Tennessee · Nonprofit
ELGIN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC
ELGIN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,490,952 to it, the largest being ELGIN FOUNDATION ($17,396,505). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinclocal
- Ncf Charitable Trustportfolio match
- Tennessee Health Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $2.3M → $2.8M.
From the IRS filings of ELGIN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
ELGIN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% 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: 2017 82% · 2018 82% · 2019 79% · 2020 77% · 2021 100% · 2022 80% · 2023 74% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Where its funders are
100% of ELGIN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- United Way of Greater KnoxvilleinclocalTN · funds 103 organizations near you
- Ncf Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tennessee Health Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Smile 180 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mann Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frank Jb & Emma S Varallo Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mountain States Health Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jones Family Right Hand Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Psalms Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wiseheart Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ELGIN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- National Christian Charitable Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELGIN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ELGIN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC?
- ELGIN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,490,952 to it, the largest being ELGIN FOUNDATION ($17,396,505). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELGIN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $21,490,952 in grants to ELGIN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELGIN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC?
- ELGIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $17,396,505 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELGIN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION 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.
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 2funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing