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LEE ROBERSON FOUNDATION

LEE ROBERSON FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$317k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$288k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Lee Roberson Foundation does

Mission

The purpose of the Lee Roberson Foundation is to provide post secondary tuition scholarships to christian men and women who have exemplified outstanding qualities of character, leadership and scholarship.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Global gospel initiative - mission projects/trips to give the gospel

    $308,137 spentof which $97,719 as grants
    84% of program spending
  2. Whitestone ministries - mission outreach to encourage and train leaders to give the gospel

    $59,458 spent
    16% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $367,595.

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 ($195k) Expenses 100 ($254k) Net assets 100 ($57k)2018 Revenue 68 ($132k) Expenses 68 ($174k) Net assets 61 ($35k)2019 Revenue 92 ($179k) Expenses 67 ($170k) Net assets 78 ($44k)2020 Revenue 99 ($193k) Expenses 69 ($175k) Net assets 108 ($61k)2021 Revenue 145 ($283k) Expenses 72 ($182k) Net assets 286 ($162k)2022 Revenue 119 ($232k) Expenses 100 ($254k) Net assets 248 ($140k)2023 Revenue 163 ($319k) Expenses 149 ($378k) Net assets 144 ($81k)2024 Revenue 162 ($317k) Expenses 44 ($111k) Net assets 509 ($288k)
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Revenue (162)Expenses (44)Net assets (509)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 2023 to 2024, from $81k to $288k (+254%).

$57k
$35k
$44k
$61k
$162k
$140k
$81k
$288k
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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

100% of LEE ROBERSON FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$59k
’17
−$42k
’18
$9k
’19
$17k
’20
$101k
’21
−$21k
’22
−$59k
’23
$206k
’24
29
months of
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.

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03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

Against its field

LEE ROBERSON FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin65% · top quartile
Months of reserve29.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

64%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Crown College · exempt

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds LEE ROBERSON FOUNDATION?
LEE ROBERSON FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LEE ROBERSON FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to LEE ROBERSON FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of LEE ROBERSON FOUNDATION?
Servant Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEE ROBERSON 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.

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 1 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