Tennessee · Nonprofit
YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE
YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE (Tennessee) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,601,576 to it, the largest being DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ($2,403,285). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $7.6M
- Net assets
- $17M
What YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee does
Mission
The YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. It is the vision of YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee to focus on women and girls who desire to create a better quality of life for themselves and/or their families, to achieve self-sufficiency, and to increase their financial stregnth. Ywca will also be a spokesperson for those women who have no voice. Further, we will raise the awareness and diminish the incidence of violence and racism.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Domestic violence services: fulfilling its mission of empowering women, ywca has been nashville's primary provider of domestic violence services for over 40 years. Ywca domestic violence services offer more than temporary safety; they help break the cycle of violence by offering a continuum of services, including: a 24-hour crisis and information hotline, a 65 bed emergency shelter for women and their children fleeing domestic violence, a 17 unit transitional housing program, community support groups, as well as community outreach and education. In fy25, ywca provided 10,200 nights of safety to 326 adults and children, and answered 5,024 calls to the 24-hour crisis and information line.
$2,672,686 spentof which $81,710 as grants$15,000 earned by the program69% of program spendingFamily learning center: the family learning center offers a comprehensive literacy program designed to assist families in achieving economic empowerment. Free classes are offered to adults pursuing their high school equivalency (hse) diploma. The career services component of the family learning center helps students obtain the knowledge and skills necessary for employment and self-sufficiency. In fy25, 183 students were served and 16 students earned their high school equivalency (hse) diploma.
$371,628 spentof which $4,150 as grants10% of program spendingGirls inc.: girls inc. Inspires all girls to be strong, smart, and bold through life-changing programs and experiences that help girls navigate gender, economic, and social barriers. Research-based curricula, delivered by trained, mentoring professionals in a positive all-girl environment equip girls to achieve academically; lead healthy and physically active lives; manage money; navigate media messages; and discover an interest in science, technology, engineering, and math. Girls inc. Advocates along with girls to change the attitudes and policies that affect girls' lives and limit their potential, with a particular focus on girls who face multiple, intersectional challenges. Girls inc. At ywca served 677 girls with impact in fy25.
$432,507 spentof which $37,500 as grants11% of program spendingAmend together is ywca's primary prevention initiative dedicated to ending violence against women and girls by engaging men and boys to be a part of the solution. Amend together will identify, recruit, educate, and equip members in the community to serve as advocates for violence prevention and cultural change, providing positive role models for young men and boys in the greater nashville area. Amend together strategy engages and educates men and boys, but it is also an effective tool for women. Amend together provides tools to change mentalities, language, and behaviors, thereby transforming the culture that perpetuates violence against women. Amend together will not only raise awareness and change mindsets, but it will also create real, measurable change by challenging, inspiring, and equipping individuals to redefine a culture that supports violence against women. In fy25, amend educated 526 mnps students through its amend clubs.
$387,286 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,864,107.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $11M to $14M (+32%).
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: 2017 21% · 2018 26% · 2019 31% · 2020 36% · 2021 35% · 2022 34% · 2023 30% · 2024 47% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $486k → $769k.
13 of 61 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.3M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE raised.
From the IRS filings of YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 74% · 2019 54% · 2020 43% · 2021 73% · 2022 34% · 2023 27% — 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
36% of YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
85% of YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Government funding YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.6M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$150k
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.
Organizations like YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE
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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE: 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 YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE?
- YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE (Tennessee) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,601,576 to it, the largest being DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ($2,403,285). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $7,601,576 in grants to YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE?
- DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,403,285 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 61 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing