Tennessee · Nonprofit
WEARS VALLEY RANCH INC
WEARS VALLEY RANCH INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,997,390 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,726,796). 18 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
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Wears Valley Ranch Inc does
Mission
Promote the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, social, and physical development of children in need of a stronger family support system, through christ-centered home settings.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential, counseling and recreation programsprovide four homes for children from difficult family situations, group and individual counseling to children, families, and staff who care for them. Recreation includes therapeutic environment using horesmenship, challenge course, swimming, hiking, and other sports to encourage fitness and emotional wellbeing.
$1,594,285 spent$57,576 earned by the program52% of program spendingEducation programprovide accredited k-12 tutorial education to children in the residential program. Curriculum is tailored to each childs learning style and educational needs. Children often advance rapidly, reaching grade level or advanced levels in a short period of time. Abiding in christ radio provides biblical teaching and counsel to strengthen families. Broadcast airs weekdays on xm/sirius satellite radio.
$962,403 spent$72,155 earned by the program31% of program spendingCamp and retreatscamp arrowwood is a week-long christ-centered adventure camp program typically serving 400 campers annually. The ranch typically hosts 500 volunteers and retreat participants annually for services and christian retreats.
$498,911 spent$425,146 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,055,599.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $9.3M to $12M (+24%).
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.
80% of WEARS VALLEY RANCH INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Noah Farnham
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $409k → $717k.
12 of 38 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 WEARS VALLEY RANCH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
WEARS VALLEY RANCH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
74% 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 WEARS VALLEY RANCH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 43% · 2019 52% · 2020 33% · 2021 66% · 2022 25% · 2023 35% — 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
55% of WEARS VALLEY RANCH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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 WEARS VALLEY RANCH 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 $1.6M that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
WEARS VALLEY RANCH INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WEARS VALLEY RANCH 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Jim Wood Ministries Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WEARS VALLEY RANCH INC?
- WEARS VALLEY RANCH INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,997,390 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,726,796). 18 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 WEARS VALLEY RANCH INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $5,997,390 in grants to WEARS VALLEY RANCH INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEARS VALLEY RANCH INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,726,796 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEARS VALLEY RANCH 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 38 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