Tennessee · Nonprofit
YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC
YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $292,148 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($171,609). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Saint Thomas West Hospitalshared funderslocal
- Charleys Kids Foundationportfolio match
- Youth for Christusa Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $140k → $20k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 72% · 2019 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
90% of YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Saint Thomas West Hospitalshared funderslocalMO · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · funds 53 organizations near you
- Charleys Kids Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Youth for Christusa Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Youth for Christ Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Evolve502 Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Devos Urban Leadership Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Roop Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Stover Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peyback Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Watkins Christian Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Taco Bell Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC?
- YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $292,148 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($171,609). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $292,148 in grants to YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC?
- UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $171,609 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing