Tennessee · Nonprofit
UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC
UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,202,869 to it, the largest being CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($3,252,348). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $6.2M
- Net assets
- $492k
What United Methodist Neighborhood Centers Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to empower children and families through spiritual development, discipleship, and leadership development.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Caminos National is a federal grant managed by Everstand to provide services for children who enter the United States without a guardian. This population is commonly referred to as recently migrated youth. The grant is funded by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Caminos National is a federal grant managed by Everstand to provide services for children who enter the United States without a guardian. This population is commonly referred to as recently migrated youth. The grant is funded by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement.
$600,496 spent27% of program spendingFlagship program serving children afterschool from September until May. This program provides a safe haven and "second home" for students during the year where they experience transformative cultural enrichment through education, character and leadership development, economic empowerment, and faith.
$428,132 spent19% of program spendingDirect social service support that helps families achieve stability through coaching and personal support to achieve education, employment, housing, and health goals as well as access to life's basics.
$352,322 spent16% of program spendingDedicated to connect students to nature, create adventure, and inspire joy across Chattanooga.
$67,181 spent3% of program spendingDedicated to funding and furthering our Programs.
$185,491 spent8% of program spendingOur team has designed Client Support Services to deliver intensive, effective, and specialized community-based services to adults and families in need in Alton Park and surrounding neighborhoods of Chattanooga, TN. These services will include the casework and crisis interventions necessary to assess, plan, link, coordinate, and facilitate on behalf of the client. Resource Access services are designed to prevent extreme crises and to assist clients in reaching their short-term and long-term goals. Client stability and support are the primary program goals.
$275,541 spent12% of program spendingOur Summer Grants Program provides support, resources, and opportunities for local nonprofit organizations and ministries offering youth enrichment during the summer months, ensuring that students' learning and personal growth continues beyond the traditional school year. Through this grant opportunity, we provide summer program funding for organizations that deliver education, discipleship, and/or leadership development programming for youth representing underserved communities, with an average award of $4,000.
$239,024 spentof which $183,860 as grants11% of program spendingDedicated to creating a sustainable urban farm and communal gathering space around food that empowers the community through health education, food access, and economic empowerment.
$3,079 spent0% of program spendingThe Bethlehem Leadership Unit (B.L.U.) is our leadership training program for high school students in the Chattanooga, Tennessee area. B.L.U. seeks to empower youth with the tools they need to be effective citizens by introducing them to the concept of being a leader who serves and values innovation.
$1,937 spent0% of program spendingCreated in 1993 as Independent Youth Services Foundation, the youth basketball club has served youth from all over the Chattanooga area. In 2001, IYSF, Inc. shifted its service model focus to male mentoring, primarily stressing personal and social development with educational attainment. IYSF, Inc. merged with UMNCI in 2019 and became Boys to Men at the Beth, a male mentoring model.
$90,854 spentof which $5,000 as grants4% of program spending
The 10 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,244,057.
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 2021 to 2022, from $382k to $1.9M (+394%).
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 33% · 2018 7% · 2019 10% · 2020 5% · 2021 16% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS 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. 4 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
Reginald F Smith Ii
Executive director
Board chair
Michael Norris
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $55k → $910k.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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
UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 89% · 2019 100% · 2020 77% · 2021 75% · 2022 78% · 2023 72% — 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
64% of UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
61% of UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS 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 $2.4M that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$10k
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 UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS 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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC?
- UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,202,869 to it, the largest being CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($3,252,348). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $6,202,869 in grants to UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC?
- CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,252,348 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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