Tennessee · Nonprofit
NASHVILLE SOFTWARE SCHOOL INC
NASHVILLE SOFTWARE SCHOOL INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $688,333 to it, the largest being CARE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC TWO BRENTWOOD COMMONS ($420,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NASHVILLE SOFTWARE SCHOOL INC has grown faster than half of the 11,749 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,749 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Joe C Davis Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- James Stephen Turner Family Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- Pine Haven Foundation Trust Attn Kevin Crumbolocalportfolio match
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.
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 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of NASHVILLE SOFTWARE SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $9k → $66k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 SOFTWARE SCHOOL INC’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 SOFTWARE SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 66% · 2019 56% · 2020 99% · 2021 47% · 2022 37% · 2023 76% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of NASHVILLE SOFTWARE SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
92% of NASHVILLE SOFTWARE SCHOOL INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Joe C Davis Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchTN · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 139 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- James Stephen Turner Family Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchTN · funds 45 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Pine Haven Foundation Trust Attn Kevin Crumbolocalportfolio matchTN · funds 41 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nashville Public Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jeffrey & Donna Eskind Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blair J Wilson Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Skillup Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cognizant US Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Memorial Foundation Incshared funderslocalTN · backs 58 organizations that share your funders · funds 251 organizations near you
- Southeast Community Capital Corporation D/B/A Pathway LendinglocalTN · funds 513 organizations near you
- United Way of Middle Tennessee Incshared funderslocalTN · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 269 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like NASHVILLE SOFTWARE SCHOOL INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NASHVILLE SOFTWARE SCHOOL INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds NASHVILLE SOFTWARE SCHOOL INC?
- NASHVILLE SOFTWARE SCHOOL INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $688,333 to it, the largest being CARE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC TWO BRENTWOOD COMMONS ($420,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NASHVILLE SOFTWARE SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $688,333 in grants to NASHVILLE SOFTWARE SCHOOL INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NASHVILLE SOFTWARE SCHOOL INC?
- CARE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC TWO BRENTWOOD COMMONS is the largest funder on record, with $420,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NASHVILLE SOFTWARE SCHOOL INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing