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Southwest Tennessee Community College Foundation

Southwest Tennessee Community College Foundation (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,441,612 to it, the largest being WOMEN'S FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER MEMPHIS ($723,950). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.4M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$6.9M
7/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 58%
01What it does

What Southwest Tennessee Community College Foundation does

Mission

Southwest Tennessee Community College Foundation is a not-for profit organization established to enhance the mission of southwest tennessee community college through financial support of programs and facilities for broader educational opportunities for the college's students, faculty and staff.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Funds granted to southwest tn community college to award scholarships to students enrolled in various programs at the college. Financial support, including faculty awards, instructional supplies, materials, space rental and meals, provided to southwest tn community college to assist the educational advancement and training of students enrolled in the college.

    $718,498 spentof which $677,499 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $718,498.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($413k) Expenses 100 ($338k) Net assets 100 ($7.5M)2020 Revenue 389 ($1.6M) Expenses 965 ($3.3M) Net assets 81 ($6.1M)2021 Revenue 119 ($492k) Expenses 418 ($1.4M) Net assets 82 ($6.2M)2022 Revenue 148 ($612k) Expenses 92 ($310k) Net assets 71 ($5.4M)2023 Revenue 154 ($636k) Expenses 107 ($362k) Net assets 80 ($6.0M)2024 Revenue 308 ($1.3M) Expenses 312 ($1.1M) Net assets 79 ($6.0M)2025 Revenue 338 ($1.4M) Expenses 213 ($718k) Net assets 92 ($6.9M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (338)Expenses (213)Net assets (92)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 2019 to 2020, from $7.8M to $6.1M (−22%).

$7.8M
$6.1M
$6.2M
$5.4M
$6.1M
$6.5M
$7.0M
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

79% of Southwest Tennessee Community College Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$75k
’19
−$1.7M
’20
−$919k
’21
$302k
’22
$274k
’23
$218k
’24
$676k
’25
21
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.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed16171514171716
Joined·+1+1+0+7+3+0
No longer listed·031431
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $101k → $130k.

5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Southwest Tennessee 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

Southwest Tennessee Community College Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

98% 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 Southwest Tennessee Community College Foundation.

50%
largest funder
83%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 55% · 2019 90% · 2020 25% · 2021 32% · 2022 66% · 2023 100% — 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

38% of Southwest Tennessee Community College Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

95% of Southwest Tennessee Community College Foundation's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

OH
AZ
TN
DC

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Southwest Tennessee Community College Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin48% · top quartile
Months of reserve21.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Southwest Tennessee 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

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

16
board members
94%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

61%

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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Southwest Tennessee Community College · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Southwest Tennessee Community College Foundation?
Southwest Tennessee Community College Foundation (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,441,612 to it, the largest being WOMEN'S FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER MEMPHIS ($723,950). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Southwest Tennessee Community College Foundation have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,441,612 in grants to Southwest Tennessee Community College Foundation, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Southwest Tennessee Community College Foundation?
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER MEMPHIS is the largest funder on record, with $723,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Southwest Tennessee 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 13 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