Tennessee · Nonprofit
THE STORE INC
THE STORE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,202,227 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($1,056,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $8.0M
What The Store Inc does
Mission
Aim to solve hunger issues in the community by operating a year-round free grocery store allowing people to shop for their basic needs and partnering with other organizations on issues of food security.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The store operates as a year-round free grocery store allowing people to shop for their basic needs. There is no charge to those referred or to the people and agencies that send them. They may shop for food to supplement their income during times of crisis and as they work toward self-sufficiency. During 2024 and 2023, the store served 965 and 416 households, respectively, by providing bi-weekly shopping where customers may shop for their own grocery items. The store served an additional 1,509 households in 2024 with a single emergency shopping trip program. Shoppers can expect to find items such as: fresh produce, milk, meats, eggs, and dietary friendly options. The store also has a children's area where children can play and read while caregivers shop.a philosophy of community empowerment means we aim to solve hunger issues in our community by developing programs to meet the needs of the community, including partnering with other organizations on issues of food security. The store partners with the belmont family wellbeing program which offers families services, programming, and support to help reduce stress. Services are offered by belmont university faculty, staff, students,…
$1,600,957 spentof which $973,192 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,600,957.
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 2018 to 2019, from $596k to $3.0M (+400%).
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 5% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of THE STORE 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. 0 of the last 7 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
Collen Meyer
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $75k → $300k.
16 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 STORE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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
THE STORE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
49% 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 STORE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 67% · 2019 72% · 2020 13% · 2021 19% · 2022 36% · 2023 33% — 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.
How long its funders stay
16% of THE STORE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
THE STORE INC draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 STORE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding THE STORE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $32k on record.
- NJ$17k
- FL$15k
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 THE STORE 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 THE STORE 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 STORE INC?
- THE STORE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,202,227 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($1,056,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE STORE INC have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $5,202,227 in grants to THE STORE INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE STORE INC?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,056,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE STORE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 74 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing