Mashup Nashville

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
823275217
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Nashville, TN, USA
Phone
6156013571
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$630,664
Expenses
$408,925
Assets
$339,781
Liabilities
$38,198

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BRIAN I MARSHALL (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
  • ERIC COX (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • BRIAN I MARSHALL (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $63,838 total reported compensation
  • JERRY IVERY (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $62,828 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Mashup works to address health disparities and social injustices that affect queer people of color.

What it reported doing in 2025

Fiscal sponsorship [trans aid nashville]: mashup has provided fiscal sponsorship to an emerging organization without non-for-profit status, trans aid nashville. It makes it possible for them to provide aid, community and building power. For all transgender people in the greater nashville area.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 68% for direct work, and 32% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 62
  • Sustainability: 56
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 47.7%; rating input score 48
  • Program expense ratio: 73.6%; rating input score 74
  • Fundraising efficiency: $22.94 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 89.1%; rating input score 89; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 35.2%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 31%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 37.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 56.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 81.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 47.7% of revenue deployed · 73.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 12 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $301K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $64K · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 59/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.