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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.
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· 6,426 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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 West Tennesseinc Starkslocal
- Nc Ideaportfolio match
- Charlotte Region Chapter of Simportfolio match
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.
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
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.
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 West Tennesseinc StarkslocalTN · funds 20 organizations near you
- Nc Ideaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charlotte Region Chapter of Simportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Changex United States Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Missouri Technology Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vilcap Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Business Development Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Women's Business Centersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Association for Microenterprise Opportunityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Memphis Bioworks Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- East 66th Street Services Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wa Foote Memorial Hospitalportfolio 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 Entrepreneur Development Center - Southwest Tennessee
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
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Entrepreneur Development Center - Southwest Tennessee: 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 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.
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 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. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing