Tennessee · Nonprofit
GENTRYS EDUCATION CENTER AT THE STORE FRONT INC
GENTRYS EDUCATION CENTER AT THE STORE FRONT INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,162,243 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($813,668). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $764k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $109k
What Gentrys Education Center at the Store Front Inc does
Mission
We assist and prepare young people in our community for school, work and life. We provide research-based, individualized academic support with state-certified teachers, mentoring and positive character development, while encouraging family engagement. Our participants consistently make over a year's worth of growth in reading and math each year according to research based assessments, and exhibit positive changes in behavior.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Programs
After-school tutoring and enrichment were offered at johnson elementary school. We served approximately 116 children in grades k through 4th. After-school tutors focused on improving reading and math performance through learning opportunities that reinforced skills from the school day. Enrichment activities provided another path to learning. They include chorus, karate, book club, and drama. Children worked with tutors, learning new skills and connecting with their peers and the community through service-learning projects. Gentrys addressed social-emotional development through responsive services, including counseling, crisis intervention, family support.
$292,851 spent43% of program spendingGetnrys generational impact program, comprised of generations forward and the connected generation, provided multigenerational edcuational, leadership, anf family support services for children, youth, and caregivers. During the year, gentrys hosted 22 workshops, enrichment activities, mentoring opportunities, and community engagement events serving families and youth participating in the organizations programs. Servies included academic enrichment, life-skills training, leadership development, service-learning, family engagement activities, and conncections to community resources designed to strengthen educational achievement, social-emotional well-being, and long-term family stability.
$292,850 spent43% of program spendingAfter-school tutoring and enrichment were offered at freedom intermediate school. We serviced approximately 44 children in grades 5 and 6. After-school tutors focused on improving reading and math performance through learning opportunities that reinforced skills from the school day. Enrichment activities provided another path to learning. They include chorus, karate, book club, stem, podcasting, and drama. Children worked with tutors, learning new skills and connecting with their peers and community through service-learning projects. Gentrys addressed social-emotional development through responsive services, including counseling, crisis intervention, and family support.
$95,347 spent14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $681,048.
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 $262k to $76k (−71%).
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 46% · 2018 55% · 2019 68% · 2020 69% · 2021 72% · 2022 72% · 2023 78% · 2024 65% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of GENTRYS EDUCATION CENTER AT THE STORE FRONT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Evelyn Hickerson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $32k → $429k.
2 of 13 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.
From the IRS filings of GENTRYS EDUCATION CENTER AT THE STORE FRONT 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
GENTRYS EDUCATION CENTER AT THE STORE FRONT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 GENTRYS EDUCATION CENTER AT THE STORE FRONT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 51% · 2019 93% · 2020 73% · 2021 77% · 2022 83% · 2023 82% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of GENTRYS EDUCATION CENTER AT THE STORE FRONT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
91% of GENTRYS EDUCATION CENTER AT THE STORE FRONT INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k 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
GENTRYS EDUCATION CENTER AT THE STORE FRONT INC has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GENTRYS EDUCATION CENTER AT THE STORE FRONT 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GENTRYS EDUCATION CENTER AT THE STORE FRONT INC?
- GENTRYS EDUCATION CENTER AT THE STORE FRONT INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,162,243 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($813,668). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GENTRYS EDUCATION CENTER AT THE STORE FRONT INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,162,243 in grants to GENTRYS EDUCATION CENTER AT THE STORE FRONT INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GENTRYS EDUCATION CENTER AT THE STORE FRONT INC?
- UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $813,668 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GENTRYS EDUCATION CENTER AT THE STORE FRONT 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 13 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