Tennessee · Nonprofit
NASHVILLE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP
NASHVILLE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $195,475 to it, the largest being Vanderbilt University ($127,975). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $195k
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Nashville Downtown Partnership does
Mission
To make downtown nashville the compelling urban center of the southeast in which to live, work, play and invest.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provide downtown ambassadors who patrol the sidewalks and public space to aid in the safety, cleanliness and hospitality of the area 365 days a year. The safety ambassadors made 161,870 hospitality contacts, addressed 9,515 pan handling incidents, and made 48,336 business contacts in 2024. In 2024, the clean team removed 1,563,706 pounds of trash and 20,536 square feet of graffiti, and power washed 1,624,928 linear feet of block faces and 902,190 linear feet of alley.
To improve the accessibility and image of the downtown area, the ndp manages two city-owned downtown parking facilities for the metro govt. Of nashville. This provides an improved parking experience for visitors and patrons, and addresses one of the perceived obstacles to living, working and visiting downtown. Also, ndp operates remote parking and shuttle operations from nissan stadium for downtown employees during the workweek. Ndp operates and runs park it downtown website.
Serves as the centralized source of information sharing regarding downtown activities through volunteer committees, networking events, three websites, social media applications, and 52 weekly e-newsletters. Total facebook followers as of december 2024 are 111,998. Total followers on the twitter accounts are 175,726, total instagram followers are 75,392 and total linkedin followers are 1,407. As of december 2024, the weekly newsletter had a total of 28,483 subscribers.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2021 to 2022, from $5.6M to $7.9M (+41%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of NASHVILLE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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 D Turner
President & CEO
Board chair
Johnny Moore
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $31k → $23k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $35M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Nashville District Management Corp Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NASHVILLE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP raised.
From the IRS filings of NASHVILLE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP’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 DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 35% · 2019 39% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
69% of NASHVILLE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
NASHVILLE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP has grown faster than half of the 659 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 659 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like NASHVILLE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Nashville District Management Corp Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NASHVILLE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP?
- NASHVILLE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $195,475 to it, the largest being Vanderbilt University ($127,975). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NASHVILLE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $195,475 in grants to NASHVILLE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NASHVILLE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP?
- Vanderbilt University is the largest funder on record, with $127,975 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NASHVILLE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP 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 2017–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing