Tennessee · Nonprofit
The Mend House Sober Living Community
The Mend House Sober Living Community (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $590,592 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC ($273,333). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $304k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $591k
- Net assets
- $868k
What The Mend House Sober Living Community does
Mission
The Mend House is a sober living community for men, in Knoxville, Tn. which empowers them to gain control over their actions, decisions and choices. The Mend House allows men to enjoy clean, sober and stable housing for up to 2 years while working towards independence. Evidenced- Based Practices have proven that men who surround themselves with other men, who are sober, will increase the likelihood of long term sobriety. The Mend House will equip the men with the necessary tools needed for ongoing recovery.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Mend House closed it's doors as of December 31, 2024. We transferred all assets to The Hope Well Foundation in an effort that they will be able to continue out our mission.
$408,499 spentof which $77,578 as grants$61,588 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $408,499.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.1M to $0 (−100%).
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: 2022 34% · 2023 25% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of The Mend House Sober Living Community’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $143k → $194k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Mend House Sober Living Community’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 Mend House Sober Living Community leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 Mend House Sober Living Community.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 35% · 2022 35% · 2023 91% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of The Mend House Sober Living Community's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Mend House Sober Living Community has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The Mend House Sober Living Community
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
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Mend House Sober Living Community: 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 Mend House Sober Living Community?
- The Mend House Sober Living Community (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $590,592 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC ($273,333). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Mend House Sober Living Community have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $590,592 in grants to The Mend House Sober Living Community, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Mend House Sober Living Community?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC is the largest funder on record, with $273,333 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Mend House Sober Living Community 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 11 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