Tennessee · Nonprofit
NASHVILLE BOOK CONNECTION
NASHVILLE BOOK CONNECTION (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,240 to it, the largest being NASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION ($19,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $65k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $47k
- Net assets
- $113k
What Nashville Book Connection does
Mission
Nashville Book Connection (NBC) connects kids with books they love to nurture their reader identities - at home and in the classroom. Trained volunteers roll colorful book carts of new books (curated for diversity, meaning, and relevancy) to classrooms and work one-on-one with K-5 students, bringing reading excitement, discussing student interests and guiding them through options. Students choose 1 book they are excited to read each week for 6 consecutive weeks.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Book Cart Program: Distribution of 3,113 books to 387 students. Additional book distributions to support teacher's classroom libraries. Management of volunteers to engage with students and teachers
$42,395 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $42,395.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $3k → $14k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 BOOK CONNECTION’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
NASHVILLE BOOK CONNECTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 BOOK CONNECTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% — 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
97% of NASHVILLE BOOK CONNECTION's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
NASHVILLE BOOK CONNECTION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like NASHVILLE BOOK CONNECTION
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
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 NASHVILLE BOOK CONNECTION: 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 BOOK CONNECTION?
- NASHVILLE BOOK CONNECTION (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,240 to it, the largest being NASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION ($19,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NASHVILLE BOOK CONNECTION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $47,240 in grants to NASHVILLE BOOK CONNECTION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NASHVILLE BOOK CONNECTION?
- NASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $19,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NASHVILLE BOOK CONNECTION 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 7 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