Tennessee · Nonprofit
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $527,307 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($260,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $527k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What United Cerebral Palsy of Middle Tennessee Inc does
Mission
Each year, united cerebral palsy of middle tennessee serves tennessee with programs targeted at our mission to advance the independence and full citizenship of people with disabilities. We provide services to individuals of all ages who have a variety of disabilities with focus on disabilities that primarily affect mobility. United cerebral palsy of middle tennessee serves as the area clearinghouse for information about the condition known as cerebral palsy, and we advocate for sound public policy to advance the rights of the citizens we serve with all forms of disabilities. Our vision is a fully inclusive community, where people with disabilities have access and opportunity to achieve their fullest potential; a community where all persons realize the promise of integration, self-direction, and quality of life choices. Our consumers have a wide variety of physical disabilities-at present, approximately 22% of ucp consumers have cerebral palsy, and 78% have disabilities other than cereb
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The durable medical equipment exchange program provides durable medical and adaptive equipment and essential hygiene and other supplies to people throughout tennessee, regardless of their diagnosis. The agency acquires new and gently used durable medical equipment, as well as new, unopened supplies, to distribute to individuals who have little or no insurance and no other resources to obtain the items they need. In fiscal year 2024-25, the program supplied 1,401 placements to 458 recipients. Service data does not reflect the additional number of individuals who received services through 29 schools, charities, hospitals and other qualifying organizations that serve multiple individuals with the equipment they receive.
$462,527 spentof which $362,804 as grants37% of program spendingThe rutherford county family support program is designed to assist individuals with severe disabilities and their families to remain together in their homes and communities through provision of direct supports for disability-related expenses that are not covered by insurance or other state-provided programs. The tennessee legislature established the family support program to serve each county in tennessee. Ucp provides this service for rutherford county. The program is funded by state dollars through the tennessee department of intellectual and developmental disabilities, and in fiscal year 2024-25, the program supplied services to 181 persons with disabilities in rutherford county.
$442,296 spentof which $350,584 as grants36% of program spendingUnited cerebral palsy builds ramps and coordinates state-wide construction of wheelchair ramps for individuals with mobility disabilities whose homes are without proper accessibility. We also perform a limited number of disability-related housing modifications, such as bathroom modifications for wheelchair access. Working in conjunction with collaborating agencies, volunteers from churches, civic clubs, and other area groups, ucp spearheads the construction of wheelchair ramps on to the homes of persons with disabilities across the state of tennessee. Lumber and supplies for the program are funded through a grant from the tennessee housing development agency (thda). In fiscal year 2024-25, the program supplied services to 141 persons with disabilities across tennessee.
$268,456 spentof which $168,925 as grants22% of program spendingThe leadership development program is a joint project with the tennessee council on developmental disabilities. This fund is non-disability specific, and is available to people with disabilities throughout the state of tennessee. The fund allows individuals with disabilities and their assistants or family members to attend disability-related educational conferences and workshops, and it promotes and develops self-advocacy skills among individuals with disabilities and their families. In fiscal year 2024-25, the program supplied services to 460 individuals, including people with disabilities and the parents of children with disabilities. Sports and recreation: the ucp sports and recreation program is a volunteer-spearheaded seasonal activity for people with disabilities and their families that takes place on designated thursday evenings and weekends. Activities include wheelchair basketball, bowling, picnics and special outings. In fiscal year 2024-25, the program encompassed services to 35 individuals with disabilities as well as a number of volunteer program participants. Holiday giving: each year volunteers gather and distribute gifts for families caring for individuals with…
$62,334 spentof which $32,379 as grants5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,235,613.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.1M to $2.6M (+23%).
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 35% · 2018 29% · 2019 39% · 2020 32% · 2021 44% · 2022 49% · 2023 44% · 2024 51% · 2025 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC’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. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $77k → $26k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MIDDLE 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
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 88% · 2019 41% · 2020 73% · 2021 100% · 2022 64% · 2023 98% — 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.
How long its funders stay
10% of UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 21% 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
74% of UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $137k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $391k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC's revenue fell 27% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC
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In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC?
- UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $527,307 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($260,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $527,307 in grants to UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC is the largest funder on record, with $260,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MIDDLE 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.
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 14 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