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PEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,193,290 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($7,758,289). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$7.9M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$8.2M
Net assets
$6.5M
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Perea Elementary School does

Mission

Perea Elementary School and perea preschool will prepare all students academically, socially, and emotionally for success by creating and maintaining a classroom and school environment that is student-centered, with high academic expectations and where all students feel welcomed, appreciated, and valued.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Program services consist of providing educational curriculum and instruction to elementary students in an effort to prepare them academically, socially, and emotionally for success.

    $5,023,150 spent$18,553 earned by the program
    79% of program spending
  2. Program services consist of providing educational curriculum and instruction to preschool students in an effort to prepare them academically, socially, and emotionally for success in elementary school and beyond.

    $1,344,566 spent$68,073 earned by the program
    21% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,367,716.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($776k) Expenses 100 ($176k) Net assets 100 ($600k)2020 Revenue 334 ($2.6M) Expenses 1400 ($2.5M) Net assets 243 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 464 ($3.6M) Expenses 1643 ($2.9M) Net assets 363 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 615 ($4.8M) Expenses 2174 ($3.8M) Net assets 522 ($3.1M)2023 Revenue 1014 ($7.9M) Expenses 3740 ($6.6M) Net assets 946 ($5.7M)2024 Revenue 1106 ($8.6M) Expenses 4315 ($7.6M) Net assets 1113 ($6.7M)2025 Revenue 1017 ($7.9M) Expenses 4570 ($8.0M) Net assets 1091 ($6.5M)
2018202020212022202320242025
Revenue (1017)Expenses (4570)Net assets (1091)

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 $2.5M to $4.4M (+78%).

$613k
$1.7M
$2.5M
$4.4M
$6.2M
$7.7M
$7.5M
2018202020212022202320242025
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.

2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 65% · 2021 79% · 2022 90% · 2023 99% · 2024 76% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$600k
’18
$136k
’20
$718k
’21
$956k
’22
$1.3M
’23
$1.0M
’24
−$132k
’25
4.4
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.

Chief executive

Robert Davis Iii

Executive director

Board chair

Jim Boyd

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2018202020212022202320242025
Listed77712141413
Joined··+1+7+4+2+3
No longer listed··12224
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $481k → $1.7M.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 PEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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

PEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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

99% 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 PEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 88% — 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.

Where its funders are

95% of PEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL'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 $428k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states.

AR
TN
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like PEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • The Perea Preschool Inc · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds PEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,193,290 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($7,758,289). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $8,193,290 in grants to PEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,758,289 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 6 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