Tennessee · Nonprofit
ROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE
ROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE (Tennessee) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,647,229 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($296,435). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Rocketown of Middle Tennessee does
Mission
To create culturally relevant environments that foster vital relationships between disenfranchised adolescents and christian mentors in order to meet social, spiritual, and physical needs of the teens. Rocketown has visitors representing every social demographic of the greater nashville area and surroudning counties.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The sixth avenue skatepark: rocketown's mission is to offer hope to the next generation through christ's love. The skatepark offers an ever- changing ever-cool experience that attracts youth. Our goal is to offer creative, social, and spiritual programs through the skatepark. During the fiscal year ending in 2025, 6,151 youth participated in skate-oriented programs.
$373,982 spent$322,329 earned by the program20% of program spendingMusic venue: rocketown's mission is to offer hope to the next generation through christ's love. The music venue offers ever-changing ever-cool experiences that attract youth. Our goal is to offer creative, social, and spiritual programs through the music venue environment. During the fiscal year ending in 2025, 3,277 youth participated in this type of program.
$841,461 spent$40,306 earned by the program45% of program spendingOther program services: rocketown's mission is to offer hope to the next generation through christ's love. Rocketown offers job preparedness and life-skill development through afterschool programming with our partner, mcgavock high school. We also offer creative, social, and spiritual opportunities that attract kids, such as dance classes, summer camps, music lessons, art lessons, and bible studies. During the fiscal year ending in 2025, approximately 15,027 youth participated in this type of program.
$654,470 spent$69,190 earned by the program35% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,869,913.
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 2021 to 2022, from $11M to $14M (+37%).
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 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2021 15% · 2022 15% · 2023 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of ROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Brian Hay
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $227k → $280k.
9 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 ROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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
ROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
49% 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 ROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 25% · 2019 25% · 2020 19% · 2021 20% · 2022 19% · 2023 46% — 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
44% of ROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
94% of ROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $590k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
ROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE?
- ROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE (Tennessee) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,647,229 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($296,435). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $1,647,229 in grants to ROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $296,435 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE 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 45 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