Tennessee · Nonprofit
NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY
NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY (Tennessee) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,077,475 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($2,704,204). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 124
- Grants received
- $6.1M
- Net assets
- $6.1M
What Nashville Humane Association Aka Nashville Humane Society does
Mission
Nashville humane is committed to promoting humane education, controlling pet overpopulation and finding responsible homes for the homeless and adoptable pet community in nashville and through tennessee.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Pet adoptions: nha provided shelter, medical care, and vaccines for 3,139 animals in 2024.pet food bank: in 2024 nashville humane association distributed 17 tons of food to animals in need. The need for resources has increased with our focus on keeping animals in homes with their owners. We are spending more resources in the community than ever before in an effort to keep pets out of the shelter and with their human owners.
$2,436,573 spent$440,865 earned by the program61% of program spendingSpay and neuter programs: in 2024, 2,250 animals were sterilized whether to place up for adoption or for our rover program to assist peer shelters who lack a veterinarian.
$1,557,979 spent$1,173 earned by the program39% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,994,552.
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 2020 to 2021, from $4.6M to $5.2M (+12%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2023 14% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Laura Baker
Executive director
Board chair
Michelle Cotton
Board president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 60 funders, grant income rose $491k → $847k.
19 of 124 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 124 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 HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 53%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
74% 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 HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 54% · 2019 64% · 2020 60% · 2021 39% · 2022 31% · 2023 38% — 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.
How long its funders stay
51% of NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% give in more than one year at all.
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
68% of NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY'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 $1.9M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Against its field
NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY's revenue grew 91% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Nashville Humane Association Supp Fdn · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY?
- NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY (Tennessee) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,077,475 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($2,704,204). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 124 organizations giving $6,077,475 in grants to NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY, 89 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,704,204 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY 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 124 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