Tennessee · Nonprofit
Global Education Center
Global Education Center (Tennessee) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $595,080 to it, the largest being NISSAN FOUNDATION ($200,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $459k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $595k
- Net assets
- $179k
What Global Education Center does
Mission
To use the arts of diverse cultures to highlight our commonalities and promote cross-cultural understanding and respect through interactive arts programming for schools and the community and professional development for prek-12 educators and artists from diverse cultures with an overall goal of dispelling myths dismantling stereotypes alleviating fears and creating healthier more inclusive communities
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Passport to Understanding school outreach typically serves approximately 35,000 students in over 100 settings teaching about the different cultural ethnic and religious groups in our community through hands-on cultural museum presentations; drum and dance workshops residencies; school assembly performances; in-school and out-of-school programming; home-school programming; programming in the youth detention center; a concert series for schools; and multicultural family nights. The overall goal of our school outreach is to use the arts of diverse cultures to help schools create safe nurturing and welcoming environments for all students and families by providing resources that reflect the diversity of their student populations and aid in dispelling myths dismantling stereotypes and alleviating fears by focusing on the commonalities we all share.
$198,120 spent$44,825 earned by the program44% of program spendingCommunity outreach programs share the arts of diverse cultures through ongoing classes and workshops for children and adults; cultural presentations; artists residencies; community performances; world music and dance concert series; literary arts series; documentary film series; summer multicultural arts camp for children and youth; after-school and weekend programming for under-served populations including seniors incarcerated youth health-challenged women and teens homeless individuals and families immigrant and refugee families and teens deemed by society to be at-risk. We typically serve around 40,000 people each year. The overall goal of Global Education Center programming is to engage members of our community in art forms from different cultures that reflect the diversity of our community that confront biases dismantle stereotypes dispel myths and alleviate fears while bringing high quality arts to members of the community who are traditionally under-served. This programming helps to create a healthier more inclusive community for all of our citizens.
$216,505 spent$94,764 earned by the program48% of program spendingGlobal Education Center offers professional development and support for preK-12 educators and for culturally diverse artists through workshops master classes and residencies with visiting artists; multicultural arts integration institutes for teachers and school administrators; professional training workshops for community artists; consultation and mentoring of preK-12 teachers and emerging artists; accessible space for classes rehearsals performances and exhibits; performance and teaching opportunities for artists; and assistance in preparing curriculum guides and school programs serving approximately 300 teachers and 100 artists each year. The overall goal is to provide high quality training in multicultural arts integration for teachers and to bring some of the most talented artists of the world to train local artists and help them increase their repertoires and professionalism. Most of these services are offered free of charge.
$40,285 spent$1,640 earned by the program9% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $454,910.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $324k to $301k (−7%).
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: 2021 64% · 2022 46% · 2023 42% · 2024 40% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of Global Education Center’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. 1 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.
Chief executive
Ellen S Gilbert
Executive Director
Board chair
Monica Cooley
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $55k → $56k.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Education Center’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 Education Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 Education Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 39% · 2019 59% · 2020 35% · 2021 59% · 2022 35% · 2023 45% — 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of Global Education Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
92% of Global Education Center's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $104k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Global Education Center 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 Global Education Center
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Global Education Center: 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 Education Center?
- Global Education Center (Tennessee) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $595,080 to it, the largest being NISSAN FOUNDATION ($200,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Global Education Center have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $595,080 in grants to Global Education Center, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Global Education Center?
- NISSAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Global Education Center 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 18 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