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KIPP NASHVILLE

KIPP NASHVILLE (Tennessee) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,328,927 to it, the largest being KIPP FOUNDATION ($15,300,498). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$72M
Revenue FY2025
45
Funders on record
$30M
Grants received
$73M
Net assets
32/45 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%

Against its field

KIPP NASHVILLE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve8.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

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 ($17M) Expenses 100 ($16M) Net assets 100 ($8.3M)2018 Revenue 124 ($21M) Expenses 122 ($19M) Net assets 128 ($11M)2019 Revenue 165 ($28M) Expenses 149 ($23M) Net assets 189 ($16M)2020 Revenue 184 ($32M) Expenses 190 ($30M) Net assets 213 ($18M)2021 Revenue 280 ($48M) Expenses 221 ($34M) Net assets 376 ($31M)2022 Revenue 349 ($60M) Expenses 281 ($44M) Net assets 569 ($47M)2023 Revenue 375 ($64M) Expenses 355 ($55M) Net assets 682 ($57M)2024 Revenue 413 ($71M) Expenses 387 ($60M) Net assets 807 ($67M)2025 Revenue 419 ($72M) Expenses 426 ($66M) Net assets 873 ($73M)
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Revenue (419)Expenses (426)Net assets (873)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
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 82% · 2018 85% · 2019 84% · 2020 88% · 2021 84% · 2022 90% · 2023 89% · 2024 84% · 2025 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of KIPP NASHVILLE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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.

$1.6M
17
$2.3M
18
$5.1M
19
$2.0M
20
$14M
21
$16M
22
$9.0M
23
$10M
24
$5.5M
25
8.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $6.1M.

12 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)14% 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 KIPP NASHVILLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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

KIPP NASHVILLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

88% 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 KIPP NASHVILLE.

50%
largest funder
69%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 45% · 2019 44% · 2020 43% · 2021 37% · 2022 56% · 2023 52%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

55% of KIPP NASHVILLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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

KIPP NASHVILLE draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 10 states in all.

NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
TN
TX

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

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Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 45 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 KIPP NASHVILLE

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

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 15%Fundraising 1%

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

  • Kipp Nashville Foundation Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KIPP NASHVILLE: 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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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 KIPP NASHVILLE?
KIPP NASHVILLE (Tennessee) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,328,927 to it, the largest being KIPP FOUNDATION ($15,300,498). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KIPP NASHVILLE have?
IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $30,328,927 in grants to KIPP NASHVILLE, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KIPP NASHVILLE?
KIPP FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,300,498 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KIPP NASHVILLE 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 45funders 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