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SOLO PARENT

SOLO PARENT (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,378,911 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($1,645,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.6M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$2.4M
Net assets
$730k
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 56%
01What it does

What Solo Parent does

Mission

Solo Parent empowers single parents by unlocking their emotional, spiritual, and physical potential. Through our tailored programs and nurturing community, we address and embrace their unique needs and challenges, transforming adversity into strength - guiding families and their children on a path toward healing and sustained success.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.

In 2024, we introduced Solo Parent military edition, which includes Solo Parent training, Solo Parent nation, and Solo Parent essentials. We also secured a new state-funded program channel via florida's 2024 appropriation to provide Solo Parent resources to first reponders, law enforcement, veterans, etc.

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).

  1. Solo Parent equips single parents through free, peer-led support groups offered seven days a week; weekly long-form and daily devotional podcasts; and a growing digital/app community. In 2024 we released 52 weekly episodes (600,000+ downloads) and a daily devotional surpassing 70,000; our app's real-time chat connected 7,000 parents; and we surpassed 225,000 families reached. We also trained 90 army chaplains serving 38,000 members/families, launched groups inside the pentagon serving 24,000 personnel, secured florida funding to extend free resources to first responders, law enforcement, and veterans, and launched the Solo Parent academy while beginning a proprietary platform to unify resources.in 2024, we introduced Solo Parent military edition, which includes Solo Parent training, Solo Parent nation, and Solo Parent essentials. We also secured a new state-funded program channel via florida's 2024 appropriation to provide Solo Parent resources to first reponders, law enforcement, veterans, etc.

    $1,028,402 spentof which $2,530 as grants$84,048 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,028,402.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($151k) Expenses 100 ($151k) Net assets 100 ($25k)2019 Revenue 112 ($169k) Expenses 96 ($145k) Net assets 197 ($49k)2020 Revenue 97 ($146k) Expenses 88 ($133k) Net assets 248 ($62k)2021 Revenue 235 ($354k) Expenses 137 ($207k) Net assets 837 ($209k)2022 Revenue 166 ($250k) Expenses 195 ($294k) Net assets 659 ($165k)2023 Revenue 916 ($1.4M) Expenses 509 ($769k) Net assets 3099 ($773k)2024 Revenue 1080 ($1.6M) Expenses 1088 ($1.6M) Net assets 2923 ($730k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (1080)Expenses (1088)Net assets (2923)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $165k to $784k (+377%).

$25k
$69k
$62k
$209k
$165k
$784k
$813k
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$583
’18
$24k
’19
$13k
’20
$147k
’21
−$44k
’22
$611k
’23
−$18k
’24
5.1
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.

Chief executive

Robert Beeson

Board of directors/CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2021202220232024
Listed3446
Joined·+1+0+2
No longer listed·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $22k → $775k.

7 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 SOLO PARENT’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

SOLO PARENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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 SOLO PARENT.

69%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 55% · 2020 51% · 2021 100% · 2022 71% · 2023 99% — 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

50% of SOLO PARENT's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

99% of SOLO PARENT'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 $23k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from Tennessee funders.

NY
TN
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’22
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

Organizations like SOLO PARENT

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 18%Fundraising 20%

Governance

4
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

54%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

TN
FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOLO PARENT: 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 SOLO PARENT?
SOLO PARENT (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,378,911 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($1,645,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SOLO PARENT have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,378,911 in grants to SOLO PARENT, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOLO PARENT?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $1,645,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOLO PARENT 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 11 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