Tennessee · Nonprofit
TENNESSEE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
TENNESSEE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,130 to it, the largest being AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ($115,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $119k
- Net assets
- $7.0M
What Tennessee Medical Association does
Mission
Form 990 - organizations mission the Tennessee Medical Association is a nonprofit organization, which exists primarily to federate and bring into one compact organization, through the component societies, the medical profession of the state. The organization enhances the effectiveness of physicians throughout the state and protects the health interests of patients by defining and promoting quality, safe and effective medical care, public policy to protect the sanctity of the physician - patient relationship and improve access to and the affordability of quality medical services, ethics and competence in medical education and practice, and open communications between the medical profession and the public, fostering a better understanding of the capacities of medical practice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education and events - tma offers a variety of online and in-person programs to help physicians fill continuing education gaps. From brief videos to leadership training to a large annual conference, our proprietary content helps tennessee doctors maintain a professional licensure and certifications, and improve their competence and knowledge. Thousands of physicians participate in tmas education and events.
$3,437,655 spent100% of program spendingAdvocacy - tma carries the collective voice of physicians from across the state on capitol hill, working directly with lawmakers to influence public policies affecting the practice of medicine. Tma protects the medical profession by relentlessly pursuing laws that improve physicians effectiveness, and fighting regulatory changes that jeopardize the physician, the physician-patient relationship, or add administrative burden without improving the delivery of care. Tma advocates on behalf of patients to improve the quality, safety, accessibility and affordability of medical care in tennessee.
Membership and communication - tma represents all tennessee doctors and successfully influences laws, rules and regulations that determine how healthcare is delivered in tennessee. We serve around 9,000 members. Tma organizes over 15 meetings throughout the year. Tma has a magazine published five times a year and an annual report.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,437,655.
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 2021 to 2022, from $7.8M to $6.8M (−13%).
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%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Chief executive
Russell Miller Jr
CEO
Board chair
Joseph Huffstutter
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $65k → $35k.
From the IRS filings of TENNESSEE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION’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
TENNESSEE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 TENNESSEE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
TENNESSEE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like TENNESSEE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Tennessee Medical Association · exempt
- Tennessee Medical Education Fund · exempt
- Tennessee Foundation for Quality Pa · exempt
- Tma Component Societies · exempt
- Tennessee Physicians' Quality Verfi · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TENNESSEE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: 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 TENNESSEE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION?
- TENNESSEE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,130 to it, the largest being AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ($115,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TENNESSEE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $119,130 in grants to TENNESSEE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TENNESSEE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION?
- AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TENNESSEE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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