Tennessee · Nonprofit
GREATER THINGS
GREATER THINGS (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,086 to it, the largest being ACHIEVING AMERICA FAMILY FOUNDATION ($18,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $211k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $19k
- Net assets
- $100k
What Greater Things does
Mission
Greater Things is organized exclusively for religious, educational and community building for Christian purposes; to empower & equip women & men in their emotional, physical, and spiritual growth; providing tools, resources & instructional training that equips & enables productive, healthy & biblical lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Greater Things hosted multiple off-site events in 2025 that were open to the community that reached roughly 350 people at various locations. These events included a marriage retreat with roughly (15) couples, a women's fall beach retreat with roughly (25) women in attendance. We hosted a women's spring lake retreat with 15 women, a volunteer dinner with roughly 45 in attendance, and another summer community event near with roughly (75) people in attendance. We also did two staff retreats. All of these events supported our overall mission to strengthen and empower women (and men) and their families with spiritual and emotional training and growth opportunities.
$9,757 spent$12,220 earned by the program69% of program spendingProgramming events were run in the Greater Things building at 6812 Baum Dr that reached roughly (90) people every week. These included three standing weekly meetings that offer small and safe communities to build trust and confidence: Sunday Night, Tuesday Night, and Wednesday Day. Additionally, several one-time larger group gatherings were held, including a women's training event, and holiday gatherings for Palm Sunday, Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas. We also did a worship night and a chili cookoff and invited the local community. All of these events supported our overall mission to strengthen and empower women men and their families with emotional and spiritual training and various opportunities for growth in safe community.
$4,399 spent$3,554 earned by the program31% of program spendingPart of the mission of Greater Things is to elevate women and men in their careers, goals and ambitions. We provide office space and meeting space below fair market value for women-led startup businesses and ministries and also men's businesses. As part of their informal partnership with Greater Things, we provide one on one and group mentorship, various small business and financial training, networking opportunities, as well as exposure for their business and ministry within the Greater Things community as a whole. In 2025 we offered space to (5) different women-led business or ministries and (2) men. Note on expenses: We count all of the expenses for this program in our rent & utilities for our building elsewhere in this 990.
$0 spent$55,704 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,156.
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 $56k to $506k (+812%).
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.
49% of GREATER THINGS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% 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
Emily Delape
Executive Director and Board Member
Board chair
Jana Spicka
Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $163 → $96.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 GREATER THINGS’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
GREATER THINGS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
GREATER THINGS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $386 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
GREATER THINGS receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $19k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GREATER THINGS
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
7% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER THINGS?
- GREATER THINGS (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,086 to it, the largest being ACHIEVING AMERICA FAMILY FOUNDATION ($18,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER THINGS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $19,086 in grants to GREATER THINGS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER THINGS?
- ACHIEVING AMERICA FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $18,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER THINGS 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 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