Tennessee · Nonprofit
Entrepreneur Development Center - Southwest Tennessee
Entrepreneur Development Center - Southwest Tennessee (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,056,524 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORP ($1,806,524). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $916k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Entrepreneur Development Center - Southwest Tennessee does
Mission
The Entrepreneur Development Center assists aspiring small business owners by providing education, mentoring, training and knowledge to assist them in their quest to become entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship can do more than just create jobs; it can create new ways to address the challenges that reside in our community. Our mission is to connect entrepreneurs with the critical resources they need to create, build and grow their businesses. These critical resources are experienced mentors, capital, training, knowledge and a supportive community. Related programs to this mission include a coding academy for high school students; funding for medical device research activities for local physcians; and a local life style magazine focused toward community opportunities and business.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Entrepreneur Development Center assists aspiring small business owners by providing education, mentoring, training and knowledge to assist them in their quest to become entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship can do more than just create jobs; it can create new ways to address the challenges that reside in our community. Our mission is to connect entrepreneurs with the critical resources they need to create, build and grow their businesses. These critical resources are experienced mentors, capital, training, knowledge and a supportive community.
$986,991 spentof which $157,501 as grants$233,198 earned by the program100% of program spendingDriving Innovation - mobile labs providing business and entrepreneur development resources for demonstration and training
$4,328 spent0% of program spendingProvide coding education and training for high school students including exploration of the opportunities available in this area as a career.
CoStarters program to train developing entrepreneurs, Our Jackson Home magazine, various workshops and a mobile demonstration and training vehicle.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $991,319.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.3M to $910k (−31%).
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: 2018 84% · 2019 89% · 2020 89% · 2021 88% · 2022 80% · 2023 59% · 2024 42% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of Entrepreneur Development Center - Southwest Tennessee’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Lisa Garner
CEO
Board chair
Ben Ferguson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $275k → $554k.
From the IRS filings of Entrepreneur Development Center - Southwest Tennessee’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
Entrepreneur Development Center - Southwest Tennessee leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
88% 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 Entrepreneur Development Center - Southwest Tennessee.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
88% of Entrepreneur Development Center - Southwest Tennessee's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Entrepreneur Development Center - Southwest Tennessee's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Entrepreneur Development Center - Southwest Tennessee
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Entrepreneur Development Center - Southwest Tennessee?
- Entrepreneur Development Center - Southwest Tennessee (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,056,524 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORP ($1,806,524). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Entrepreneur Development Center - Southwest Tennessee have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,056,524 in grants to Entrepreneur Development Center - Southwest Tennessee, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Entrepreneur Development Center - Southwest Tennessee?
- TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORP is the largest funder on record, with $1,806,524 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Entrepreneur Development Center - Southwest Tennessee 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 2018–2025), 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