Tennessee · Nonprofit
SUCCESSFUL INC
SUCCESSFUL INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,828 to it, the largest being MEMPHIS EQUITY THROUGH ARTS INC ($58,728). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $53k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $114k
- Net assets
- $106k
What Successful Inc does
Mission
To provide musical instruments to deserving band members and other dedicated community musical organization members while also promoting education and the arts
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In the year ended December 31, 2025, Successful Inc distributed 24 musical instruments, musical instrument cases, music books, and accessories to 24 deserving band students. In addition, it gave music books and accessories to one public elementary school, two public middle schools, and two public high schools. Successful Inc did presentations at 3 school band awards programs to promote music education and its importance as well as recognize the band students and the music education teachers who make a difference in their students' lives. Successful Inc did outreach to 5 band directors in Mississippi and over 10 band directors in Tennessee. Successful Inc advised several band booster presidents/members, as well as concerned parents and community members in Mississippi, and Tennessee.
$18,840 spentof which $53,488 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $18,840.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $131k to $106k (−19%).
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.
100% of SUCCESSFUL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Erskin Mitchell Jr
Executive Director
Board chair
Anne Sparrenberger
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $0 → $29k.
From the IRS filings of SUCCESSFUL 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.
How concentrated its funding is
SUCCESSFUL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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 SUCCESSFUL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 65% — 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.
Where its funders are
52% of SUCCESSFUL 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.
Against its field
SUCCESSFUL INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SUCCESSFUL 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.
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 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUCCESSFUL 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 SUCCESSFUL INC?
- SUCCESSFUL INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,828 to it, the largest being MEMPHIS EQUITY THROUGH ARTS INC ($58,728). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUCCESSFUL INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $113,828 in grants to SUCCESSFUL INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUCCESSFUL INC?
- MEMPHIS EQUITY THROUGH ARTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $58,728 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUCCESSFUL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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