Tennessee · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC
CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,216,327 to it, the largest being YARBROUGH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($509,351). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Center for Living and Learning Inc does
Mission
To provide 24-hour residential care and job training to individuals suffering from mental illness, in a therapeutic environment with emphasis on the highest level of functioning and independent living.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The residence facility provides a home-type environment for adults with severe chronic mental illness.the original facility (phase I) and a new facility (phase iii) each houses 8 residents who receive 24-hour care and supervision. A second facility (phase ii) and fourth facility (phase iv) houses up to 10 residents. These individuals have improved enough to live more independently but they continue to have supervision and stimulation as needed. The residents also participate in group activities that emphasize cooperation and working together as a group. All fees are used to operate the facility and to provide program activities for the residents.
$1,297,499 spent$1,118,832 earned by the program86% of program spendingThe center for living and learning vocational rehabilitation program prepares our trainees to work independently in the community. This is a multi-faceted, individualized process that can look different for each trainee. We believe in a holistic approach that supports the individual's mental, physical and social health. The trainees attend our program five days a week from 8am 12pm. Through lessons, group therapy, and on-site work experience, trainees build job skills and life skills which prepare them to work independently. The center's vocational program is a certified community rehabilitation provider with the vocational rehabilitation program at tennessee department of human services. This program has proven to enhance the lives of the trainees and result in volunteer and/or job placement for the majority of participants. As the trainees demonstrate appropriate skills on a consistent basis, we begin the process of job placement. In order to ensure successful, long-term placement in the community, we provide job coaching to the employee and disability training to the employer. Because we are able to offer this type of support, our trainees are able to maintain successful…
$203,092 spent$8,315 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,500,591.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.9M to $2.7M (−7%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 9% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Frances L Clippard
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $201k → $67k.
5 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC’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
CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 59% · 2019 58% · 2020 52% · 2021 93% · 2022 53% · 2023 83% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
25% of CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
98% of CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $103k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states 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.
Organizations like CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC
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In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Clln Operations LLC · disregarded
- Foundation for Living and Learning Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC: 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 CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC?
- CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,216,327 to it, the largest being YARBROUGH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($509,351). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,216,327 in grants to CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC?
- YARBROUGH FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $509,351 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 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