· Public charity
Tennesseans for Quality Early Education Policy and Research
To advance state policies and practices that ensure all tennessee children birth through 3rd grade get the high quality early education they need to power our state's future.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLE | $50,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BALLAD HEALTH | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF WEST TN | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFTENNESSEANS FOR QUALITY EARLY EDUCATION4× · 2019–2022 · $781k · revenue +61% · 75% of their budget
- CCCHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +80%
- UWUNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +162%
Funded once
Vanderbilt Universityone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +24%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tennesseans for Quality Early Education Policy and Research funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tennesseans for Quality Early Education Policy and Research. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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