Tennessee · Nonprofit
HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC
HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,325,465 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC ($4,000,139). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 877 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 877 health nonprofits over $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.
- Weldon F Osborne Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- National Council for Behavioral Healthportfolio match
- Tower Mental Health Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 45% · 2018 49% · 2019 49% · 2020 46% · 2021 48% · 2022 53% · 2023 56% · 2024 58% · 2025 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 18 funders, grant income fell $1.4M → $974k.
9 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $9.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Helen Ross McNabb Mental Health Foundationinc). These are real filings, and they are not money HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 64% · 2019 34% · 2020 18% · 2021 26% · 2022 32% · 2023 53% — 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
52% of HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
88% of HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $279k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
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 47 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Weldon F Osborne Foundation Incshared funderslocalTN · backs 63 organizations that share your funders · funds 87 organizations near you
- National Council for Behavioral Healthportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tower Mental Health Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The West End Home Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- QSourceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tennessee Rural Health Recruitment & Retention Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Saint Thomas Regional Hospitalsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lillian L Colby Charitable Fdn Iashared funderslocalTN · backs 31 organizations that share your funders · funds 36 organizations near you
- Footprint Foundation Incshared funderslocalTN · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 51 organizations near you
- Benwood Foundation Incshared funderslocalTN · backs 71 organizations that share your funders · funds 108 organizations near you
- Gene & Florence Monday Foundation Incshared funderslocalTN · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 41 organizations near you
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.
Government funding HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $36.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$27.3M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.4M
- Department of Justice$3.9M
- Appalachian Regional Commission$515k
- Department of Labor$500k
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 HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Helen R McNabb Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC: 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.
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 HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC?
- HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,325,465 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC ($4,000,139). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $11,325,465 in grants to HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC is the largest funder on record, with $4,000,139 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC 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 47funders 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