Tennessee · Nonprofit
BLACK LEMONADE
BLACK LEMONADE (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,116 to it, the largest being THE DAN AND MARGARET MADDOX FUND INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $445k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $14k
What Black Lemonade does
Mission
Afterschool program & summer camp-turning lemons into lemonade for our minority & unmderserved communities. We have developed student leaders that took the initiative to find problems wihin their school, communities &personal lives & were able to come up with proposed solutions
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
A youth development program focused on leadership,self-confidence and community involvement through themed educational activities.It also functions as a service to engage youth in structured programming during the out of school timemonths.
$57,218 spent$39,802 earned by the program57% of program spendingA youth program that provides mentorship and leadership skill-building during afterschool hours also serving as a service to support academic and personal development for students.
$39,075 spent39% of program spendinga paid internship program designed to empower minority and underserved high school students by preparing them for a career field that continues to lack representation-technology. Throughout the program students explore multiple areas of tech including game design photography 3D design digital music and more. The latter part of the internship expands beyond technical training engaging students in specialized workshops mentorship and community partnerships. Interns connect with organizations leaders and mentors who guide them in navigating and shaping workplaces and schools. Students then apply their tech skills as a marketing and advocacy tool creating digital content that educates the broader community on the importance of leadership within the field
$3,375 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $99,668.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1k to $46k (+3819%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 88% · 2024 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of BLACK LEMONADE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BLACK LEMONADE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BLACK LEMONADE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% 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
36% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BLACK LEMONADE.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of BLACK LEMONADE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BLACK LEMONADE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BLACK LEMONADE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLACK LEMONADE: 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 BLACK LEMONADE?
- BLACK LEMONADE (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,116 to it, the largest being THE DAN AND MARGARET MADDOX FUND INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLACK LEMONADE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $31,116 in grants to BLACK LEMONADE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLACK LEMONADE?
- THE DAN AND MARGARET MADDOX FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLACK LEMONADE 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 3 funders 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. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing