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BLEDSOES LICK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

BLEDSOES LICK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being THE OAK TREE CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$49k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$260k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Bledsoes Lick Historical Association does

Mission

Maintain and operate bledsoe fort historical park, a county supported historic site under development, open to and for the benefit for sumner county residents and visitors.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. Maintain and operate bledsoe fort historical park, a county supported historic site under development, open to and for the benefit for sumner county residents and visitors. Sumner county residents and visitors.

    $11,298 spent$35,630 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,298.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($69k) Expenses 100 ($65k) Net assets 100 ($668k)2018 Revenue 140 ($97k) Expenses 128 ($83k) Net assets 102 ($681k)2019 Revenue 154 ($106k) Expenses 156 ($101k) Net assets 103 ($686k)2020 Revenue 125 ($86k) Expenses 147 ($96k) Net assets 101 ($677k)2021 Revenue 9 ($6k) Expenses 57 ($37k) Net assets 36 ($242k)2022 Revenue 22 ($15k) Expenses 14 ($9k) Net assets 37 ($248k)2023 Revenue 19 ($13k) Expenses 26 ($17k) Net assets 37 ($244k)2024 Revenue 31 ($22k) Expenses 37 ($24k) Net assets 36 ($241k)2025 Revenue 29 ($20k) Expenses 28 ($18k) Net assets 36 ($243k)2026 Revenue 71 ($49k) Expenses 49 ($32k) Net assets 39 ($260k)
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Revenue (71)Expenses (49)Net assets (39)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $677k to $242k (−64%).

$668k
$682k
$687k
$677k
$242k
$248k
$244k
$241k
$243k
$260k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 74% · 2018 82% · 2019 87% · 2020 89% · 2021 47% · 2022 28% · 2023 31% · 2024 16% · 2025 51% · 2026 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’17
$13k
’18
$5k
’19
−$9k
’20
−$31k
’21
$6k
’22
−$4k
’23
−$3k
’24
$1k
’25
$18k
’26
34
months of
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.

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Listed19202014141514141414
Joined·+2+3+4+1+1+0+0+0+2
No longer listed·1310101002
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $500.

Funder
'19
'20
'23
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of BLEDSOES LICK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION’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.

Where its funders are

100% of BLEDSOES LICK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

TN

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

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’23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like BLEDSOES LICK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

36% of spending goes to programs.

Program 36%Management 64%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BLEDSOES LICK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION?
BLEDSOES LICK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being THE OAK TREE CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BLEDSOES LICK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,500 in grants to BLEDSOES LICK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BLEDSOES LICK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION?
THE OAK TREE CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BLEDSOES LICK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 1 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