equips teaching artists with skills in music production, culturally responsive instruction, and trauma-informed pedagogy. The initiative also supports the creation of student-centered curriculum tools, aligned with national arts standards, to improve access to tech-based music education.
$33,897 spent15% of program spendingContracted classes and workshops
$5,649 spent$6,575 earned by the program2% of program spendingAnnual benefit concert
$5,650 spent$7,010 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $225,980.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $67k to $148k (+121%).
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: 2023 29% · 2024 44% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of GIRLS WRITE NASHVILLE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Jennifer Starsinic
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $16k → $51k.
7 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 GIRLS WRITE NASHVILLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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
GIRLS WRITE NASHVILLE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
62% 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 GIRLS WRITE NASHVILLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 91% · 2020 58% · 2021 41% · 2022 42% · 2023 39% — 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
14% of GIRLS WRITE NASHVILLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
54% of GIRLS WRITE NASHVILLE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $96k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
GIRLS WRITE NASHVILLE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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
Government funding GIRLS WRITE NASHVILLE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $105k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$105k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GIRLS WRITE NASHVILLE
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 GIRLS WRITE NASHVILLE: 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 GIRLS WRITE NASHVILLE?
- GIRLS WRITE NASHVILLE (Tennessee) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $209,483 to it, the largest being AEG COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (FKA STAPLES CENTER FOUNDATION) ($33,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GIRLS WRITE NASHVILLE have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $209,483 in grants to GIRLS WRITE NASHVILLE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIRLS WRITE NASHVILLE?
- AEG COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (FKA STAPLES CENTER FOUNDATION) is the largest funder on record, with $33,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIRLS WRITE NASHVILLE 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 16 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