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PARSONS-DECATUR COUNTY HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION

PARSONS-DECATUR COUNTY HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $126,720 to it, the largest being WEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ($126,720). 1 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 FY2026
$889k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$127k
Net assets
$10M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Parsons-Decatur County Higher Education Foundation does

Mission

To promote the education of the residents of the city of parsons and decatur county, tennessee and surrounding area by providing educational facilities and scholarships

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. To pay for and maintain the educational facilities located in parsons, tn

    $368,798 spentof which $125,295 as grants$433,671 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $368,798.

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 ($525k) Expenses 100 ($311k) Net assets 100 ($7.1M)2018 Revenue 107 ($563k) Expenses 119 ($370k) Net assets 103 ($7.3M)2019 Revenue 153 ($805k) Expenses 115 ($358k) Net assets 109 ($7.7M)2020 Revenue 134 ($701k) Expenses 121 ($376k) Net assets 114 ($8.0M)2021 Revenue 191 ($1.0M) Expenses 286 ($888k) Net assets 115 ($8.2M)2022 Revenue 127 ($665k) Expenses 121 ($377k) Net assets 118 ($8.4M)2023 Revenue 133 ($695k) Expenses 129 ($401k) Net assets 122 ($8.6M)2024 Revenue 161 ($843k) Expenses 139 ($432k) Net assets 128 ($9.1M)2025 Revenue 169 ($889k) Expenses 137 ($425k) Net assets 134 ($9.5M)2026 Revenue 169 ($889k) Expenses 119 ($369k) Net assets 142 ($10M)
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Revenue (169)Expenses (119)Net assets (142)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 2025 to 2026, from $9.5M to $10M (+5%).

$7.2M
$7.4M
$7.7M
$8.0M
$8.2M
$8.4M
$8.6M
$9.1M
$9.5M
$10M
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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
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

24% of PARSONS-DECATUR COUNTY HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 25,057 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

$214k
’17
$193k
’18
$447k
’19
$325k
’20
$117k
’21
$287k
’22
$294k
’23
$411k
’24
$463k
’25
$520k
’26
201
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.

Board chair

Jon Ayers

Chairman & director

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+0+1+1+0+0+0+0+0
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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $23k → $40k.

Funder
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'20
'21
total
funders
1
1
1
1

1 of 1 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 PARSONS-DECATUR COUNTY HIGHER EDUCATION 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.

Where its funders are

100% of PARSONS-DECATUR COUNTY HIGHER EDUCATION 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $127k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PARSONS-DECATUR COUNTY HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,238 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin59% · top quartile
Months of reserve200.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,238 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

Government funding PARSONS-DECATUR COUNTY HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $718k on record.

Federal$718k
grants $718kcontracts $0
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25
Top agencies
  • Department of Transportation$668k
  • Department of Agriculture$50k

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 PARSONS-DECATUR COUNTY HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION

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

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

60%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds PARSONS-DECATUR COUNTY HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
PARSONS-DECATUR COUNTY HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $126,720 to it, the largest being WEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ($126,720). 1 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 PARSONS-DECATUR COUNTY HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $126,720 in grants to PARSONS-DECATUR COUNTY HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PARSONS-DECATUR COUNTY HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
WEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $126,720 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PARSONS-DECATUR COUNTY HIGHER EDUCATION 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing