Tennessee · Nonprofit
RURAL MEDICAL SERVICES INC
RURAL MEDICAL SERVICES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,225,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,800,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Rural Medical Services Inc does
Mission
The organization provides health care to individuals regardless of their ability to pay. This is a direct fulfillment of their tax exempt purpose.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides health care regardless of the individuals ability to pay. These medical services are provided in areas that have a shortage of health care providers. This is a direct fulfillment of their tax exempt purpose. Over 51,500 visits were provided during the year.
$12,859,044 spent$12,034,454 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,859,044.
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 2020 to 2021, from $9.8M to $12M (+27%).
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 31% · 2018 30% · 2019 30% · 2020 26% · 2021 35% · 2022 35% · 2023 32% · 2024 24% · 2025 29% · 2026 24%. 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
Amy Bradshaw
Interim chief executive officer/chief financial officer
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $0.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 RURAL MEDICAL SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 6 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
RURAL MEDICAL SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 RURAL MEDICAL SERVICES INC.
“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
81% of RURAL MEDICAL SERVICES INC'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 $425k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M 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.
Government funding RURAL MEDICAL SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $31.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$31.6M
- Department of Agriculture$99k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like RURAL MEDICAL SERVICES INC
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 RURAL MEDICAL SERVICES INC: 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 RURAL MEDICAL SERVICES INC?
- RURAL MEDICAL SERVICES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,225,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,800,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RURAL MEDICAL SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $2,225,000 in grants to RURAL MEDICAL SERVICES INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RURAL MEDICAL SERVICES INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RURAL MEDICAL SERVICES INC 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 6 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