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Emma Fila Foundation

Emma Fila Foundation (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,100 to it, the largest being WAYNE G BASLER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$11k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$100k
Net assets
$100k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 81%
01What it does

What Emma Fila Foundation does

Mission

Providing Educational Scholarships

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Providing Educational Scholarships

    $3,000 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $3,000.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($124k) Expenses 100 ($2k) Net assets 100 ($122k)2022 Revenue 1 ($2k) Expenses 246 ($6k) Net assets 97 ($117k)2023 Revenue 2 ($3k) Expenses 356 ($9k) Net assets 92 ($111k)2024 Revenue 11 ($14k) Expenses 874 ($21k) Net assets 85 ($104k)2025 Revenue 9 ($11k) Expenses 619 ($15k) Net assets 82 ($100k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (9)Expenses (619)Net assets (82)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 2023 to 2024, from $111k to $104k (−7%).

$122k
$117k
$111k
$104k
$100k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Emma Fila Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$122k
’21
−$4k
’22
−$6k
’23
−$8k
’24
−$4k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $100k → $100.

From the IRS filings of Emma Fila Foundation’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

Emma Fila Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 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

100% of Emma Fila Foundation's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

NY
TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Emma Fila Foundation's revenue fell 91% between 2021 and 2025.

Operating margin−31% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−45% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

25%

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Emma Fila Foundation: 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 Emma Fila Foundation?
Emma Fila Foundation (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,100 to it, the largest being WAYNE G BASLER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Emma Fila Foundation have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $100,100 in grants to Emma Fila Foundation.
Who is the largest funder of Emma Fila Foundation?
WAYNE G BASLER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Emma Fila Foundation 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 2 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