Tennessee · Nonprofit
RHEA ECONOMIC AND TOURISM COUNCIL
RHEA ECONOMIC AND TOURISM COUNCIL (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being Lyndhurst Foundation Inc ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $268k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $426k
What Rhea Economic and Tourism Council does
Mission
To help rhea county businesses expand and become more competitive, to attract new investment from the market-leading companies, and to develop a distinct brand that raises awareness of rhea county's business friendly environment
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Economic development expense work to retain existing industry, assist them with expansions, educating the work force and advocate for them with local and state officials. Strive to attract new industry and jobs to the area through collaboration with state and local officials. As these opportunities develop they provide income, jobs and tax revenues for the city and county which in turn provides funds to Rhea Economic and Tourism Council for daily operations and on going economic development. Economic and industry development tourism and marketing education and industrial training
$256,183 spentof which $8,000 as grants$286,336 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $256,183.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $680k to $547k (−20%).
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: 2017 41% · 2018 46% · 2019 78% · 2020 89% · 2021 57% · 2022 48% · 2023 51% · 2024 46% · 2025 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of RHEA ECONOMIC AND TOURISM COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Stephania Motes
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of RHEA ECONOMIC AND TOURISM COUNCIL’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 RHEA ECONOMIC AND TOURISM COUNCIL's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
RHEA ECONOMIC AND TOURISM COUNCIL's revenue fell 37% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RHEA ECONOMIC AND TOURISM COUNCIL
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
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 RHEA ECONOMIC AND TOURISM COUNCIL: 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 RHEA ECONOMIC AND TOURISM COUNCIL?
- RHEA ECONOMIC AND TOURISM COUNCIL (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being Lyndhurst Foundation Inc ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RHEA ECONOMIC AND TOURISM COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to RHEA ECONOMIC AND TOURISM COUNCIL.
- Who is the largest funder of RHEA ECONOMIC AND TOURISM COUNCIL?
- Lyndhurst Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RHEA ECONOMIC AND TOURISM COUNCIL 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 2017–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing