Tennessee · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN TECHNOLOGY
CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN TECHNOLOGY (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $600,000 to it, the largest being Aviv Foundation Inc ($600,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $88k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $600k
- Net assets
- $65k
What Center for Research and Education in Technology does
Mission
Charitable purposes within the meaning of 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended (or the corresponding any future unitied states internal revenue code). Such puroses shall include, but not limited to, the coordination of the acquisition and installment of state-of-the-art dental equipment and dental schools throughout the united states. In doing so the corporation will assist in the development of the dental profession by providing dental students with the educational opportunity to be trained on the use of the latest dental technology.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Program service accomplishments: the establishment of innovation centers at a number of us dental schools. The innovation centers provide dental students with a private practice experience where they treat patients utilizing a variety of advanced technologies from numerous dental manufacturers.
Program service accomplishments: dental industry was included in curriculum decision making. Several annual meetings are held with dental school deans, faculty & students where cret member companies have an active role in deciding advance technologies introduced, including educational training and which part of the curriculum students are exposed.
Program service accomplishments: improving public dental care for patients and promoting advanced technology into schools so students can perfrom the best patient care. Cret is a facilitator between the dental university and cret member companies. Members provide advanced technology so dental students can treat patients with state of the art technologies.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $101k to $69k (−31%).
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.
93% of CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN TECHNOLOGY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Debra Bridges
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN TECHNOLOGY’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
CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN TECHNOLOGY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.
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.
Against its field
CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN TECHNOLOGY has grown faster than half of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN TECHNOLOGY
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN TECHNOLOGY: 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 RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN TECHNOLOGY?
- CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN TECHNOLOGY (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $600,000 to it, the largest being Aviv Foundation Inc ($600,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN TECHNOLOGY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $600,000 in grants to CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN TECHNOLOGY.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN TECHNOLOGY?
- Aviv Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN TECHNOLOGY 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 2021–2024), 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