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JEFFERSON COUNTY EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

JEFFERSON COUNTY EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,005 to it, the largest being EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION ($90,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$86k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$100k
Net assets
$89k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 47%
01What it does

What Jefferson County Education and Community Foundation does

Mission

Advancement of literacy, education and community development and well being throughout jefferson county, tennessee.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Christmas in jefferson county program helps provide food and toys to 565 families that would not otherwise be able to provide for themselves. Senior nutrition food boxes are also provided.

    $59,866 spent
    73% of program spending
  2. Imagination library provides books to children from birth to five years of age.

    $21,529 spent
    26% of program spending
  3. Project let's chat

    $600 spent
    1% of program spending
  4. Nelson merry school expenses - funds raised for sign.

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $81,995.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($47k) Expenses 100 ($37k) Net assets 100 ($64k)2018 Revenue 105 ($49k) Expenses 108 ($40k) Net assets 114 ($73k)2019 Revenue 110 ($51k) Expenses 114 ($42k) Net assets 128 ($82k)2020 Revenue 128 ($60k) Expenses 156 ($57k) Net assets 132 ($84k)2021 Revenue 200 ($93k) Expenses 214 ($79k) Net assets 154 ($99k)2022 Revenue 119 ($56k) Expenses 178 ($66k) Net assets 139 ($89k)2023 Revenue 127 ($59k) Expenses 170 ($63k) Net assets 133 ($85k)2024 Revenue 184 ($86k) Expenses 223 ($82k) Net assets 139 ($89k)
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Revenue (184)Expenses (223)Net assets (139)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $84k to $99k (+17%).

$64k
$73k
$82k
$84k
$99k
$89k
$85k
$90k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

89% of JEFFERSON COUNTY EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’17
$9k
’18
$9k
’19
$2k
’20
$14k
’21
−$10k
’22
−$4k
’23
$4k
’24

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Robert Key

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $12k → $14k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
2
1
2
1
1
1

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 JEFFERSON COUNTY EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’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

JEFFERSON COUNTY EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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

100% 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 JEFFERSON COUNTY EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

90%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 57% · 2019 100% · 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

90% of JEFFERSON COUNTY EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Tennessee funders.

TN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

JEFFERSON COUNTY EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like JEFFERSON COUNTY EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

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05Profile & governance

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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Questions and answers

Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
JEFFERSON COUNTY EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,005 to it, the largest being EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION ($90,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does JEFFERSON COUNTY EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $100,005 in grants to JEFFERSON COUNTY EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JEFFERSON COUNTY EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JEFFERSON COUNTY EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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 3 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