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HUMANITIES TENNESSEE

EIN 62-0933337 NASHVILLE, TN

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Revenue 2024
$2,276,039
Expenses 2024
$1,725,169

Program services were 66.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A70C
Classification
1200
Street
615 MAIN ST SUITE B19

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

TO FOSTER COMMUNITY AND CIVILITY IN TENNESSEE THROUGH PUBLIC PROGRAMS THAT EXAMINE AND REFLECT UPON IDEAS, STORIES, HISTORY, ARTS, AND CULTURE.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $436,577 · Grants $125,105

  • SOUTHERN FESTIVAL OF BOOKS SINCE 1989, THE SOUTHERN FESTIVAL OF BOOKS: A CELEBRATION OF THE WRITTEN WORD HAS WELCOMED AUTHORS AND READERS TO DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE FOR A WEEKEND OF READINGS, SIGNINGS, PERFORMANCES, AND CELEBRATION. THE MISSION OF THE FESTIVAL HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO PROVIDE A FREE, EASILY ACCESSIBLE EVENT THAT PROVIDES ACCESS TO ANYONE WITH AN INTEREST IN READING IN AN ENVIRONMENT THAT IS RICH IN CULTURE IN CONVERSATION, INCLUSIVE, RESPECTFUL, AND ENCOURAGING OF LIFELONG LEARNING. THE 36TH ANNUAL SOUTHERN FESTIVAL OF BOOKS WAS HELD OCTOBER 26-27, 2024, AT BICENTENNIAL CAPITOL MALL STATE PARK, THE TN STATE MUSEUM, AND THE TN STATE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES, AND FEATURED MORE THAN 175 AUTHORS.

    Expenses $677,472 · Revenue $70,047

  • CHAPTER 16 IN RESPONSE TO THE LOSS OF BOOK COVERAGE IN NEWSPAPERS AROUND THE STATE, HUMANITIES TENNESSEE FOUNDED CHAPTER16.ORG IN 2009 TO PROVIDE COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE OF LITERARY NEWS AND EVENTS IN TENNESSEE. EACH WEEKDAY THE SITE POSTS FRESH CONTENT THAT FOCUSES ON AUTHOR EVENTS ACROSS THE STATE AND NEW RELEASES FROM TENNESSEE AUTHORS. IN ADDITION, CHAPTER 16 MAINTAINS PARTNERSHIPS WITH NEWSPAPERS IN EACH MAJOR MEDIA MARKET STATEWIDE, AND OUR CONTENT APPEARS IN PRINT EACH WEEK THROUGH THE MEMPHIS COMMERCIAL APPEAL, THE NASHVILLE SCENE, AND THE KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL. THROUGH THE SITE, SOCIAL MEDIA, A WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, AND OUR NEWSPAPER PARTNERSHIPS, CHAPTER 16 REACHES MORE THAN HALF A MILLION READERS - CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O

    Expenses $33,327

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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.

  • Tim Henderson

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $126,202
    From this org
    $104,221
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,981
    Hours/week
    40

  • James McKissic

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John Talbott

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mary Pom Claiborne

    PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Barry Allen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Judy Barker

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Caroline Bradshaw

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Elaine Christian

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark Dudney

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Julie Forkner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Courtney Gregg

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bonnie Grzeszczak

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mary Kennedy Hendershot

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Heather Hoover

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Angie Davis Jones

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Pablo Mazariegos

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Allison Stansberry

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chandra Ward

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Carol McCoy

    PART YEAR DI

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kathryn McBride

    PART YEAR DI

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Daphene McFerren

    PART YEAR DI

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $2,276,039
    Expenses
    $1,725,169
    Contributions
    $2,208,885
    Grants paid
    $125,105
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,724,907
    Expenses
    $1,684,254
    Contributions
    $1,745,870
    Grants paid
    $117,799
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,562,958
    Expenses
    $1,591,066
    Contributions
    $1,520,790
    Grants paid
    $171,501

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
    $2,324,740
    Expenses
    $2,247,077
    Assets (EOY)
    $634,896

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,235,214
    Expenses
    $1,167,329
    Assets (EOY)
    $559,048

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,975,402
    Expenses
    $1,966,623
    Assets (EOY)
    $951,390

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,357,968
    Expenses
    $1,313,763
    Assets (EOY)
    $591,284

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,197,891
    Expenses
    $1,228,774
    Assets (EOY)
    $558,796

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,315,773
    Expenses
    $1,185,545
    Assets (EOY)
    $528,471

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,134,834
    Expenses
    $1,140,174
    Assets (EOY)
    $349,370

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,062,675
    Expenses
    $1,063,409
    Assets (EOY)
    $301,822

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

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

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Grants received

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.