Tennessee · Nonprofit
MONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER
MONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,133,684 to it, the largest being CAROLYN SMITH FOUNDATION ($507,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.9M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Monthaven Arts & Cultural Center does
Mission
The MACCs mission is to collect, preserve and interpret local and regional art, and present exhibits of regional, national and international importance. History, arts, education, and community are our focus.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
ARTS EDUCATION The MACC held numerous art exhibitions, youth art classes, adult art classes, and after-school programs throughout the year. In adition, the museum art gallery was open to the public daily to view the many pieces of art in its collection. SEE SCHEDULE O for more details.
$7,629,368 spent$171,978 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,629,368.
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 2023 to 2024, from $690k to $2.6M (+279%).
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: 2019 50% · 2020 18% · 2021 25% · 2022 10% · 2023 11% · 2024 4% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of MONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
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
Cheryl Strichik
CEO/ Executive Director
Board chair
Barry Ellis
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $107k → $279k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 MONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER’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
MONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 MONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 93% · 2019 51% · 2020 84% · 2021 63% · 2022 43% · 2023 72% — 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
50% of MONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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 MONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: 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 MONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER?
- MONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,133,684 to it, the largest being CAROLYN SMITH FOUNDATION ($507,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,133,684 in grants to MONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER?
- CAROLYN SMITH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $507,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER 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 14 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