Tennessee · Nonprofit
NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION
NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,500 to it, the largest being GIBSON GIVES FOUNDATION DBA GIBSON GIVES ($9,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $439k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Nashville Songwriters Foundation does
Mission
To educate, archive and celebrate songwriting that is uniquely associated with the nashville songwriting community.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
To educate, honor, & promote those engaged in the songwriting profession.
$358,804 spent$438,721 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $358,804.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $1.4M (+6%).
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: 2021 13% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 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
Mark Ford
Executive director
Board chair
Rich Hallworth
Chairman
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
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 FOUNDATION
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
73% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION: 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 FOUNDATION?
- NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,500 to it, the largest being GIBSON GIVES FOUNDATION DBA GIBSON GIVES ($9,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $9,500 in grants to NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION?
- GIBSON GIVES FOUNDATION DBA GIBSON GIVES is the largest funder on record, with $9,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 1 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