Tennessee · Nonprofit
The Synergy Foundation Incorporated
The Synergy Foundation Incorporated (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $678,203 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH ($480,475). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $678k
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What The Synergy Foundation Incorporated does
Mission
To empower individuals with drug and alcohol addictions and co-occurring disorders with the tools to transform their lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provides a residential self-help program for individuals with drug alcohol crime related problems. The facility offers an alternative to incarceration and treatment for those individuals who can change.
$1,291,549 spent$534,587 earned by the program100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,291,549.
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. 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 $2.7M to $3.6M (+33%).
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 34% · 2018 37% · 2019 44% · 2020 44% · 2021 72% · 2022 58% · 2023 58% · 2024 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of The Synergy Foundation Incorporated’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Kerleska O Pete Conerly
Exec Director
Board chair
Keithley J Barton
Board Chairman Treas
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $66k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Synergy Foundation Incorporated’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 Synergy Foundation Incorporated leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 Synergy Foundation Incorporated.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 71% · 2020 75% · 2021 70% · 2022 46% · 2023 73% — 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
94% of The Synergy Foundation Incorporated's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Synergy Foundation Incorporated holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like The Synergy Foundation Incorporated
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 Synergy Foundation Incorporated: 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 Synergy Foundation Incorporated?
- The Synergy Foundation Incorporated (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $678,203 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH ($480,475). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Synergy Foundation Incorporated have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $678,203 in grants to The Synergy Foundation Incorporated, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Synergy Foundation Incorporated?
- UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH is the largest funder on record, with $480,475 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Synergy Foundation Incorporated 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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