Tennessee · Nonprofit
LEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION
LEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $422,844 to it, the largest being Vanderbilt University ($76,100). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $919k
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $423k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Leadership Nashville Foundation does
Mission
Leadership nashville identifies and invites a diverse cross-section of professional, civic and charitable leaders to participate in an intensive program designed to give them a multi-dimensional understanding of the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Leadership Nashville Foundation identifies and invites a diverse cross-section of professional, civic and charitable leaders to participate in a one year, intensive program designed to give them a multi-dimensional understanding of the community. The program is intended to educate approximately 46 participants each year to widely differing points of view on issues facing this community and to build trust and respect between the participants from all walks of life. It is an independent, executive level program founded in 1976. The class of 2024/2025 consisted of 46 participants who met over nine program sessions (seven day long sessions bookended by overnight retreats).
$506,186 spent$45,750 earned by the program75% of program spendingQuarterly, the foundation provides programs and events for alumni of leadership nashville. These sessions are intended to continue the debate and discussion among the graduates of the program on current community issues and to provide opportunities for these leaders to continue building trust and respect between alumni. There are more than 1,600 alumni; approximately 85% live and work in the middle tennessee area.
$168,939 spent$57,721 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $675,125.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $1.3M (+22%).
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 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
Evette White
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $7k → $107k.
7 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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: $710k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of LEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION’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
LEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
72% 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 LEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 72% · 2019 64% · 2020 51% · 2021 56% · 2022 36% · 2023 24% — 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
62% of LEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
84% of LEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $192k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like LEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 LEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION: 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 LEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION?
- LEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $422,844 to it, the largest being Vanderbilt University ($76,100). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $422,844 in grants to LEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION?
- Vanderbilt University is the largest funder on record, with $76,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION 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 30 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