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Withers Collection Inc

Withers Collection Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,149 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($147,200). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$409k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$203k
Net assets
$16M
1/4 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Withers Collection Inc does

Mission

Collect, categorize and preserve historical photographs of Dr. Earnest Withers

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Categorization, preservation and digitalization of photographs of Dr. Earnest Withers Sr.

    $299,222 spent$409,006 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $299,222.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($779k) Expenses 100 ($730k) Net assets 100 ($62k)2019 Revenue 39 ($307k) Expenses 49 ($355k) Net assets 23 ($14k)2020 Revenue 9 ($71k) Expenses 35 ($252k) Net assets 26579 ($17M)2021 Revenue 39 ($305k) Expenses 40 ($292k) Net assets 26167 ($16M)2022 Revenue 52 ($404k) Expenses 48 ($349k) Net assets 26256 ($16M)2023 Revenue 39 ($304k) Expenses 29 ($209k) Net assets 26320 ($16M)2024 Revenue 53 ($409k) Expenses 65 ($477k) Net assets 26275 ($16M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (53)Expenses (65)Net assets (26275)Peer revenue range

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 $14k to $17M (+116988%).

$62k
$14k
$17M
$17M
$17M
$17M
$17M
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 12% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Withers Collection Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$49k
’18
−$48k
’19
−$181k
’20
$12k
’21
$55k
’22
$95k
’23
−$68k
’24
0.1
months of
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

Rosalind Withers

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed8999966
Joined·+1+0+0+1+1+0
No longer listed·000140
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $47k → $9k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 Withers Collection Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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

Withers Collection Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

77% 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 Withers Collection Inc.

72%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 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

77% of Withers Collection 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 $47k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state.

FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $156k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Withers Collection Inc's revenue fell 47% between 2018 and 2024.

Operating margin−17% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−10% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding Withers Collection Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $248k on record.

Federal$248k
grants $248kcontracts $0
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18
23
24
Top agencies
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services$248k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 37%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

TN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Withers Collection 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 Withers Collection Inc?
Withers Collection Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,149 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($147,200). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Withers Collection Inc have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $203,149 in grants to Withers Collection Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Withers Collection Inc?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $147,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Withers Collection 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 4 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