Tennessee · Nonprofit
TRANSIT ALLIANCE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE
TRANSIT ALLIANCE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,500 to it, the largest being THE FRIST FOUNDATION ($11,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $154k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $58k
- Net assets
- $24k
What Transit Alliance of Middle Tennessee does
Mission
The mission of the Transit Alliance of Middle Tennessee is to encourage both private and public sector support for new investments in mass transit in the ten county region of middle tennessee.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Transit Alliance of Middle Tennessee continued to advance its mission in 2025 as a regional convener and educational resource, supporting a more connected, accessible, and economically competitive middle tennessee.the alliance hosted its 27th award-winning transit citizen leadership academy (tcla), adding new participants and bringing the total alumni network to more than 650 regional leaders. Through this program, participants engaged in educational sessions, field experiences, and collaborative discussions on transportation, land use, and economic development. As a result of their participation, the 2025 cohort developed and presented recommendations to the regional transportation authority (rta) to improve regional mobility, including strategies related to funding, technology, and public engagement.to further its role as a regional convener, the alliance hosted its second annual breakfast for better mobility, which brought together nearly 200 business, elected, and community leaders from across middle tennessee. The event provided a forum to explore the economic return on investment and the broader community value of transit and mobility infrastructure. The alliance also…
$195,524 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $195,524.
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 2023 to 2024, from $149k to $65k (−56%).
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.
100% of TRANSIT ALLIANCE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Stephanie Tillman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $6k.
2 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 TRANSIT ALLIANCE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE’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
TRANSIT ALLIANCE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
63% 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 TRANSIT ALLIANCE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
TRANSIT ALLIANCE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k 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
TRANSIT ALLIANCE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE's revenue fell 44% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TRANSIT ALLIANCE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE
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.
Public support
100%
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 TRANSIT ALLIANCE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: 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 TRANSIT ALLIANCE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE?
- TRANSIT ALLIANCE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,500 to it, the largest being THE FRIST FOUNDATION ($11,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRANSIT ALLIANCE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $57,500 in grants to TRANSIT ALLIANCE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRANSIT ALLIANCE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE?
- THE FRIST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRANSIT ALLIANCE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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