Tennessee · Nonprofit
EVERY VALLEY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
EVERY VALLEY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,969 to it, the largest being CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($252,690). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $89k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $298k
- Net assets
- $35k
What Every Valley Leadership Academy does
Mission
Our mission is to lift up Chattanooga's youth with a message of hope and an experience of God's glory. Every Valley has provided Chattanooga's young people with opportunities to participate in a bold mission that takes their challenges and their perspectives seriously. No matter what sort of valley they face, no matter how big the obstacle, no matter how uneven the ground, no matter how rough the terrain, we teach them to hang on to the goodness and greatness of God. Then watch Him show everyone His glory,
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Every Valley's intervention with youth ages 13-23 has been met with much appreciation from our participants and their families, as well as from community leaders, educators, and other service providers. Our strategy of engaging young people "Where they are" brings us face to face with situations of interpersonal conflict, gang activity, and the criminal justice system. We also intervene when we encounter school absenteeism, deficiencies in academic achievement and behavioral issues. We serve those who feel misunderstood and marginalized and who struggle with losing all hope.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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. 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 2024 to 2025, from $52k to $35k (−34%).
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.
100% of EVERY VALLEY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Diane Reed
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $32k → $80k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 EVERY VALLEY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY’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
EVERY VALLEY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% 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
85% 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 EVERY VALLEY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 81% · 2023 87% — 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
85% of EVERY VALLEY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY'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 $45k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $253k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
EVERY VALLEY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY's revenue fell 20% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,305 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like EVERY VALLEY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
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.
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EVERY VALLEY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: 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 EVERY VALLEY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY?
- EVERY VALLEY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,969 to it, the largest being CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($252,690). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EVERY VALLEY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $297,969 in grants to EVERY VALLEY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EVERY VALLEY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY?
- CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $252,690 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EVERY VALLEY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing