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Tennessee Technological University Foundation

The Tennessee Technological University Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation whose purpose is to provide guidance and assistance for a program of private gift support for tennessee tech. More specifically its purposes are to promote the development program at tennessee tech; provide advice, counsel, and assistance to the…

$13M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$9.3M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$9,263,863
Largest grant, FY2025
$9,263,863
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$158M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Tennessee Technological University Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$9.3M0%
FY20241$7.2M0%
FY20231$2.0M0%
FY20221$2.4M0%
FY20212$2.6M50%
FY20201$1.3M0%
FY20191$2.1M0%
FY20181$1.9M0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$32MCommunity Improvement$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Tennessee Technological University$32,180,9719n/a
Leadership Putnam Inc$10,0001n/a

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About Tennessee Technological University Foundation

How much does Tennessee Technological University Foundation give?
Tennessee Technological University Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $9,263,863, out of $12,660,537 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Tennessee Technological University Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%), Community Improvement (0%).
Who are Tennessee Technological University Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tennessee Technological University ($32M), Leadership Putnam Inc ($10k).
Does Tennessee Technological University Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Tennessee Technological University Foundation based?
Tennessee Technological 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 2 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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