Tennessee · Nonprofit
NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT
NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT (Tennessee) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,860,567 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TENNESSEE INC ($7,340,624). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.5M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Nashville International Center for Empowerment does
Mission
The mission of the Nashville International Center for Empowerment is to ensure refugees and immigrants achieve their full potential now and for generations to come.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Social Services Program supported 748 refugees in 2025. Services included finding housing for clients, setting up health appointments, enrolling children in school, enrolling in eligible benefits programs and referring to ESL classes and employment support.
$2,528,095 spentof which $272,749 as grants$1,210,509 earned by the program37% of program spendingThe Social Adjustment Program served 775 people in 2025. Services include immigration consultations, assistance with filing forms, public notarization, and additional services designed to make the process clearer and more manageable. Additional clients were served through housing/rental, utilities, and other resettlement based assistance via this program.
$1,907,014 spentof which $211,744 as grants$384,015 earned by the program28% of program spendingThe Employment Program supported 222 job placements in 2025. Services provided included skills inventories, on-line and paper job application support, resume development, workforce preparedness and English classes.
$1,896,646 spentof which $180,464 as grants$1,751,450 earned by the program28% of program spendingThe Health Program provided support to approximately 811 clients in 2025. Services include classes, seminars, and mentorship on nutrition, disease prevention, child development, mental health, and healthy lifestyles. Clients also received assistance finding doctors, support navigating insurance, and initial appointment scheduling.
$329,869 spentof which $136,936 as grants$2,185,403 earned by the program5% of program spendingThe Adult Education Program served 1,222 clients in 2025. Services included classes in English Language Learner (ELL), digital literacy, citizenship, and high school diploma prep.
$140,700 spentof which $650 as grants$1,264,014 earned by the program2% of program spendingThe Youth Education Program helps provide refugee families, and those in the community serving refugees, with the skills and information needed for children of refugee families to success in their schools and communities. 222 students were served in 2025.
$15,914 spent$711,962 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,818,238.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.2M to $3.3M (+169%).
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: 2020 78% · 2021 69% · 2022 75% · 2023 95% · 2024 96% · 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Dr Gatluak Thach
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $553k → $1.4M.
9 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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 INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 71% · 2019 66% · 2020 51% · 2021 57% · 2022 48% · 2023 64% — 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
75% of NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
99% of NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $834k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$834k
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 INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT?
- NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT (Tennessee) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,860,567 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TENNESSEE INC ($7,340,624). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $12,860,567 in grants to NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT?
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,340,624 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 34 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