Tennessee Respite Coalition

Analysis

Tennessee Respite Coalition is a registered charity in United States, based in Nashville, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2024, Tennessee Respite Coalition reported income of $1.1m and spending of $1.1m, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2024, income grew from $599k to $1.1m (+77%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Tennessee Respite Coalition sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 81st percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Treatment Homes Incorporated ($1.1m), Family and Community Together ($1.1m) and Urgent Inc ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% and program service revenue 0.3% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $104k (9.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $294k. It paid $1,699 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $283k against liabilities of $227k, net assets of $56k. It reported 11 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.