Tennessee · Nonprofit
RAPHAH INSTITUTE
RAPHAH INSTITUTE (Tennessee) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,222,919 to it, the largest being IMPACT JUSTICE ($529,311). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $308k
What Raphah Institute does
Mission
Organizations mission-Raphah Institute helps communities heal by designing new pathways for people to access the vital resources they need to thrive we partner with communities most impacted by systemic barriers that lead to generational poverty, violence, and early death to design and implement new systems for people to access what they need to heal and thrive. Specifically our goal is to increase access to high-quality versions of the following resources: healthcare, education, social support systems, economic power, housing and neighborhoods.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
FY25 Early Embrace Program Service Accomplishments From April 6, 2022 through June 30, 2025, Raphah Institute implemented the Early Embrace pilot program to expand neighborhood-based child care capacity and support caregiver entrepreneurship in Nashville communities. In the J.C. Napier and Tony Sudekum communities, 29 caregivers enrolled in training, 22 completed foundational training, 19 completed the full training pathway, and 13 launched as approved or authorized home-based child care providers. Under Tennessee family child care home standards, these providers represent an estimated capacity to serve approximately 65 to 91 children at a time. The program also delivered culturally and linguistically aligned outreach and training in the Spanish-speaking Latino/a community. Ten Spanish-language engagement events reached 59 caregivers and 210 children, and 20 caregivers completed the programs Spanish-language training pathway.
$634,329 spentof which $587,787 as grants51% of program spendingFY25 ARC Program Service Accomplishments ARC provided 635 services, served 66 new clients, and supported 80 case completions (including cases that began in the prior fiscal year and closed in FY25 after program requirements were completed). Case types served included vehicle theft, burglary, and homicide. In FY25, ARC also launched a new pilot in Shelby County, Tennessee to expand access and strengthen program delivery in the region.FY25 ARC Program Service Accomplishments
$612,533 spentof which $647,037 as grants49% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,246,862.
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 2021 to 2022, from $432k to $830k (+92%).
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 25% · 2021 96% · 2022 37% · 2023 68% · 2024 79% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of RAPHAH INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% 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
Travis Claybrooks
CEO
Board chair
Daynise Joseph
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $102k → $335k.
10 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 RAPHAH INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
RAPHAH INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
47% 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 RAPHAH INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 90% · 2019 69% · 2020 50% · 2021 38% · 2022 24% · 2023 30% — 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
40% of RAPHAH INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
RAPHAH INSTITUTE draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $414k 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
RAPHAH INSTITUTE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like RAPHAH INSTITUTE
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RAPHAH INSTITUTE?
- RAPHAH INSTITUTE (Tennessee) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,222,919 to it, the largest being IMPACT JUSTICE ($529,311). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RAPHAH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $2,222,919 in grants to RAPHAH INSTITUTE, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RAPHAH INSTITUTE?
- IMPACT JUSTICE is the largest funder on record, with $529,311 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAPHAH INSTITUTE 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 32 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