Tennessee · Nonprofit
ROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS
ROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS (Tennessee) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,849,087 to it, the largest being THE ASSISI FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS INC ($500,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $536k
What Room in the Inn - Memphis does
Mission
Sheltering those experiencing homelessness in a safe environment of hospitality.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Three programs shelter and feed individuals, families, and the medically fragile experiencing homelessness while assisting with their journey toward housing in Memphis, Tennessee. Volunteers gave over 21,500 hours to shelter, feed, transport, and provide hospitality to guests experiencing homelessness. Support from private donations, businesses and corporations, private and corporate foundations, and government grants made it possible to operate three programs: 1) emergency shelter during the winter for street-level individuals, 2) year-round emergency shelter for families, and 3) respite care for medically fragile individuals. During the fiscal year, 62 households exited homelessness and 35 individuals gained new employment. Approximately 27,980 meals were served through the combined programs.Program Summaries: Congregational Shelter: A network of 38 diverse congregations opened their doors to provide food and shelter to people who are experiencing street-level homelessness from November through March each year and May through September. 5,959 warm, safe beds were provided over 240 nights. Family Inn:Families experiencing homelessness live in the comfort of a private room with an…
$1,505,806 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,505,806.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $695k to $2.3M (+237%).
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 6% · 2021 40% · 2022 20% · 2023 29% · 2024 9% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of ROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
John May
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 15 funders, grant income rose $7k → $389k.
12 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 ROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS’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
ROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
58% 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 ROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 51% · 2020 78% · 2021 38% · 2022 36% · 2023 45% — 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
60% of ROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
54% of ROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $855k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $994k 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
ROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 ROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS: 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 ROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS?
- ROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS (Tennessee) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,849,087 to it, the largest being THE ASSISI FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS INC ($500,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,849,087 in grants to ROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS?
- THE ASSISI FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 28 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