Tennessee · Nonprofit
COMMISSION ON MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN
COMMISSION ON MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,373 to it, the largest being Anda Foundation ($9,995). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $33k
What Commission on Missing & Exploited Children does
Mission
To assist parents and guardians in the care, support, and protection of children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Participate in Amber Alerts, provide drug screening services,adminster child safety, counseling, mentorship, and juvenileaccountability programs.
$66,990 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $66,990.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $74k to $33k (−55%).
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.
100% of COMMISSION ON MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Len Edwards
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $9.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 COMMISSION ON MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN’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
COMMISSION ON MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
100% 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 COMMISSION ON MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 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
COMMISSION ON MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
COMMISSION ON MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN's revenue fell 55% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like COMMISSION ON MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMISSION ON MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN: 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 COMMISSION ON MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN?
- COMMISSION ON MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,373 to it, the largest being Anda Foundation ($9,995). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMISSION ON MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $11,373 in grants to COMMISSION ON MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMISSION ON MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN?
- Anda Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $9,995 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMISSION ON MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN 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 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