Tennessee · Nonprofit
RHEA OF SUNSHINE INCORPORATED
RHEA OF SUNSHINE INCORPORATED (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,015 to it, the largest being RHEA COUNTY UNITED WAY ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Rhea of Sunshine Incorporated does
Mission
Rhea of sunshine, incorporated believes and maintains the philosophy that all people have the right to make their own choices and to live, work and socialize in their community as dictated by their abilities, not their disabilities. This concept of normalization requires that every person be permitted to function in the least restrictive environment possible, with assistance to maximize independence in all aspects of daily living.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To provide residential support and training, educational, occupational, and social services to persons suffering emotional, physical and mental disabilities
$3,633,747 spent$145,232 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,633,747.
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.
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 $1.5M to $1.8M (+23%).
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: 2017 93% · 2018 94% · 2019 93% · 2020 93% · 2021 90% · 2022 95% · 2023 94% · 2024 94% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of RHEA OF SUNSHINE INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Darlene Nichols
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $10k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 RHEA OF SUNSHINE INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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
RHEA OF SUNSHINE INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 RHEA OF SUNSHINE INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of RHEA OF SUNSHINE INCORPORATED's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
RHEA OF SUNSHINE INCORPORATED is better cushioned than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like RHEA OF SUNSHINE INCORPORATED
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RHEA OF SUNSHINE INCORPORATED: 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 RHEA OF SUNSHINE INCORPORATED?
- RHEA OF SUNSHINE INCORPORATED (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,015 to it, the largest being RHEA COUNTY UNITED WAY ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RHEA OF SUNSHINE INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $13,015 in grants to RHEA OF SUNSHINE INCORPORATED, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RHEA OF SUNSHINE INCORPORATED?
- RHEA COUNTY UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RHEA OF SUNSHINE INCORPORATED 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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