Tennessee · Nonprofit
JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING INC
JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $802,609 to it, the largest being CHRISTY-HOUSTON FOUNDATION INC ($509,834). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.3M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $803k
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Journeys in Community Living Inc does
Mission
To foster, develop, promote and operate services and programs so as to enrich the lives of the intellectually and developmentally disabled and physically handicapped adults of the rutherford co, tn area. Over 100 adults meeting the conditions above have been assisted this year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Providing residential assistance to approximately 48 adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through operation of one group home and 17 companion homes, including one medical residence.
$6,251,381 spent$6,449,025 earned by the program85% of program spendingProviding vocational and social services to approximately 80 adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through community based activities including assistance with daily living activities.
$708,487 spent$1,494,620 earned by the program10% of program spendingProviding transportation to those clients supported so they can further their independence. Drivers help get clients to work, to the vocational center, to medical appointments and to recreational activities.
$352,304 spent$16,832 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,312,172.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.5M to $4.8M (+39%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 14% · 2022 16% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% 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.
Chief executive
Frances Cook
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $102k → $265k.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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: $291k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of South Central Tennessee). These are real filings, and they are not money JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING INC raised.
From the IRS filings of JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING 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.
How concentrated its funding is
JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 91% · 2019 93% · 2020 62% · 2021 45% · 2022 58% · 2023 73% — 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
56% of JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
97% of JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING 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. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING 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.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING 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 JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING INC?
- JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $802,609 to it, the largest being CHRISTY-HOUSTON FOUNDATION INC ($509,834). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $802,609 in grants to JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING INC?
- CHRISTY-HOUSTON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $509,834 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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