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THE CONTRIBUTOR INC

EIN 37-1551739 NASHVILLE, TN

Revenue 2024
$1,487,420
Expenses 2024
$1,400,579

Program services were 87.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 332023

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

PRINT AND DISTRIBUTE A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER THAT FOCUSES ON ISSUES SURROUNDING HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY AND IS SOLD BY HOMELESS AND FORMERLY HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS ON THE STREET AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO PANHANDLING.

  • OUR C.O.V.E.R. HOUSING NAVIGATION PROGRAM OFFERS PERSON-CENTERED SUPPORT TO OUR VENDORS, FROM OBTAINING IDENTIFICATION AND LIFE-LINE PHONES, TO FINDING AND FURNISHING AN APARTMENT, OUR APPROACH IS TESTED ON THE GROUND EVERY SINGLE DAY AND IS ALSO BACKED UP BY ROBUST LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH ACROSS COMMUNITIES WORLDWIDE. THE HOUSING FIRST MODE HAS SHOWN PROMISING RESULTS IN IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND CHANGING THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF UNHOUSED PERSONS. HOWEVER, THE CONTRIBUTOR'S MODEL PROVIDES A CRUCIAL MISSING PIECE: CONSISTENT, REGULAR CONTACT AND SMALL-SCALE AID TO ITS CONSTITUENTS, COMBINED WITH ACTUAL INCOME TO SECURE INTERIM HOUSING AND NECESSITIES. RESEARCH SHOWS OF ALL VENDORS WHO SELL THE CONTRIBUTOR FOR SIX MONTHS OR MORE, OVER SEVENTY PERCENT TRANSITION INTO PERMANENT HOUSING.

    Expenses $1,129,871 · Grants $131,627

  • WE PRINT A BI-WEEKLY, HYPERLOCAL NEWSPAPER THAT CHALLENGES STEREOTYPES SURROUNDING HOMELESSNESS AND TELLS THE STORIES OF OUR CONTRIBUTOR VENDORS. PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS RECEIVE TRAINING AND CREATE THEIR OWN MICRO-BUSINESS BY PURCHASING COPIES OF THE PAPER AND SELLING THEM TO THE PUBLIC. CONTRIBUTOR VENDORS RECEIVE A STARTER PACK THAT ALLOWS THEM TO BEGIN SAFELY SELLING PAPERS IMMEDIATELY, AND A BUS PASS TO RETURN. NOT ONLY DOES THIS INCOME ENCOURAGE DIGNITY AND SELF-ESTEEM AMONG CONTRIBUTOR VENDORS, IT'S ALSO OFTEN THE CRUCIAL LIFELINE BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN NIGHTS ON THE STREETS AND SIGNING THE LEASE ON A HOME TO CALL ONE'S OWN. UNLIKE PANHANDLING, A VENDOR'S PAPER PURCHASES ARE TRACKED IN OUR DATABASE AND CAN BE USED FOR SUBSIDIZED AND TRADITIONAL HOUSING APPLICATIONS.

    Expenses $95,962 · Revenue $91,920

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • WILL CONNELLY

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $122,908
    From this org
    $120,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,908
    Hours/week
    40

  • CATHY JENNINGS

    BOARD MBR/FI

    Total calculated
    $72,987
    From this org
    $65,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,987
    Hours/week
    40

  • TOM WILLS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $52,387
    From this org
    $45,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,387
    Hours/week
    40

  • AMBER DUVENTRE

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KERRY GRAHAM

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTINE DOEG

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DEMETRIA KALODIMOS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEROME MOORE

    PART YR BOAR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • O WADE NELSON JR

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WADDELL WRIGHT

    PART YR BOAR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROBIN KIMBROUGH-HAYES

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JIM SHULMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DREW MORRIS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,487,420
    Expenses
    $1,400,579
    Contributions
    $1,377,851
    Grants paid
    $131,627
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,284,315
    Expenses
    $1,206,375
    Contributions
    $1,212,114
    Grants paid
    $153,251
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,249,483
    Expenses
    $1,021,739
    Contributions
    $1,189,342
    Grants paid
    $247,616

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $820,615
    Expenses
    $756,655
    Assets (EOY)
    $300,877

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $433,409
    Expenses
    $416,827
    Assets (EOY)
    $234,076

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $361,063
    Expenses
    $207,533
    Assets (EOY)
    $217,124

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $552,481
    Expenses
    $683,531
    Assets (EOY)
    $121,415

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $565,995
    Assets (EOY)
    $103,819

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.