Tennessee · Nonprofit
The Arc of Tennessee Inc
The Arc of Tennessee Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $441,712 to it, the largest being THE HEALING TRUST FORMERLY BAPTIST HEALING HOSPITAL TRUST ($180,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $442k
- Net assets
- $634k
What The Arc of Tennessee Inc does
Mission
To promote the general well-being of all citizens with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Advocacy, Education and Public Awareness - The Arc of Tennessee provides information and referral to anyone who contacts the office seeking assistance, individual advocacy as needed, and training/workshops/consultation on in a variety of areas including self-determination, person-centered practice, self-advocacy, and others. We also conduct paths planning alternative tomorrows with hope for individuals and organizations upon request.
$578,248 spent22% of program spendingPASS Project Personal Assistance Supports and Services - Enhances community supports by demonstrating amodel of self-directed personal assistance through the provision of tools, mentoring and trainings to allow individuals with disabilities to manage and control their own care.
$124,250 spent5% of program spendingFamily Engagement in Education - The Arc of Tennessee Partners with the Tennessee Department of Eductation through a contract to increase the quality and quantity of family engagement in special education. We reach families statewide in many ways including an E-newsletter, social media, our website and more. This year we launched our own dedicated website with resources for families and teachers at familyengagementtn.com. After COVID had us pivot to doing more virtually, we have continued to work closely with the team at the department of education to provide information to families through monthly facebook live QA sessions. We launched a pilot project working with the special education directors and family resource directors in six districts across the state to target family engagement practices and create parent support groups and parent advisory councils specifically for families of students ith disabilities which we are excited to bring statewide next school year.
$1,431,268 spent53% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 28,695, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 People First - Funding provided to revitalize People First TN - a self-advocacy organization for self-advocates, run by self-advocates. People First TN is charged with growing membership, developing local chapters, providing training for self-advocates and addressing policy and system issues important to people with disabilities across the state. Program Service Expenses 336,501, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 SDM - The SDM grant funds a program to provide formalized decision-making supports for people with I/DD who do not have any natureal supports to assist them.It also created a SDM advisory council to discuss barriers to implementing decision-making supports other than conservatorship for people with I/DD and develop strategies for addressing those barriers Program Service Expenses 19,831, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 MAPs Peer Mentoring Services - The MAPS Peer Mentoring Services grant is funded through the Tennessee Department of Disability and Aging. The program empowers participants in the MAPS program by offering personal insights, encouragement and assistance in achieving goals related to…
$552,075 spent21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,685,841.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.6M to $2.6M (+58%).
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 92% · 2019 94% · 2020 95% · 2021 79% · 2022 85% · 2023 83% · 2024 92% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of The Arc of Tennessee Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Robbie Faulkner
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $42k → $26k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 Arc of Tennessee Inc’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 Arc of Tennessee Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 Arc of Tennessee Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 57% · 2019 57% · 2020 61% · 2021 37% · 2022 99% · 2023 71% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of The Arc of Tennessee Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
71% of The Arc of Tennessee Inc's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
The Arc of Tennessee Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like The Arc of Tennessee 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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Arc of Tennessee 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 The Arc of Tennessee Inc?
- The Arc of Tennessee Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $441,712 to it, the largest being THE HEALING TRUST FORMERLY BAPTIST HEALING HOSPITAL TRUST ($180,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Arc of Tennessee Inc have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $441,712 in grants to The Arc of Tennessee Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Arc of Tennessee Inc?
- THE HEALING TRUST FORMERLY BAPTIST HEALING HOSPITAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Arc of Tennessee 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 12 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