Tennessee · Nonprofit
JOSH AND FRIENDS INC
JOSH AND FRIENDS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being STUDENT AMERICAN VETERINARY MED ASSOC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $11k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $47k
What Josh and Friends Inc does
Mission
Josh and friends was developed to help alleviate the stress and provide comfort to children going into the hospital. Children are provided with the book "I'll be o.k.- and the "josh" plush puppy to comfort them and transform anxious hospital stays into friendship-filled adventures to wellness.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Josh and friends was developed to help alleviate the stress and provide comfort to children going into the hospital or with a parent deployed in the u.s. Military. Children are provided with the book "I'll be o.k.- and a plush puppy to comfort them and transform anxious hospital stays into friendship-filled adventures to wellness and to comfort during long deployments.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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.
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 $113k to $47k (−58%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5k.
From the IRS filings of JOSH AND FRIENDS INC’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.
Where its funders are
JOSH AND FRIENDS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like JOSH AND FRIENDS INC
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.
Public support
100%
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 JOSH AND FRIENDS 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JOSH AND FRIENDS INC?
- JOSH AND FRIENDS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being STUDENT AMERICAN VETERINARY MED ASSOC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOSH AND FRIENDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to JOSH AND FRIENDS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOSH AND FRIENDS INC?
- STUDENT AMERICAN VETERINARY MED ASSOC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOSH AND FRIENDS 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 1 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