Tennessee · Nonprofit
FIRST PRIORITY OF AMERICA INC
FIRST PRIORITY OF AMERICA INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,253,038 to it, the largest being CARY BROWN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,485,589). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What First Priority of America Inc does
Mission
To unite the body of local body of christ to influence the middle and high schools with the gospel of jesus christ
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Training youth ministers how to equip, ecourage, and empower secondary school students to minister to their campuses.
$1,558,534 spent83% of program spendingTraining youth ministers how to equip, ecourage, and empower secondary
$308,176 spent17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,866,710.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.3M to $647k (−50%).
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: 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of FIRST PRIORITY OF AMERICA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Cary Brown
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $22k → $801k.
13 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 FIRST PRIORITY OF AMERICA INC’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
FIRST PRIORITY OF AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 FIRST PRIORITY OF AMERICA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 72% · 2019 58% · 2020 85% · 2021 56% · 2022 38% · 2023 31% — 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.
How long its funders stay
60% of FIRST PRIORITY OF AMERICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
FIRST PRIORITY OF AMERICA INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
FIRST PRIORITY OF AMERICA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FIRST PRIORITY OF AMERICA INC
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIRST PRIORITY OF AMERICA 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FIRST PRIORITY OF AMERICA INC?
- FIRST PRIORITY OF AMERICA INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,253,038 to it, the largest being CARY BROWN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,485,589). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRST PRIORITY OF AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $4,253,038 in grants to FIRST PRIORITY OF AMERICA INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST PRIORITY OF AMERICA INC?
- CARY BROWN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,485,589 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST PRIORITY OF AMERICA 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.
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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 25 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