Tennessee · Nonprofit
SUZUKI TALENT EDUCATION OF APPALACHIA
SUZUKI TALENT EDUCATION OF APPALACHIA (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $299 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($299). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $61k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $299
- Net assets
- $75k
What Suzuki Talent Education of Appalachia does
Mission
Suzuki Talent Education of Appalachia is committed to providing quality music instruction in a positive and nurturing environment, following the concepts and pedagogy of Shinichi Suzuki, violinist and teacher. STEA aspires to bring the highest quality instruction to its students and to make its programs available, whenever feasible, to a wider segment of the community, including the handicapped and the economically disadvantaged through grants and scholarship programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Instruction in violin, viola, cello & piano utilizing suzuki method of instruction. Program includes private & group instruction, workshops, recitals, public performance & concerts. Normally serves 50-60 students.
$60,016 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $60,016.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $62k to $73k (+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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $43 → $78.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SUZUKI TALENT EDUCATION OF APPALACHIA’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 SUZUKI TALENT EDUCATION OF APPALACHIA'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $299 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like SUZUKI TALENT EDUCATION OF APPALACHIA
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
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SUZUKI TALENT EDUCATION OF APPALACHIA?
- SUZUKI TALENT EDUCATION OF APPALACHIA (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $299 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($299). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SUZUKI TALENT EDUCATION OF APPALACHIA have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $299 in grants to SUZUKI TALENT EDUCATION OF APPALACHIA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUZUKI TALENT EDUCATION OF APPALACHIA?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $299 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUZUKI TALENT EDUCATION OF APPALACHIA 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 2021–2025), 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