Tennessee · Nonprofit
ORGANIZE TENNESSEE
ORGANIZE TENNESSEE (Tennessee) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $628,812 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ($130,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $206k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $629k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Organize Tennessee does
Mission
Voter protection and education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Organize Tennessee has created a judicial independence website that receives leads through digital ads and billboards that move people to take action in our movement. With additional funding, Organize Tennessee can continue displaying our billboard which will lead readers and viewers to learn more about the importance of judicial independence. This will provide up to 27,646 impressions weekly and allow us to outreach for an additional 10 months. We will also utilize our website contractors to maintain our website, welcome series, and educational ads to keep them current and as a rapid response tool for the upcoming legislative session.
$137,760 spent100% of program spendingOrganize Tennessee will be producing a digital ad and a physical billboard around the importance of justice not politics. Both advertisements will link to our website, with a page directly prioritizing education on judicial independence. Our digital advertisement will target tennessee statewide, and our billboard will target sumner county, one of Organize Tennessees target counties, where all out of state suits are now filed.
3,000 to Organize Tennessee (automation): to hire a freelance targeted email specialist to create automation series to prospective volunteers and post training attendees. By hiring a freelance marketing specialist, Organize Tennessee will be able to leverage everyaction to track volunteers, create automatic followups and reminders, and work to transition and retain our poll observers. Everyaction, will allow us to set up systems focused on retaining training attendees and automating outreach to transition them to in person poll observation volunteers. Facebook ads (6,000) instagram ads (3,000). By running digital ads on social media, we can optimize our audience and increase volunteer recruitment into our poll observer training sessions.
A)voter protection and education b) Organize Tennessee (ot) is dedicated to safeguarding the fundamental right to vote for all eligible tennesseans. As a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, we tirelessly advocate for voting rights protections and work towards creating safe, secure, and accessible elections. Through coalition building, legal support, and grassroots organizing, ot empowers disenfranchised communities, striving to eliminate barriers that hinder full participation in our democracy. Vote protection training at Organize Tennessee, we recognize that a strong democracy hinges on the ability of every citizen to cast their ballot without obstruction. Our vote protection training program plays a pivotal role in ensuring that tennessee's elections remain free, fair, and transparent. By training and mobilizing volunteer poll observers statewide, we establish a robust network dedicated to safeguarding the integrity of our electoral process. In 2023, our efforts resulted in 2,700 individuals joining us in this critical mission. Of these, approximately 1,000 tennesseans completed essential training or took direct action to protect our democratic rights. Election protection ep…
$183 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $137,943.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $112k to $9k (−92%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 16% · 2025 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ORGANIZE TENNESSEE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $30k → $99k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 ORGANIZE TENNESSEE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 funders by total. 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
ORGANIZE TENNESSEE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
94% 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 ORGANIZE TENNESSEE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 40% · 2022 27% · 2023 54% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
67% of ORGANIZE TENNESSEE's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
53% of ORGANIZE TENNESSEE'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 $298k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $331k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
ORGANIZE TENNESSEE has grown faster than half of the 904 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ORGANIZE TENNESSEE
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ORGANIZE TENNESSEE: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ORGANIZE TENNESSEE?
- ORGANIZE TENNESSEE (Tennessee) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $628,812 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ($130,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ORGANIZE TENNESSEE have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $628,812 in grants to ORGANIZE TENNESSEE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORGANIZE TENNESSEE?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORGANIZE TENNESSEE 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 15 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