Skip to content
Plinth
← Funding

Tennessee · Nonprofit

HARDING ACADEMY

HARDING ACADEMY (Tennessee) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,731,495 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($1,783,200). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$18M
Revenue FY2025
52
Funders on record
$6.7M
Grants received
$47M
Net assets
33/52 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%

Against its field

HARDING ACADEMY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($12M) Expenses 100 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($24M)2018 Revenue 102 ($12M) Expenses 102 ($11M) Net assets 104 ($25M)2019 Revenue 114 ($13M) Expenses 109 ($12M) Net assets 110 ($27M)2020 Revenue 120 ($14M) Expenses 104 ($11M) Net assets 121 ($29M)2021 Revenue 132 ($16M) Expenses 110 ($12M) Net assets 143 ($35M)2022 Revenue 119 ($14M) Expenses 114 ($13M) Net assets 144 ($35M)2023 Revenue 119 ($14M) Expenses 125 ($14M) Net assets 149 ($36M)2024 Revenue 154 ($18M) Expenses 124 ($14M) Net assets 173 ($42M)2025 Revenue 152 ($18M) Expenses 133 ($15M) Net assets 195 ($47M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (152)Expenses (133)Net assets (195)Peer revenue range

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

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

19% of HARDING ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 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.

$773k
17
$853k
18
$1.5M
19
$2.7M
20
$3.5M
21
$1.5M
22
$250k
23
$4.5M
24
$3.3M
25
2.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $122k → $1.3M.

16 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)71% 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 HARDING ACADEMY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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

HARDING ACADEMY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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 HARDING ACADEMY.

26%
largest funder
63%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 63% · 2019 64% · 2020 42% · 2021 43% · 2022 38% · 2023 40%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

57% of HARDING ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

71% of HARDING ACADEMY'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 $1.9M that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from Tennessee funders.

MN
IL
WI
NY
OH
VA
TN
NC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 52 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like HARDING ACADEMY

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Tennessee

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 28%Fundraising 5%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Harding Academy Property Holdings LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HARDING ACADEMY: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds HARDING ACADEMY?
HARDING ACADEMY (Tennessee) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,731,495 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($1,783,200). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HARDING ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $6,731,495 in grants to HARDING ACADEMY, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HARDING ACADEMY?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,783,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HARDING ACADEMY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 52funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing