The Nashville Bar Foundation

Analysis

The Nashville Bar Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Nashville, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1981, 45 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, The Nashville Bar Foundation reported income of $167k and spending of $188k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $169k to $167k (-1.5%), an average of -0.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 45%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, The Nashville Bar Foundation sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile, and in the 50th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include People for Community Improvement ($167k), Lawyers Defending American Democracy Inc ($167k) and Advocacy Outreach ($167k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 62% and program service revenue 11% of the total. At year end it held assets of $603k against liabilities of $9,710, net assets of $593k.