Tennessee · Nonprofit
SCARRITT-BENNETT CENTER
SCARRITT-BENNETT CENTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,538 to it, the largest being TR SCARRITT-BENNETT CTR UW ($42,389). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $64k
- Net assets
- $14M
What Scarritt-Bennett Center does
Mission
The Scarritt-Bennett Center is a place of hospitality, education for christian ministries of justice and equality, reconciliation and renewal, cooperation and interaction within the ecumenical and global context. Rooted in mission, the center has a strong commitment to the eradication of racism, empowerment of women, education of laity, and spiritual formation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The center is a conference, retreat and education center related to the united methodist church. The center provides conference and meeting space for day and multi-day meetings. The center also offers its own program of education and ministry.
$3,335,506 spent$1,788,546 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,335,506.
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 2021 to 2022, from $16M to $18M (+12%).
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: 2020 6% · 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of SCARRITT-BENNETT CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Sally Vonner
General secretary/CEO
Board chair
Andrea Hatcher
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $20k → $7k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SCARRITT-BENNETT CENTER’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
SCARRITT-BENNETT CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 93% — 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
SCARRITT-BENNETT CENTER draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $149 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
SCARRITT-BENNETT CENTER receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $64k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SCARRITT-BENNETT CENTER
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
36%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Sbc Education Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Uwfaith · exempt
- Gen Council on Finance & Administration · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCARRITT-BENNETT CENTER: 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 SCARRITT-BENNETT CENTER?
- SCARRITT-BENNETT CENTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,538 to it, the largest being TR SCARRITT-BENNETT CTR UW ($42,389). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCARRITT-BENNETT CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $63,538 in grants to SCARRITT-BENNETT CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCARRITT-BENNETT CENTER?
- TR SCARRITT-BENNETT CTR UW is the largest funder on record, with $42,389 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCARRITT-BENNETT CENTER 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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