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Tennessee State University Foundation

To promote and support literacy, scientific, educational,scholarship,research, and developmental goals at tennessee state university.

$6.8M
Granted FY2023
1
Itemized grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$803k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$803,457
Largest grant, FY2023
$803,457
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$134M

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Largest grants in FY2023.

Tennessee State University$803,457

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Find your warmest path to Tennessee State University Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Tennessee State University Foundation

How much does Tennessee State University Foundation give?
Tennessee State University Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $803,457, out of $6,779,449 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing.
What does Tennessee State University Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Where is Tennessee State University Foundation based?
Tennessee State University Foundation is based in TN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 1 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $5.9M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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