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BIOTN FOUNDATION INC DBA LIFE SCIENCE TENNESSEE FOUNDATION

BIOTN FOUNDATION INC DBA LIFE SCIENCE TENNESSEE FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $880,894 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORP ($791,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$301k
Revenue FY2024
2
Funders on record
$881k
Grants received
$78k
Net assets
2/2 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

BIOTN FOUNDATION INC DBA LIFE SCIENCE TENNESSEE FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,771 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($188k) Expenses 100 ($156k) Net assets 100 ($61k)2018 Revenue 20 ($38k) Expenses 8 ($13k) Net assets 141 ($86k)2019 Revenue 4 ($7k) Expenses 22 ($34k) Net assets 97 ($59k)2020 Revenue 65 ($122k) Expenses 65 ($101k) Net assets 131 ($80k)2021 Revenue 58 ($110k) Expenses 84 ($130k) Net assets 97 ($60k)2022 Revenue 104 ($196k) Expenses 105 ($163k) Net assets 151 ($92k)2023 Revenue 116 ($218k) Expenses 150 ($234k) Net assets 125 ($77k)2024 Revenue 160 ($301k) Expenses 192 ($300k) Net assets 127 ($78k)
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Revenue (160)Expenses (192)Net assets (127)Peer revenue range
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $37k → $240k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
2
2
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of BIOTN FOUNDATION INC DBA LIFE SCIENCE TENNESSEE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

BIOTN FOUNDATION INC DBA LIFE SCIENCE TENNESSEE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

90%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 77% · 2022 71% · 2023 100%broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

Where its funders are

100% of BIOTN FOUNDATION INC DBA LIFE SCIENCE TENNESSEE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

20
21
22
23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like BIOTN FOUNDATION INC DBA LIFE SCIENCE TENNESSEE FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Tennessee

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIOTN FOUNDATION INC DBA LIFE SCIENCE TENNESSEE FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BIOTN FOUNDATION INC DBA LIFE SCIENCE TENNESSEE FOUNDATION?
BIOTN FOUNDATION INC DBA LIFE SCIENCE TENNESSEE FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $880,894 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORP ($791,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BIOTN FOUNDATION INC DBA LIFE SCIENCE TENNESSEE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $880,894 in grants to BIOTN FOUNDATION INC DBA LIFE SCIENCE TENNESSEE FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BIOTN FOUNDATION INC DBA LIFE SCIENCE TENNESSEE FOUNDATION?
TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORP is the largest funder on record, with $791,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIOTN FOUNDATION INC DBA LIFE SCIENCE TENNESSEE FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. What this page cannot tell you · view filing