Tennessee · Nonprofit
YELLOW BIRD INITIATIVES
YELLOW BIRD INITIATIVES (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,235 to it, the largest being TUCKER FOUNDATION ($78,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $120k
- Net assets
- $36k
What Yellow Bird Initiatives does
Mission
Yellow Bird Initiatives implements a range of activities and collaborations designed to provide shelter and pathways to housing for the unhoused in the hamilton county and bradley county regions.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provides shelter, support services, and pathways to more stable housing for those who are unhoused
$45,937 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $45,937.
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 $34k to $36k (+7%).
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.
100% of YELLOW BIRD INITIATIVES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (52% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Rebecca Whelchel
Executive director (ended april)
Board chair
Ginger Wilson Buchanan
Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $60k → $60k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 YELLOW BIRD INITIATIVES’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
YELLOW BIRD INITIATIVES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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
35% 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 YELLOW BIRD INITIATIVES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 70% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of YELLOW BIRD INITIATIVES's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
YELLOW BIRD INITIATIVES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,781 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,781 housing & shelter nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like YELLOW BIRD INITIATIVES
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YELLOW BIRD INITIATIVES: 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 YELLOW BIRD INITIATIVES?
- YELLOW BIRD INITIATIVES (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,235 to it, the largest being TUCKER FOUNDATION ($78,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YELLOW BIRD INITIATIVES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $120,235 in grants to YELLOW BIRD INITIATIVES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YELLOW BIRD INITIATIVES?
- TUCKER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $78,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YELLOW BIRD INITIATIVES 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 FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), and the filings of 2 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