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EDUCATIONAL & MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE SOCIETY OF CPAS

EDUCATIONAL & MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE SOCIETY OF CPAS (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,686 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2026
$3.1M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$38k
Net assets
$4.1M
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Educational & Memorial Foundation of Tennessee Society of Cpas does

Mission

To further the study, and/or teaching of accountancy and related fields through provision of educational opportunities to the cpa profession and providing scholarships for promising young accounting students.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Cpe course costs for 870 courses attended by 24,113 participants throughout the 2025 - 2026 fiscal year.

    $1,972,799 spent$1,970,306 earned by the program
    88% of program spending
  2. Scholarships for 141 students attending colleges in tennessee and majoring in accounting.

    $268,000 spentof which $268,000 as grants
    12% of program spending
  3. N/a

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,240,799.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($2.5M) Net assets 100 ($1.9M)2018 Revenue 108 ($2.7M) Expenses 100 ($2.5M) Net assets 110 ($2.1M)2019 Revenue 105 ($2.7M) Expenses 98 ($2.5M) Net assets 118 ($2.2M)2020 Revenue 103 ($2.6M) Expenses 98 ($2.5M) Net assets 115 ($2.2M)2021 Revenue 96 ($2.4M) Expenses 74 ($1.9M) Net assets 168 ($3.2M)2022 Revenue 98 ($2.5M) Expenses 85 ($2.1M) Net assets 183 ($3.5M)2023 Revenue 94 ($2.4M) Expenses 89 ($2.2M) Net assets 181 ($3.4M)2024 Revenue 99 ($2.5M) Expenses 94 ($2.4M) Net assets 199 ($3.8M)2025 Revenue 93 ($2.4M) Expenses 96 ($2.4M) Net assets 205 ($3.9M)2026 Revenue 120 ($3.1M) Expenses 94 ($2.4M) Net assets 217 ($4.1M)
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Revenue (120)Expenses (94)Net assets (217)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.3M to $3.3M (+42%).

$2.0M
$2.2M
$2.5M
$2.3M
$3.3M
$3.7M
$3.6M
$3.9M
$4.0M
$4.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

11% of EDUCATIONAL & MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE SOCIETY OF CPAS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
’17
$219k
’18
$175k
’19
$137k
’20
$571k
’21
$365k
’22
$149k
’23
$159k
’24
−$63k
’25
$683k
’26
1.4
months of
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

Kara Fitzgerald

President/CEO

Board chair

Heather Batson

Chair

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed20191313131316171817
Joined·+2+1+2+4+2+6+4+5+3
No longer listed·372423344
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $500 → $91.

4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 EDUCATIONAL & MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE SOCIETY OF CPAS’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

EDUCATIONAL & MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE SOCIETY OF CPAS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 EDUCATIONAL & MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE SOCIETY OF CPAS.

40%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 54% · 2023 55% — diversifying over time.

“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

100% of EDUCATIONAL & MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE SOCIETY OF CPAS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $50 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EDUCATIONAL & MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE SOCIETY OF CPAS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 88 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · above the median
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 88 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026

Organizations like EDUCATIONAL & MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE SOCIETY OF CPAS

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

124
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

84%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants · exempt
  • Tennessee Society of Cpas Group (Chapters) · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds EDUCATIONAL & MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE SOCIETY OF CPAS?
EDUCATIONAL & MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE SOCIETY OF CPAS (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,686 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does EDUCATIONAL & MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE SOCIETY OF CPAS have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $37,686 in grants to EDUCATIONAL & MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE SOCIETY OF CPAS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EDUCATIONAL & MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE SOCIETY OF CPAS?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EDUCATIONAL & MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE SOCIETY OF CPAS 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 5 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