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LIBERTY BOWL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION CO LIBERTY BOWL VENTURE INC
LIBERTY BOWL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION CO LIBERTY BOWL VENTURE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,075 to it, the largest being DELTA DENTAL OF TENNESSEE INC ($66,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- Smile 180 Foundationshared funders
- Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureauportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $19k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 LIBERTY BOWL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION CO LIBERTY BOWL VENTURE 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
LIBERTY BOWL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION CO LIBERTY BOWL VENTURE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 LIBERTY BOWL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION CO LIBERTY BOWL VENTURE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 79% · 2022 73% · 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
100% of LIBERTY BOWL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION CO LIBERTY BOWL VENTURE INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 222 organizations that share them.
- Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchTN · funds 33 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Smile 180 Foundationshared fundersTN · backs 21 organizations that share your funders
- Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureauportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bob and Susan Wilson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mike Curb Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Turley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deborah D Tipton Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Doy & Margaret McCall Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Humanities Tennesseeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hewson Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphisshared funderslocalTN · backs 15 organizations that share your funders · funds 48 organizations near you
- Slingshot Memphis Incshared funderslocalTN · backs 12 organizations that share your funders · funds 54 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding LIBERTY BOWL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION CO LIBERTY BOWL VENTURE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- Department of Defense$25k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LIBERTY BOWL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION CO LIBERTY BOWL VENTURE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIBERTY BOWL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION CO LIBERTY BOWL VENTURE 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LIBERTY BOWL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION CO LIBERTY BOWL VENTURE INC?
- LIBERTY BOWL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION CO LIBERTY BOWL VENTURE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,075 to it, the largest being DELTA DENTAL OF TENNESSEE INC ($66,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIBERTY BOWL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION CO LIBERTY BOWL VENTURE INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $138,075 in grants to LIBERTY BOWL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION CO LIBERTY BOWL VENTURE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIBERTY BOWL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION CO LIBERTY BOWL VENTURE INC?
- DELTA DENTAL OF TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $66,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIBERTY BOWL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION CO LIBERTY BOWL VENTURE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), and the filings of 4funders 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing