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NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION

NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION (Tennessee) receives grants from 206 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,735,009 to it, the largest being THE FRIST FOUNDATION ($3,593,325). 126 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$19M
Funders on record
206
Grants received
$22M
Net assets
$31M
126/206 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Nashville Rescue Mission does

Mission

Nashville Rescue Mission, formerly known as nrm holdings, inc., fein 45-2424130, continues the mission services established in 1954, by Nashville Rescue Mission, fein 62-6018832. Following god's command to love our neighbors as ourselves, Nashville Rescue Mission seeks to help the hurting of middle tennessee by offering food, clothing and shelter to the homeless and recovery programs to those enslaved in life-degrading problems. Our goal is to help people know the saving grace of jesus, and through him, gain wisdom for living, find fulfillment in life and become a positive part of their community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Guest services ministries :with two campuses-one for men and one for women and children-the mission is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Nashville Rescue Mission serves three hot meals a day, every day. Hot showers, clean clothes, overnight shelter, case management, access to computers and internet, job assistance, travel assistance, and other transformative services are available to those in need. Overnight guests for both campuses combined averaged 800 nightly, with 437k meals served as of 9/30/2025.

    $5,858,071 spent
    41% of program spending
  2. Distribution of food, clothing and other essentials to people in need of help.

    $3,939,255 spentof which $3,799,604 as grants
    27% of program spending
  3. Recovery ministries:the mission's life recovery program is a comprehensive, christ-centered, 12-month, residential, program designed to help men and women (18 and over) overcome their battle with addiction, homelessness, and other broken lifestyles. Individual and group counseling, along with bible classes, life skills classes, adult education, job training, transitional housing, and living in community with others, helps them rebuild their life on a solid foundation rooted in god's word. There were 183 program students (including 61 who have graduated) as of 9/30/2025.

    $4,257,900 spent
    30% of program spending
  4. Public awareness:providing information to the public regarding needs of the community and the mission's program services.

    $324,775 spent
    2% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,380,001.

02The 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 ($14M) Expenses 100 ($14M) Net assets 100 ($17M)2018 Revenue 98 ($14M) Expenses 102 ($14M) Net assets 100 ($17M)2019 Revenue 103 ($15M) Expenses 106 ($15M) Net assets 101 ($17M)2020 Revenue 131 ($19M) Expenses 112 ($16M) Net assets 122 ($20M)2021 Revenue 182 ($26M) Expenses 110 ($15M) Net assets 188 ($32M)2022 Revenue 139 ($20M) Expenses 116 ($16M) Net assets 213 ($36M)2023 Revenue 126 ($18M) Expenses 211 ($29M) Net assets 147 ($25M)2024 Revenue 166 ($24M) Expenses 136 ($19M) Net assets 178 ($30M)2025 Revenue 134 ($19M) Expenses 136 ($19M) Net assets 182 ($31M)
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Revenue (134)Expenses (136)Net assets (182)Peer revenue range

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 $22M to $32M (+47%).

$17M
$17M
$17M
$22M
$32M
$38M
$27M
$31M
$31M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2019
2020
2021
2022
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2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 888 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$604k
’17
$70k
’18
$156k
’19
$3.4M
’20
$11M
’21
$4.1M
’22
−$11M
’23
$5.2M
’24
$623k
’25
5.7
months of
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

Glenn Cranfield

Pres/CEO

Board chair

Eric Ward

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed252223252425252625
Joined·+4+3+4+0+10+0+7+3
No longer listed·72219064
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 49 funders to 98 funders, grant income rose $649k → $3.0M.

28 of 206 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 RESCUE MISSION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 206 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 RESCUE MISSION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

41% 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 RESCUE MISSION.

17%
largest funder
42%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 13% · 2019 22% · 2020 51% · 2021 28% · 2022 28% · 2023 16% — 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

53% of NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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

92% of NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

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

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION is better cushioned than half of the 488 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve5.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 7%Fundraising 17%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 9 states

CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
TN
AL
GA
FL

Part of a family of 14 related entities

  • 1705 7th Ave Series · disregarded
  • 1707 7th Ave Series · disregarded
  • 1709 7th Ave Series · disregarded
  • 1716 Rosa Parks Blvd Series · disregarded
  • 639 Lafayette St Series · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION?
NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION (Tennessee) receives grants from 206 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,735,009 to it, the largest being THE FRIST FOUNDATION ($3,593,325). 126 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION have?
IRS filings report 206 organizations giving $21,735,009 in grants to NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION, 126 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION?
THE FRIST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,593,325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION 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 206 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing