Tennessee · Nonprofit
CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT OF SUCCESS
CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT OF SUCCESS (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $199,828 to it, the largest being THE MOODYS FOUNDATION ($50,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $200k
- Net assets
- $382
What Creating an Environment of Success does
Mission
Youth about business has provided entreprenueral training to over 400 children between theages of 10-18. The ownership management program allow youths between 14-18 to applybusiness principles learned in the center in real world situations. The mentoring programallow youths between 10 - 13 to shadow business owners during the summer. Students arealso eligible to receive scholarships upon graduation of high schools
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Youth about business has provided entrepreneural training to over 400 children between the ages of 10-18. The ownership management program allows youth between 14-18 to apply business principles learned in the center in real world situations. The mentoring program allows youths between 10-13 to shadow business owners during the summer. Students are also eligible to receive scholarships upon graduation of high school.
$922,949 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $922,949.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $951k to $1.4M (+43%).
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 26% · 2021 14% · 2024 27% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT OF SUCCESS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
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
Samuel E Kirk
President & CEO
Board chair
Michael Davis
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $40k → $837.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT OF SUCCESS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 funders by total. 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
CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT OF SUCCESS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
71% 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 CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT OF SUCCESS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2020 99% · 2021 57% · 2022 58% · 2023 84% — 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
20% of CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT OF SUCCESS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT OF SUCCESS draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT OF SUCCESS receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $200k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,060 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT OF SUCCESS
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
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 CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT OF SUCCESS: 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 CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT OF SUCCESS?
- CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT OF SUCCESS (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $199,828 to it, the largest being THE MOODYS FOUNDATION ($50,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT OF SUCCESS have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $199,828 in grants to CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT OF SUCCESS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT OF SUCCESS?
- THE MOODYS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT OF SUCCESS 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 13 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing