Tennessee · Nonprofit
STARS NASHVILLE
STARS NASHVILLE (Tennessee) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,473,741 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($2,957,633). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $8.5M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Stars Nashville does
Mission
Stars helps young people by offering access to prevention, intervention, & treatment services in schools & communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our school-based prevention, intervention, and mental health counseling services reached over 90,000 young people. We provide a wide range of services to include school-wide assemblies, classroom presentations, crisis support, small group and individual counseling sessions, as well as mental health therapy. Our school-based services support students dealing with various challenges like trauma, violence, ptsd, substance abuse, depression, grief, loss, & bullying. Mental health counseling services are accredited by the commission for the accreditation of rehabilitation facilities (carf).
$9,331,060 spent$8,310,060 earned by the program72% of program spendingStars restorative practice assistants provide services at 39 metro nashville public schools providing over 15,000 restorative interventions. Services provided include the coordination of the re-entry of students from discipline and expulsion to increase access to wraparound supports and connection to school staff. Stars also provides interventions in restorative centers for students, staff and parents experiencing and/or causing harm to resolve the harm and restore relationships and work to reduce racially disproportionate discipline. Restorative practices classrooms are created to support student social emotional learning needs, while teaching conflict resolution and pro-social skills.
$1,796,883 spent$1,947,918 earned by the program14% of program spendingYoda - our intensive adolescent outpatient treatment services are licensed by the tennessee department of mental health services and accredited by the commission for the accreditation of rehabilitation facilities (carf). The program is offered monday, tuesday, wednesday and friday from 3:30 p.m. To 6:30 p.m. August through may. Summer hours are 11:00 a.m. To 2:00 p.m. June through july. Our philosophy of treatment is based on the understanding that addiction is a chronic and progressive disease, affecting the individual across multiple domains; social, mental, physical and spiritual. Therefore, we believe that treatment must be holistic in nature, healing the mind, body and spirit. 50 clients participated in our treatment program with 21 graduating.
$388,546 spent3% of program spendingOther program services includes the following programs: power youth that provides access to employment and on the job training for davidson county college students teaching social and emotional skills; opioid awareness program designed to increase awareness on the dangers of opioids and stimulants, and the available resources for opioid overdose prevention. The vaping awareness/coalition is also included in other program services. The goal of the samhsa funded vaping awareness coalition, nashville thrives, is to increase capacity of diverse stakeholders, including youth service providers and community organizations, to prevent the onset and decrease the progression of ecigarette and other substance misuse among children and youth ages 25 and under. The coalition works to ensure every nashvillian can improve, achieve and sustain health and well-being by advocating, facilitating and creating community-driven policies, systems, resources and services. Stars training programs are a leader in tennessee providing youth prevention curriculum & resources to students across the state. We also provide training and professional development for entire school systems, school administrators,…
$1,399,642 spent$365,251 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,916,131.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $6.6M to $8.3M (+26%).
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 18% · 2021 31% · 2022 25% · 2023 11% · 2024 9% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of STARS NASHVILLE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Rodger Dinwiddie
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $890k → $1.0M.
8 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 STARS NASHVILLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
STARS NASHVILLE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% 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
79% 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 STARS NASHVILLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 32% · 2019 35% · 2020 41% · 2021 46% · 2022 48% · 2023 48% — 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
64% of STARS NASHVILLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
99% of STARS NASHVILLE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $223k 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
STARS NASHVILLE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding STARS NASHVILLE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.8M
- Department of Justice$489k
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 STARS 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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 STARS 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 STARS NASHVILLE?
- STARS NASHVILLE (Tennessee) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,473,741 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($2,957,633). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STARS NASHVILLE have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $8,473,741 in grants to STARS NASHVILLE, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STARS NASHVILLE?
- UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,957,633 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STARS 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.
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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 2020–2025), and the filings of 37 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