Tennessee · Nonprofit
TAF Rural Expansion Foundation
TAF Rural Expansion Foundation (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $27,500,000 to it, the largest being Governors Rural Education Foundation ($27,500,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
TAF Rural Expansion Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Inclocal
- Regions Foundationportfolio match
- Ballad Healthportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 97% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of TAF Rural Expansion Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of TAF Rural Expansion 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.
Where its funders are
100% of TAF Rural Expansion Foundation's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn InclocalTN · funds 4 organizations near you
- Regions Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ballad Healthportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ardon & Iris Moore Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joseph W Craft III Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Four Pines Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Laroche Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mikeroweworks Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Town Branch Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wellmont Health Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scarlett Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like TAF Rural Expansion Foundation
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Ayers Foundation · exempt
- The Ayers Foundation Trust · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TAF Rural Expansion Foundation: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds TAF Rural Expansion Foundation?
- TAF Rural Expansion Foundation (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $27,500,000 to it, the largest being Governors Rural Education Foundation ($27,500,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TAF Rural Expansion Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $27,500,000 in grants to TAF Rural Expansion Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TAF Rural Expansion Foundation?
- Governors Rural Education Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $27,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TAF Rural Expansion 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing