Tennessee · Nonprofit
STAND UP NASHVILLE
STAND UP NASHVILLE (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,143,039 to it, the largest being Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ($995,539). 9 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
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Stand Up Nashville does
Mission
Organized for the charitable purpose of advocating for inclusive development policies, and to do what is necessary to empower communities to stand up and take action to create lasting change for the economic good of people of the city.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Communications: we use online communications and popular education to validate, inform, and organize working people in order to reach people who may not be able to attend in-person events.
$302,110 spent$103,913 earned by the program39% of program spendingOrganizing: we organize and train grassroots leaders to participate in the civic process through meetings, trainings and communications. Trained leaders work with our staff to lead canvasses, organize outreach meetings, and collaborate with other community groups.
$273,731 spent35% of program spendingQuality of life- housing & workforce: housing and workforce development are our biggest cornerstone for our quality of life, significantly impacting every other socio-economic issue we may face.
$137,366 spent18% of program spendingFiscal sponsorship
$67,500 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $780,707.
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 2019 to 2020, from $89k to $509k (+475%).
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: 2018 100% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of STAND UP NASHVILLE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Odessa Kelly
Executive director
Board chair
Maure Lee Albert
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $115k → $535k.
6 of 13 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $326k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money STAND UP NASHVILLE raised.
From the IRS filings of STAND UP NASHVILLE’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
STAND UP NASHVILLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 STAND UP NASHVILLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 65% · 2020 30% · 2021 27% · 2022 38% · 2023 33% — 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
50% of STAND UP NASHVILLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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 STAND UP NASHVILLE'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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
STAND UP NASHVILLE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,299 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like STAND UP NASHVILLE
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 STAND UP NASHVILLE: 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 STAND UP NASHVILLE?
- STAND UP NASHVILLE (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,143,039 to it, the largest being Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ($995,539). 9 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 STAND UP NASHVILLE have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $3,143,039 in grants to STAND UP NASHVILLE, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STAND UP NASHVILLE?
- Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $995,539 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STAND UP NASHVILLE 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.
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 13 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