Tennessee · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERING ALL TENNESSEANS
FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERING ALL TENNESSEANS (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $449,800 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($424,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERING ALL TENNESSEANS's revenue fell 94% between 2019 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,380 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Educationshared fundersportfolio match
- Nashville Public Education Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- American Federation for Children Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
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.
0% of FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERING ALL TENNESSEANS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $275k → $25k.
From the IRS filings of FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERING ALL TENNESSEANS’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
FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERING ALL TENNESSEANS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 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
FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERING ALL TENNESSEANS draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states in all.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Educationshared fundersportfolio matchTN · backs 16 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Nashville Public Education Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchTN · backs 10 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- American Federation for Children Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Federation for Children Growth Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Yes Every Kid Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tennessee Technology Development Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Civic Tnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Action Tnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National School Choice Awareness Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Investor Protection Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joe C Davis Foundationshared funderslocalTN · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · funds 139 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERING ALL TENNESSEANS
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
100%
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 FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERING ALL TENNESSEANS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERING ALL TENNESSEANS?
- FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERING ALL TENNESSEANS (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $449,800 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($424,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERING ALL TENNESSEANS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $449,800 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERING ALL TENNESSEANS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERING ALL TENNESSEANS?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $424,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERING ALL TENNESSEANS 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing