Tennessee · Nonprofit
Merited Favor Safe House
Merited Favor Safe House (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being THE HEALING TRUST FORMERLY BAPTIST HEALING HOSPITAL TRUST ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $75k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $14k
What Merited Favor Safe House does
Mission
Womens and Mens Shelter
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Womens society Re-entry program-Substance Abuse10 women-Bed and Shelter Initial food and clothingUtilities, Therapy, Clothing
$11,100 spentof which $500 as grants29% of program spendingMens Society Re-Entry Program-Prison15 Men-Rent, Clothing, Food Utilities
$27,522 spentof which $5,000 as grants71% of program spendingN/a
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $38,622.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 at each year end, in dollars.
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.
72% of Merited Favor Safe House’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (52% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Cynthia Marlow Foster
Administration/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Merited Favor Safe House’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
100% of Merited Favor Safe House's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
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.
Against its field
Merited Favor Safe House runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,318 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,318 housing & shelter nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Merited Favor Safe House
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Merited Favor Safe House: 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 Merited Favor Safe House?
- Merited Favor Safe House (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being THE HEALING TRUST FORMERLY BAPTIST HEALING HOSPITAL TRUST ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Merited Favor Safe House have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to Merited Favor Safe House, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Merited Favor Safe House?
- THE HEALING TRUST FORMERLY BAPTIST HEALING HOSPITAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Merited Favor Safe House 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 2020–2025), 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