Tennessee · Nonprofit
Whole Child Strategies Inc
Whole Child Strategies Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,687,181 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($5,623,466). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $597k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $6.7M
- Net assets
- $112k
What Whole Child Strategies Inc does
Mission
We provide funds and infrastructue that enables communities to leverage their collective expertise toward improving school attendance rates and decreasing the numbers of suspensions and expulsions.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Neighborhood Capacity Building Partners
$686,978 spent$596,933 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $686,978.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $793k to $138k (−83%).
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: 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Whole Child Strategies Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 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
Natalie J McKinney
Executive Director/Co-Founder
Board chair
Adriane Johnson-Williams
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $1.9M → $245k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 Whole Child Strategies 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
Whole Child Strategies Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 Whole Child Strategies Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 97% · 2020 82% · 2021 88% · 2022 80% · 2023 61% — 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
84% of Whole Child Strategies 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 $1.0M that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.6M 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
Whole Child Strategies Inc's revenue fell 56% between 2022 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,636 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like Whole Child Strategies 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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Whole Child Strategies Inc: 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 Whole Child Strategies Inc?
- Whole Child Strategies Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,687,181 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($5,623,466). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Whole Child Strategies Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $6,687,181 in grants to Whole Child Strategies Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Whole Child Strategies Inc?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,623,466 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Whole Child Strategies 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 FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), 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