Tennessee · Nonprofit
GOSPEL MUSIC HYMN SING FOUNDATION
GOSPEL MUSIC HYMN SING FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,569 to it, the largest being WATEREE FLOODLANDS MEMORIAL FOREST ($60,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $396k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $84k
- Net assets
- $129k
What Gospel Music Hymn Sing Foundation does
Mission
To educate the public about the importance and value of congregational hymn singing.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
The mission of the Gospel Music Hymn Sing Foundation is to preserve the art form and messages of congregational hymn singing, utilizing live performances, video and audio recordings and printed materials, to encourage the older generations, and to re-energize a younger generation to the greatness of classic hymns.
$439,639 spent$396,177 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $439,639.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $1k to $121k (+11597%).
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.
35% of GOSPEL MUSIC HYMN SING FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $21k → $448.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 GOSPEL MUSIC HYMN SING 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
GOSPEL MUSIC HYMN SING FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
27% 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 GOSPEL MUSIC HYMN SING FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 95% · 2019 100% · 2020 69% · 2021 96% · 2022 95% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
GOSPEL MUSIC HYMN SING FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k 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
GOSPEL MUSIC HYMN SING FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 630 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 630 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like GOSPEL MUSIC HYMN SING 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 GOSPEL MUSIC HYMN SING 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 GOSPEL MUSIC HYMN SING FOUNDATION?
- GOSPEL MUSIC HYMN SING FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,569 to it, the largest being WATEREE FLOODLANDS MEMORIAL FOREST ($60,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GOSPEL MUSIC HYMN SING FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $83,569 in grants to GOSPEL MUSIC HYMN SING FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOSPEL MUSIC HYMN SING FOUNDATION?
- WATEREE FLOODLANDS MEMORIAL FOREST is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOSPEL MUSIC HYMN SING 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2018–2026), and the filings of 4 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