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.
- Revenue FY2023
- $16k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $450k
- Net assets
- $13k
What Foundation for Empowering All Tennesseans does
Mission
The Foundation for Empowering All Tennesseans is a non-profit, non-partisan organization founded to work collaboratively with k-12 public education stakeholders and partners throughout tennessee to encourage academic success and growth of tennessee's students. Our work focuses on building awareness and support for the education reform policies improving student achievement in the state of tennessee.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Conducted research and messaging analysis around college and career readiness to better inform engagement with policymakers and families on the value of a postsecondary education.
$16,584 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $16,584.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $48k to $4k (−92%).
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
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.
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.
Against its field
FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERING ALL TENNESSEANS's revenue fell 94% between 2019 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,386 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR EMPOWERING ALL TENNESSEANS
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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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.
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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.
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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 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