Tennessee · Nonprofit
NAMI CHATTANOOGA
NAMI CHATTANOOGA (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,716 to it, the largest being The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc ($54,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $128k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $104k
- Net assets
- $199k
What Nami Chattanooga does
Mission
Nami Chattanooga is dedicated to improving the lives of individuals living with mental illness, their families, and their communities through mutual support, education, advocacy, and awareness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Awareness raising accomplishments ongoing participation in health fairs community events and similar activities geared towards reducing stigma around and sharing resources for those impacted by mental illness including information on tardive dyskinesia td in 2023 by using actors we also shared select nami members stories at the chattanooga theatre centre individuals reached excluding media broadcast numbers were 4471
$31,137 spentof which $5,000 as grants68% of program spendingSupport and education accomplishments Nami Chattanooga held 34 support groups in english or spanish language with a total of 306 in attendance we held 2 separate family to family education series classes with 8 3-hour sessions in each of those series total participants were 20 we also participated in 3 crisis intervention team cit trainings with a total of 77 participants in attendance
$14,352 spent32% of program spendingUsing trained volunteers we staff a helplineresource line during regular business hours we reached 145 information seekers during 2023
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $45,489.
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.
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 $144k to $200k (+39%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Phyllis Mescon
Executive director hiredpaid by nami tn to work for us -see in kind revenue
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $29k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 NAMI CHATTANOOGA’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
NAMI CHATTANOOGA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 NAMI CHATTANOOGA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 58% — 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.
Where its funders are
95% of NAMI CHATTANOOGA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $99k 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.
Organizations like NAMI CHATTANOOGA
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
98%
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 NAMI CHATTANOOGA: 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 NAMI CHATTANOOGA?
- NAMI CHATTANOOGA (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,716 to it, the largest being The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc ($54,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NAMI CHATTANOOGA have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $103,716 in grants to NAMI CHATTANOOGA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NAMI CHATTANOOGA?
- The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc is the largest funder on record, with $54,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NAMI CHATTANOOGA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing