Tennessee · Nonprofit
SHIELD INC
SHIELD INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being FLORA BELLE MOSS AND BESSIE ABIGAIL MOSS FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $340k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $122k
What Shield Inc does
Mission
Building stable lives for persons with emotional and physical challenges in the mississippi delta
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
Provide permanent housing for chronically homeless, mentally ill, and dual diagnosed individuals and veterans. We also provide outreach to homeless individuals on the street and case management for homeless individuals in our permanent housing program. There are units set aside for the very low income individuals and families with/or without disabilities. All individuals are linked to community resources such as mental health service, counseling, substance abuse treatment and mainstream resources such as food stamps, ssi, social security, tenncare, employment, utility assistance, and many more. Since year 2000, shield, inc. Has served over 10,000 men, women and children.
$332,916 spentof which $13,364 as grants$47,245 earned by the program100% of program spendingProvided case management for homeless families and homeless individuals.
The 2 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $332,916.
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.
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 $575k to $668k (+16%).
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 64% · 2018 74% · 2019 80% · 2020 84% · 2021 72% · 2022 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
Valerie Bobo
Executive director
Board chair
Dorris Conner
Chairman
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $500.
From the IRS filings of SHIELD INC’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 SHIELD INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Government funding SHIELD INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $889k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$889k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SHIELD INC
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHIELD INC: 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 SHIELD INC?
- SHIELD INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being FLORA BELLE MOSS AND BESSIE ABIGAIL MOSS FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHIELD INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to SHIELD INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHIELD INC?
- FLORA BELLE MOSS AND BESSIE ABIGAIL MOSS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHIELD INC 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), 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