Tennessee · Nonprofit
MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE
MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE (Tennessee) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,249,856 to it, the largest being MBA WILSON TRUST JUSTIN P WILLIAM M & BLAIR J WILSON TR ($7,399,503). 92 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $46M
- Funders on record
- 115
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $312M
What Montgomery Bell Academy of the University of Nashville does
Mission
Montgomery bell academy offers young men an exemplary college preparatory experience, assisting them to be "gentlemen, scholars, and athletes and young men of wisdom and moral integrity who will make significant contributions to society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Operation of a school for boys, grades 7-12. The school has an enrollment of over 700 students. The education curriculum includes math, english, history, science, foreign languages, and fine arts.
$35,268,975 spentof which $4,134,995 as grants$32,451,167 earned by the program94% of program spendingAthletics program- grades 7-12 students participate in intermural and interscholastic sports including baseball, basketball, football, soccer, golf, track, swimming, and wrestling.
$2,225,910 spent$1,487,801 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $37,494,885.
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 2017 to 2018, from $172M to $263M (+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.
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
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.
Board chair
William F Carpenter Iii
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 36 funders to 65 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $3.2M.
24 of 115 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 115 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; 80% 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 17 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
MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF 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 MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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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 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,249,856 to it, the largest being MBA WILSON TRUST JUSTIN P WILLIAM M & BLAIR J WILSON TR ($7,399,503). 92 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 115 organizations giving $26,249,856 in grants to MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE, 92 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.
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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 115 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