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NASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC

NASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC (Tennessee) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,324,263 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($317,806). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.1M
Revenue FY2025
41
Funders on record
$1.3M
Grants received
$2.4M
Net assets
20/41 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%

Against its field

NASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC's funding base is broadening — from 13 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−32% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($3.6M)2018 Revenue 99 ($1.7M) Expenses 107 ($2.1M) Net assets 92 ($3.3M)2019 Revenue 114 ($1.9M) Expenses 124 ($2.4M) Net assets 78 ($2.8M)2020 Revenue 94 ($1.6M) Expenses 98 ($1.9M) Net assets 70 ($2.5M)2021 Revenue 99 ($1.7M) Expenses 64 ($1.2M) Net assets 85 ($3.0M)2022 Revenue 163 ($2.8M) Expenses 111 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($3.6M)2023 Revenue 134 ($2.3M) Expenses 141 ($2.7M) Net assets 88 ($3.1M)2024 Revenue 156 ($2.6M) Expenses 147 ($2.8M) Net assets 83 ($2.9M)2025 Revenue 126 ($2.1M) Expenses 145 ($2.8M) Net assets 66 ($2.4M)
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Revenue (126)Expenses (145)Net assets (66)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 15% · 2019 12% · 2020 16% · 2021 50% · 2022 41% · 2023 15% · 2024 12% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

32% of NASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$248k
17
$394k
18
$476k
19
$302k
20
$425k
21
$600k
22
$460k
23
$225k
24
$678k
25
2.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $148k → $264k.

6 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)27% 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 NASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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

NASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

47% 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 NASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC.

24%
largest funder
58%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 42% · 2019 37% · 2020 37% · 2021 39% · 2022 41% · 2023 28%broadly stable.

“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

39% of NASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

57% of NASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

WI
NY
WY
CA
MO
TN
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $363k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

03Its place in the field

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 41 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Government funding NASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.

Federal$40k
grants $40kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$40k

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 NASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 16%Fundraising 10%

Governance

32
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC: 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 NASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC?
NASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC (Tennessee) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,324,263 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($317,806). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC have?
IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $1,324,263 in grants to NASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $317,806 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC 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 41funders 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