Tennessee · Nonprofit
STATEWIDE ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCE PROJECT
STATEWIDE ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCE PROJECT (Tennessee) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,556,222 to it, the largest being MARGUERITE CASEY FOUNDATION ($488,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $844k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $538k
What Statewide Organizing for Community Empowerment Resource Project does
Mission
Supports and promotes leadership development and skills training public education around important public policy grassroots community organizing and active engagement in the democratic process. SOCM Resource Project works for and supports social economic and environmental justice organizing.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
SOCM Resource Project works to enhance leadership skills of individuals and community groups. Programs and training include public speaking facilitation research power analysis writing good editorials anti-racism workshops strategic analysis how to frame and win issues how to agree to disagree conflict management how to talk with decision makers how to do voter registration and other development training as needed and identified. This program serves community members across the State of Tennessee. The program is the basis for grassroots community organizing and happens indirectly on a daily basis doing program work and directly as scheduled.
$263,921 spent60% of program spendingPublic education housing justice research government accountability and public participation. The program serves community members across the State of Tennessee with special emphasis on marginalized communities. These activities are a primary part of our grassroots community organizing efforts and occur on a daily basis through email and phone conversations traditional and social media and direct action.
$151,222 spent34% of program spendingFiscal management of Nashville Living Wage with an economic justice focus and oversight for other small groups through the Cloud Mountain Project that have an environmental justice focus.
$24,726 spent6% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $439,869.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $266k to $542k (+104%).
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.
99% of STATEWIDE ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCE PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $68k → $220k.
7 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 STATEWIDE ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCE PROJECT’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
STATEWIDE ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCE PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 STATEWIDE ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCE PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 94% · 2021 44% · 2022 36% · 2023 50% — 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.
How long its funders stay
60% of STATEWIDE ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCE PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
STATEWIDE ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCE PROJECT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $685k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
STATEWIDE ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCE PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like STATEWIDE ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCE PROJECT
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 1 related entity
- Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STATEWIDE ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCE PROJECT?
- STATEWIDE ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCE PROJECT (Tennessee) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,556,222 to it, the largest being MARGUERITE CASEY FOUNDATION ($488,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STATEWIDE ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCE PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,556,222 in grants to STATEWIDE ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCE PROJECT, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STATEWIDE ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCE PROJECT?
- MARGUERITE CASEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $488,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STATEWIDE ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCE PROJECT 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 14 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