Tennessee · Nonprofit
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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $72M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $30M
- Net assets
- $73M
What Kipp Nashville does
Mission
Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose for college, career, and beyond so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
During the year, the organization operated nine free public charter schools in nashville serving more than 3,400 students in grades k-12 with another school opening in fall 2025. Kipp Nashville is also expanding its arts and athletics departments to provide additional opportunities to create well-rounded students. Over the past two decades, Kipp Nashville has demonstrated that children from historically underserved communities can excel academically. On average, Kipp Nashville students outperform the district and the state in end of year testing and our alumni graduate college at a higher rate than their district peers.
$55,947,001 spent100% of program spendingPost-secondary support:Kipp Nashville continues its mission of preparing students for college and beyond via its kipp forward program. This program provides a variety of support in high school including opportunities for students to explore college early via trips & fairs and to identify career paths and college majors. This program also assists parents/students through the college process, supports alumni on their path through college and has a scholarship program for new graduates and alumni. Statistics of the class of 2025 include: $8 million in scholarships, 33% of students scored above a 21 on the act and over 900 college acceptances.
$112,018 spentof which $27,508 as grants0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $56,059,019.
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 2022 to 2023, from $110M to $168M (+52%).
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 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).
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
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
Randy Dowell
Executive director
Board chair
Jim Flautt
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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.
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
KIPP NASHVILLE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like KIPP NASHVILLE
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
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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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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.
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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 45 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