Tennessee · Nonprofit
The 1826 NETWORK
The 1826 NETWORK (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $461,444 to it, the largest being HEINEMANNMARK & JUDY FOUNDATION-IMA ($316,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
The 1826 NETWORK runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,656 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,656 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2021
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Greater Chattanoogalocal
- The Generation Trustportfolio match
- Faith and Learning International NFPportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $70k → $78k.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 The 1826 NETWORK’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
The 1826 NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
32% 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 The 1826 NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 86% · 2021 76% · 2022 60% · 2023 77% — 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.
Where its funders are
The 1826 NETWORK draws 100% 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. $135k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Greater ChattanoogalocalTN · funds 98 organizations near you
- The Generation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Faith and Learning International NFPportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lc and Mary Worley Memorial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ministry Outreach Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Project42portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alvah and Doris Veit Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reed & Jeanne Larson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Melvin and Virginia Hutson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Word of Life Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- University of the Nations Kona Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asi Missions Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like The 1826 NETWORK
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The 1826 NETWORK: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds The 1826 NETWORK?
- The 1826 NETWORK (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $461,444 to it, the largest being HEINEMANNMARK & JUDY FOUNDATION-IMA ($316,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The 1826 NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $461,444 in grants to The 1826 NETWORK, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The 1826 NETWORK?
- HEINEMANNMARK & JUDY FOUNDATION-IMA is the largest funder on record, with $316,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The 1826 NETWORK 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 FY2021 (financials across 2021–2021), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing