Tennessee · Nonprofit
GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM
GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,003,000 to it, the largest being BIRDSONG CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($255,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $989k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $-782644
What Global Action Platform does
Mission
Global Action Platform, formerly cumberland center, is a nonprofit university-business alliance advancing scalable, sustainable solutions for abundant food, health and prosperity. The organization seeks to transform innovation into prosperity through the growth of regional innovation hubs by: - advancing a social leadership movement; - investing in innovation and new businesses; - deploying on-line work groups, partnerships, and global communications to accelerate action; and - focusing on the intersection of food, health and prosperity
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Specific program initiatives include: convene: the annual global action summit, forums at the world bank, national press club and meridian international center; challenge: multi-million dollar impact investments and awards; connect: online services, a global summit fellows program for young leaders; communicate: publications and annual reports, content sharing with the g8, g20, apec, and bric summits, and a global corporate award program for shared value.the Global Action Platform (gap) is an open, nonpartisan collaborative platform to convene leaders, make investments, align collaborations, and share ideas and strategies through global communications to create sustainable abundance in food, health, and prosperity. The platform aims to identify and invest in sustainable, scalable innovations that offer the promise of transformative impact in the intersection of food, health, and prosperity. With input from an international steering committee and national expert advisors, gap was designed in 2013 around four program activities: convene, challenge, connect, and communicate. These integrated programs facilitate action through dynamic leadership events, investments, ongoing working…
$482,015 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $482,015.
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 2017 to 2018, from $34k to $339k (+888%).
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: 2019 1% · 2021 1% · 2024 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Dr Scott T Massey
Chairman & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $161k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM’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
GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
54% 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 GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 95% · 2019 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 49% · 2022 48% · 2023 62% — 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.
Where its funders are
GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $189k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM: 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 GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM?
- GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,003,000 to it, the largest being BIRDSONG CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($255,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,003,000 in grants to GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM?
- BIRDSONG CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $255,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM 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 7 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