Tennessee · Nonprofit
FIRST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY
FIRST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY (Tennessee) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,793,523 to it, the largest being CWI WORKS INC ($4,260,065). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $28M
What First Tennessee Human Resource Agency does
Mission
First Tennessee Human Resource Agency is a governmental agency whose primary exempt purpose is providing human resource programs to the cities and counties of northeast tennessee.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The agency provides human resource programs to the cities and counties of northeast tennessee. The agency's programs are funded by federal, state, and local contributions and primarily consist of transportation services, nutritional programs, family support services, and adult day care services.
$10,891,217 spent$3,505,476 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,891,217.
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 2023 to 2024, from $24M to $28M (+20%).
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: 2017 68% · 2018 64% · 2019 63% · 2020 67% · 2021 67% · 2022 67% · 2023 66% · 2024 73% · 2025 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of FIRST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Jason Cody
Executive director
Board chair
Jerry Jordan
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $661k → $556k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $304k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FIRST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY raised.
From the IRS filings of FIRST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY’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 TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 94% · 2019 95% · 2020 57% · 2021 86% · 2022 91% · 2023 88% — 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
50% of FIRST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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 TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY draws 95% 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. $122k 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
FIRST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding FIRST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.6M on record.
- Department of Transportation$5.3M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$3.8M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$428k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FIRST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- First Tennessee Development District · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FIRST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY?
- FIRST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY (Tennessee) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,793,523 to it, the largest being CWI WORKS INC ($4,260,065). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $4,793,523 in grants to FIRST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY?
- CWI WORKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,260,065 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY 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 9 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