Tennessee · Nonprofit
FORWARD SUMNER ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP
FORWARD SUMNER ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being JC GARRETT III FAMILY FOUNDATION ($17,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $800k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $360k
What Forward Sumner Economic Partnership does
Mission
The organization's purpose is to unite business, community and government to promote and foster the economic development and prosperity of sumner county for the benefit of all citizens.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization's purpose is to unite business, community and government to promote and foster the economic development and prosperity of sumner county for the benefit of all citizens.
$528,206 spent100% of program spendingN/a
N/a
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $528,206.
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 $242k to $367k (+52%).
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 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 9% · 2024 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FORWARD SUMNER ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% 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.
Chief executive
Chris Taylor
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $3k.
From the IRS filings of FORWARD SUMNER ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP’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.
Where its funders are
100% of FORWARD SUMNER ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP'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.
Against its field
FORWARD SUMNER ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FORWARD SUMNER ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FORWARD SUMNER ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP: 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 FORWARD SUMNER ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP?
- FORWARD SUMNER ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being JC GARRETT III FAMILY FOUNDATION ($17,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FORWARD SUMNER ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $17,500 in grants to FORWARD SUMNER ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORWARD SUMNER ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP?
- JC GARRETT III FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $17,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORWARD SUMNER ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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