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IRENE CENTER FOR HOPE

IRENE CENTER FOR HOPE (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,144 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($102,144). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$390k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$177k
Net assets
$928k
2/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Irene Center for Hope does

Mission

To provide essential support and relief to individuals and families facing finanicial hardships in our community.our belief is that every person deserves access to basic neccessities and the opportunity to rebuild their lives during difficult times.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

Grants were received from both the united way of greater nashville tennessee and the community foundation of middle tennessee that allowed our organization to provide essential support and relief to individuals and families facing devastating hardships following the december 9th, 2023 ef-3 tornado that affected clarksville tennessee

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 IRENE CENTER FOR HOPE’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

IRENE CENTER FOR HOPE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 IRENE CENTER FOR HOPE.

58%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

100% of IRENE CENTER FOR HOPE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

TN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

03Its place in the field

Against its field

IRENE CENTER FOR HOPE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve2.0mo · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like IRENE CENTER FOR HOPE

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IRENE CENTER FOR HOPE: 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 IRENE CENTER FOR HOPE?
IRENE CENTER FOR HOPE (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,144 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($102,144). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does IRENE CENTER FOR HOPE have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $177,144 in grants to IRENE CENTER FOR HOPE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of IRENE CENTER FOR HOPE?
UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $102,144 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like IRENE CENTER FOR HOPE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 2 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