Tennessee · Nonprofit
RAISING THE BAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
RAISING THE BAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $178,478 to it, the largest being MEMPHIS EQUITY THROUGH ARTS INC ($148,478). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $90k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $178k
- Net assets
- $5k
What Raising the Bar Community Development does
Mission
Empower young black boys to make better life decisions so they can experience the better life and become great citizens to society.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Sticks and grooves:drum and beat production is a comprehensive music enrichment program designed to teach drum and percussion skills to youth. The program offers instruction ranging from fundamental techniques to advanced mastery, engaging approximately 200 participants. Its goal is the inspire and empower young people through high quality hands on musical education.
$15,000 spent21% of program spendingSummer production camp is a dynamic music program focused on songwriting, recording, beat making and music creation. The camp provides youth with hands on experience in all aspects of music production, fostering creativity, collaboraiton and artistic growth.
$25,000 spent35% of program spending7 vs 7 football league is a traveling youth program that participates in competitive football tournaments and structured training sessions. The league emphasizes discipline, teamwork and character development, providing athletes with opportunities to grow both on and off the field.
$31,000 spentof which $8,000 as grants44% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $71,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $14k to $6k (−58%).
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.
100% of RAISING THE BAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT’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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $78k → $40k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 RAISING THE BAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT’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
RAISING THE BAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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
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 RAISING THE BAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 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 RAISING THE BAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k 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.
Against its field
RAISING THE BAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT has grown faster than half of the 4,682 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,682 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like RAISING THE BAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RAISING THE BAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: 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 RAISING THE BAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT?
- RAISING THE BAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $178,478 to it, the largest being MEMPHIS EQUITY THROUGH ARTS INC ($148,478). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RAISING THE BAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $178,478 in grants to RAISING THE BAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RAISING THE BAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT?
- MEMPHIS EQUITY THROUGH ARTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $148,478 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAISING THE BAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 2 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