Tennessee · Nonprofit
ROANE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
ROANE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,058,981 to it, the largest being BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ($332,000). 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
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $34M
What Roane State Community College Foundation does
Mission
To maintain and enhance the quality of life, including economic development, in roane state's service area by developing friends and raising funds for the support of educational, cultural and service goals of roane state community college. The foundation assists the entire college family in promoting excellence for the institution by securing financial support for educational, cultural, and economic development activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide roane state community college students with scholarships for the 2024-2025 academic year.
$531,047 spentof which $531,047 as grants31% of program spendingSupported roane state college with payment to or on behalf of the college in support of campus projects and activities to benefit students, including transfer of in-kind gifts.
$1,165,819 spent69% of program spendingSupported roane state college with payments to or on behalf of the college to provide faculty development and awards.
$3,358 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,700,224.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $23M to $29M (+27%).
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: 2021 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of ROANE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Scott Niermann
Executive Director
Board chair
James Frank Wilson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $49k → $106k.
7 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $549k from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest East Tennessee Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ROANE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of ROANE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE 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.
How concentrated its funding is
ROANE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 ROANE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 100% · 2019 66% · 2020 100% · 2021 75% · 2022 100% · 2023 94% — growing more concentrated.
“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
25% of ROANE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 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 ROANE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE 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. Of the $500k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $559k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
ROANE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ROANE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Roane State Community College · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROANE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
- ROANE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,058,981 to it, the largest being BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ($332,000). 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 ROANE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,058,981 in grants to ROANE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROANE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
- BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $332,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROANE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE 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.
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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 2021–2025), 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