Tennessee · Nonprofit
NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL
NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,000 to it, the largest being COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC ($65,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $198k
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What Nashville Songwriters Association International does
Mission
The Nashville Songwriters Association International (nsai) consists of a body of creative minds, including songwriters from all genres of music, professional and amateur, who are committed to protecting the rights and future of the profession of songwriting and to educate, elevate and celebrate the songwriter and to act as a unifying force within the music community and the community at large.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Member support through workshops, online evaluation, professional guidance and education.
Awards - celebrating and recognizing the acheivements of songwriters of all genres within the music community.
Advocacy efforts to protect the rights and future of the profession of songwriting.
Provided legistative support for members
The 4 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.5M to $4.7M (+88%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Barton Herbison
Exec. Director
Board chair
Roger Brown
Legislative chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $70k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL’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 SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 38% · 2019 50% · 2020 100% · 2022 60% · 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
60% of NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL'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.
Organizations like NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL
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 4 related entities
- Nsai Productions LLC · disregarded
- Bluebird Licensing LLC · disregarded
- Bluebird Cafe Inc · corp_trust
- Neon Bird Productions LLC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL?
- NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,000 to it, the largest being COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC ($65,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $198,000 in grants to NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL?
- COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL 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 7 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