Tennessee · Nonprofit
FIRST PRIORITY TRI-STATES INC
FIRST PRIORITY TRI-STATES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,081 to it, the largest being KENNETH AND MARTHA SPURLOCK FAMILY FOUNDATION TR ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $71k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $113k
What First Priority Tri-States Inc does
Mission
First priority is an area wide vision with a comprehensive plan of action for churches, students, parents, and community leaders that will create unity, resources, mentoring, & strategy on school campuses to reach & disciple a generation with the love and message of jesus christ.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Student initiated, student led clubs on middle & high school campuses met weekly and held local youth events,including food, music, giveaways, speakers. Generally, these clubs average weekly attendance of over 1500. Due to covid, clubs didnt function as usual. There were still 30 active clubs but due to virtual learning clubs didnt meet. There were 3 salvations in 2020.
$28,196 spent100% of program spendingYouth choir tour to share the word of god in song and drama. Performed in churches, events and mission trip. Some fundraising was done prior to shut downs due to covid. The students were not allowed to continue fundraising, go on their mission trip or attend student leadership university.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $28,196.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2020 to 2021, from $94k to $119k (+27%).
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: 2020 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FIRST PRIORITY TRI-STATES INC’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. 3 of the last 9 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
Williamson Deavours
Executive director
Board chair
Adam Robertson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $18.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 TRI-STATES 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 TRI-STATES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 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 FIRST PRIORITY TRI-STATES INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 TRI-STATES INC is better cushioned than half of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FIRST PRIORITY TRI-STATES 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
34% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FIRST PRIORITY TRI-STATES INC?
- FIRST PRIORITY TRI-STATES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,081 to it, the largest being KENNETH AND MARTHA SPURLOCK FAMILY FOUNDATION TR ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRST PRIORITY TRI-STATES INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,081 in grants to FIRST PRIORITY TRI-STATES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST PRIORITY TRI-STATES INC?
- KENNETH AND MARTHA SPURLOCK FAMILY FOUNDATION TR is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST PRIORITY TRI-STATES 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 2017–2025), 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