Tennessee · Nonprofit
COOKEVILLE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE
COOKEVILLE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,592 to it, the largest being HEES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $92k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $65k
What Cookeville Police Athletic League does
Mission
The specific objectives and purposes of this corporation shall be to promote education and recreational opportunities for children of cookeville and the surrounding community through community based programs that will help the children become productive contributing members of society
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Cookeville Human Fund program is designed to provide assistance for those individuals encountered by law enforcement needing immediate relief for short-term problems that can be addressed with a minimum expenditure of funds. While exceptions may exist these situations typically include people needing food baby food shoes diapers fuel prescription medication emergency lodging prescription glasses clothing bedding for children haircuts for job interviews food gift cards transportation services towing minor car repair etc. Even though the recipients normally do not receive cash they are nonetheless carefully vetted. People that receive help normally reside in Putnam County or find themselves in our county at their time of need. The Cookeville Human Fund does not assist with rent utilities or longer-term problems like home repairs e.g. plumbing issues electrical problems roofing HVAC system repair etc..
$54,041 spent69% of program spendingShopping with Heroes is the 3rd Annual Community Heroes for the Holidays shopping event. Thanks to our wonderful partnerships with Academy Sports and Nissan of Cookeville our community heroes will be teaming up to shop with 60 local children. Thanks to these sponsorships weve been able to bring this event to life creating unforgettable memories for the participating children that will last a lifetime.
$24,102 spent31% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $78,143.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $163k to $52k (−68%).
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 COOKEVILLE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $44.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 COOKEVILLE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE’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
COOKEVILLE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 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
86% of COOKEVILLE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $92 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
COOKEVILLE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like COOKEVILLE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE
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 COOKEVILLE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: 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 COOKEVILLE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE?
- COOKEVILLE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,592 to it, the largest being HEES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COOKEVILLE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $3,592 in grants to COOKEVILLE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COOKEVILLE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE?
- HEES FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COOKEVILLE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE 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 2021–2025), 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