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MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE
MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE (Tennessee) receives grants from 113 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,217,106 to it, the largest being MBA WILSON TRUST JUSTIN P WILLIAM M & BLAIR J WILSON TR ($7,399,503). 91 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.
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.
- Memorial Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- The Rudolph J Torello Foundation Incportfolio match
- Scholarships for Kids Incportfolio match
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.
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.
21% of MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 36 funders to 65 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $3.2M.
23 of 113 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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: $7.6M from 9 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 MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE raised.
From the IRS filings of MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 113 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
MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
35% 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 MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 35% · 2019 31% · 2020 25% · 2021 20% · 2022 25% · 2023 29% — 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 MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% 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
91% of MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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.
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 113 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Memorial Foundation Incshared funderslocalTN · backs 138 organizations that share your funders · funds 251 organizations near you
- The Rudolph J Torello Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scholarships for Kids Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Toshiba America Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Edward E Ford Foundation Xxxxx2009portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Education Freedom Alabamaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Players Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Henkels Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vermont Energy Investment Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bill Belichick Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Project Lead the Way Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dettwiller Foundationshared funderslocalTN · backs 64 organizations that share your funders · funds 89 organizations near you
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 MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF 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 MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE?
- MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE (Tennessee) receives grants from 113 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,217,106 to it, the largest being MBA WILSON TRUST JUSTIN P WILLIAM M & BLAIR J WILSON TR ($7,399,503). 91 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE have?
- IRS filings report 113 organizations giving $26,217,106 in grants to MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE, 91 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE?
- MBA WILSON TRUST JUSTIN P WILLIAM M & BLAIR J WILSON TR is the largest funder on record, with $7,399,503 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF 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 113funders 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