Tennessee · Nonprofit
MY FATHERS HOUSE NASHVILLE
MY FATHERS HOUSE NASHVILLE (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,500 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR OPIOID RESPONSE EFFORTS ($135,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $286k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $168k
- Net assets
- $80k
What My Fathers House Nashville does
Mission
The mission of My Fathers House Nashville (MFHN) is to provide shelter, parenting education, recovery information and life skills for fathers transitioning out of institutional settings or homelessness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To provide shelter, parenting education, recovery information and life skills for fathers transitioning out of institutional settings or homelessness.
$182,425 spent$286,047 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $182,425.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $69k to $80k (+16%).
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.
0% of MY FATHERS HOUSE NASHVILLE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Thomas Gooch
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 MY FATHERS HOUSE NASHVILLE’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
MY FATHERS HOUSE NASHVILLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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.
Where its funders are
MY FATHERS HOUSE NASHVILLE draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states in all.
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
MY FATHERS HOUSE NASHVILLE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MY FATHERS HOUSE 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
93% 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 MY FATHERS HOUSE 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 MY FATHERS HOUSE NASHVILLE?
- MY FATHERS HOUSE NASHVILLE (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,500 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR OPIOID RESPONSE EFFORTS ($135,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MY FATHERS HOUSE NASHVILLE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $167,500 in grants to MY FATHERS HOUSE NASHVILLE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MY FATHERS HOUSE NASHVILLE?
- FOUNDATION FOR OPIOID RESPONSE EFFORTS is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MY FATHERS HOUSE 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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