Tennessee · Nonprofit
LEE BRENNEISEN FOUNDATION INC
LEE BRENNEISEN FOUNDATION INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,298 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($50,123). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $320k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $72k
- Net assets
- $521k
What Lee Brenneisen Foundation Inc does
Mission
The lee brenneisen foundation partners with schools and communities in kenya together with usa donors and universities to promote education and social enterprise. The foundation has developed eight eco-friendly learning modules to empower students for a future of critical thinking through activity based learning.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Clean water is the most precious natural resource in east africa. Accelerating climate change makes availability and access difficult. Clean water & health underpins our remaining 7 learning modules as we assist schools and communities, learning life skills and developing social enterprise. In early january 2024 kenya was ravaged by devastating floods. In response, innov8africa continues to intensify our focus on water catchment and storage as volcanic soils contain unhealthy levels of fluoride and soda. We dig water reservoirs. We create rooftop catchment and water purification systems in the now 24 schools we support. In december 2023 we designed a 1.2 kilometer solar water pipeline to provide crop irrigation at ole ntutu arid zone primary. In march 2023 we had to repair and redesign it. We also created two solar purification systems. We added additional 10,000 liter water tanks and guttering systems for our schools and built simple water purification systems. Our educational programs focus on health, water borne diseases and prevention for children and their families. 2024 clean water and heath costs were 30,885. We continued our reforestation programs with each school growing…
$32,038 spent9% of program spendingFamine and food shortages have ravaged much of kenya. Narok county, most of our 12,000+ school children do not get adequate nutrition. In response, our "school farm to school table" program has become our primary focus. In 2024, we began working with university of tennessee at martin on a grant whereby elementary schools in northwest tennessee partner with innov8's kenya schools to improve school nutrition in a sustainable fashion through activity based learning. These programs are designed to benefit school children in usa through university lead research both in developing healthy food crops and scientific analysis of nutritional for school meals. We have built 3 greenhouses, 3 one acre full sun experimental plots and 3@ 60% shade-netting areas. We have added several acres of drip and sprinkler irrigation. More schools have attained total sustainable food security meaning that they grow more than enough food for their students and sell overages to pay for future crop inputs. School representatives attending our seminars develop food security programs and work with their communities on implementation, with the idea that each child can receive nutritious school meals every day. We…
$214,240 spent58% of program spendingIn 2024 innov8 has continued its focus on enhanced computer learning. Innov8 africa continues to be the only builder of computer laboratories for narok county's primary and junior secondary school population of over 700,000 learners. In 2024 we constructed a new 2 classroom building complete with computer laboratory and 50 endless os learning computers: (42,973.00). As few of our students have electricity at home, we continue to provide solar study lamps to assist with homework and have added school solar electricity for a number of classrooms: (36,908.00). Also in 2024, with the assistance of the marlene and spence hays foundation we have supported our arts education program for seven (7) schools, constructing/retrofitting art classrooms, purchasing art supplies, training, conducting art shows as well and arts and crafts contests. We have furthered our after school trainings in sewing, knitting and beading for girls at risk of compromise from abuse, childhood marriage, and fgm. Our direct costs for 2024 are 40,390.00. The hays arts program as proves to be remarkably successful and underpins our mission to support creativity, competency and critical thinking skills.
$120,271 spent33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $366,549.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.1M to $767k (−28%).
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.
93% of LEE BRENNEISEN FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Ernie Williams Jd Aagg
Chairman/dir
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $7k.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LEE BRENNEISEN FOUNDATION 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
LEE BRENNEISEN FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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 LEE BRENNEISEN FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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
100% of LEE BRENNEISEN FOUNDATION INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k 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
LEE BRENNEISEN FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LEE BRENNEISEN FOUNDATION 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEE BRENNEISEN FOUNDATION INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LEE BRENNEISEN FOUNDATION INC?
- LEE BRENNEISEN FOUNDATION INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,298 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($50,123). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEE BRENNEISEN FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $72,298 in grants to LEE BRENNEISEN FOUNDATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEE BRENNEISEN FOUNDATION INC?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $50,123 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEE BRENNEISEN FOUNDATION 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.
Play a game about who funds Lee Brenneisen →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), 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