Tennessee · Nonprofit
Center on Business and Poverty Inc
Center on Business and Poverty Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,000 to it, the largest being HOUSING MINISTRIES OF AMERICAN BAPTISTS IN WISCONSIN CORPORATION ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $576k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $71k
- Net assets
- $119k
What Center on Business and Poverty Inc does
Mission
The Center on Business and Povertys mission is to alleviate poverty through: Financial Literacy improving the financial wellness of employees through training programs and the measurement of an individuals financial well-being. Employee Ownership and Participatory Capitalism supporting companies in creating and launching employee ownership. Entrepreneurship and Creating Jobs Working with and training company executives to embrace financial literacy training employee ownership and creating jobs in low-income communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The Gail Project: We conducted special educational sessions for high-level executives for Gail Limited located in Filmcity Noda Uttar Pradesh 201301 India at Oxford University. Gail is the largest home cooking gas supplier in India. We trained them on how to develop solar energy the role of natural gas the advantages of participatory capitalism employee ownership conducting financial literacy training and creating entry level jobs for their low-income population. We also taught them ways to help their population move away from using wood dung and other types of dangerous fuel they may be using to cook with inside their homes. Through this process 610,000 lives are saved as consumers use the gas instead of other dangerous fuel sources
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Financial Literacy: We have worked with another non-profit organization to develop a financial literacy training program for low-income individuals who will watch animated videos on financial topics and afterwards take a simple eight item survey to measure their learning progress. This program will be made available to employers and organizations that are interested in training their employees or members on ways to improve their financial situation.
$35,586 spent$44,900 earned by the program10% of program spendingEmployee Ownership: We have organized an International Oxford Symposium on Employee Ownership. 2024 was the third year that the symposium has taken place. The aim is to bring together individuals and organizations active in employee ownership from across the world to share ideas and learning. The number of nations represented was impressive: there were at least 20 countries attending including Australia Japan Denmark Slovenia Canada the UK and the US.
$175,292 spent$223,566 earned by the program49% of program spendingThe Gail Project: We conducted special educational sessions for high-level executives for Gail Limited located in Filmcity Noda Uttar Pradesh 201301 India at Oxford University. Gail is the largest home cooking gas supplier in India. We trained them on how to develop solar energy the role of natural gas the advantages of participatory capitalism employee ownership conducting financial literacy training and creating entry level jobs for their low-income population. We also taught them ways to help their population move away from using wood dung and other types of dangerous fuel they may be using to cook with inside their homes. Through this process 610,000 lives are saved as consumers use the gas instead of other dangerous fuel sources.
$144,983 spent$307,742 earned by the program41% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $355,861.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $27k to $-42287 (−255%).
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.
8% of Center on Business and Poverty Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
John Hoffmire
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $20k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 on Business and Poverty 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 on Business and Poverty Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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
92% 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 on Business and Poverty Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Center on Business and Poverty Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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
Center on Business and Poverty Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Center on Business and Poverty Inc
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 on Business and Poverty 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 on Business and Poverty Inc?
- Center on Business and Poverty Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,000 to it, the largest being HOUSING MINISTRIES OF AMERICAN BAPTISTS IN WISCONSIN CORPORATION ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Center on Business and Poverty Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $71,000 in grants to Center on Business and Poverty Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Center on Business and Poverty Inc?
- HOUSING MINISTRIES OF AMERICAN BAPTISTS IN WISCONSIN CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Center on Business and Poverty 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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