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SEQUOYAH COMMUNITY SPIRIT FUND

SEQUOYAH COMMUNITY SPIRIT FUND (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,521 to it, the largest being GIVE BACK FOUNDATION ($27,427). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$33k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$28k
Net assets
$107k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Sequoyah Community Spirit Fund does

Mission

Community outreach to include helping needy families with food, clothing, housing, utilities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provided assistance to low income families in various forms such as rent, clothing, food, and personal needs which were brought about by financial hardships such as job loss or disability. Other program expenses provided assistance to families who have a medical hardship which created a financial strain. Example: child in hospital in another city and family staying with the child away from their home during the child's treatment.

    $32,776 spentof which $23,930 as grants
    92% of program spending
  2. Assistance provided to needy families who belong to the soddy daisy headstart program: sponsored a book drive for children for summer reading, organized easter and christmas parties with gifts for children, supplied thanksgiving and christmas dinner for 20 families, supplied christmas gifts to families of headstart children.

    $3,043 spentof which $3,043 as grants
    8% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $35,819.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($112k) Expenses 100 ($131k) Net assets 100 ($124k)2018 Revenue 84 ($94k) Expenses 65 ($85k) Net assets 107 ($133k)2019 Revenue 52 ($58k) Expenses 66 ($87k) Net assets 84 ($104k)2020 Revenue 141 ($158k) Expenses 91 ($119k) Net assets 115 ($142k)2021 Revenue 33 ($37k) Expenses 64 ($83k) Net assets 79 ($98k)2022 Revenue 86 ($96k) Expenses 53 ($69k) Net assets 100 ($124k)2023 Revenue 43 ($48k) Expenses 48 ($63k) Net assets 88 ($110k)2024 Revenue 30 ($33k) Expenses 27 ($36k) Net assets 86 ($107k)
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Revenue (30)Expenses (27)Net assets (86)Peer revenue range

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 $144k to $98k (−32%).

$124k
$134k
$106k
$144k
$98k
$124k
$110k
$107k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

94% of SEQUOYAH COMMUNITY SPIRIT FUND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$19k
’17
$9k
’18
−$29k
’19
$38k
’20
−$46k
’21
$27k
’22
−$15k
’23
−$3k
’24
36
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.

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Listed54444444
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+1
No longer listed·1000001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $26.

Funder
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
2
1
1
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SEQUOYAH COMMUNITY SPIRIT FUND’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

SEQUOYAH COMMUNITY SPIRIT FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 SEQUOYAH COMMUNITY SPIRIT FUND.

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

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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 SEQUOYAH COMMUNITY SPIRIT FUND'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k 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

Against its field

SEQUOYAH COMMUNITY SPIRIT FUND is better cushioned than half of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−8% · below the median
Months of reserve35.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−16% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like SEQUOYAH COMMUNITY SPIRIT FUND

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

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Questions and answers

Who funds SEQUOYAH COMMUNITY SPIRIT FUND?
SEQUOYAH COMMUNITY SPIRIT FUND (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,521 to it, the largest being GIVE BACK FOUNDATION ($27,427). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SEQUOYAH COMMUNITY SPIRIT FUND have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $27,521 in grants to SEQUOYAH COMMUNITY SPIRIT FUND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SEQUOYAH COMMUNITY SPIRIT FUND?
GIVE BACK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $27,427 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SEQUOYAH COMMUNITY SPIRIT FUND 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 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