Tennessee · Nonprofit
Taking Back the Future
Taking Back the Future (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,027 to it, the largest being NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ($70,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $58k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $120k
- Net assets
- $8k
What Taking Back the Future does
Mission
The organizations primary exempt purpose is to prepare youth and families to think critically, make informed decisions, and navigate complex life and career pathways by providing structured life-education programs, including symposiums and continued connection opportunities that maintain support and continued learning.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Next-Level Champions is a life-education program designed to equip elite high school athletes and their families with the knowledge, tools, and resources needed to navigate the complex sports ecosystem.The program addresses key areas including financial literacy, mental and emotional well-being, decision-making, media and brand awareness, and relationship management.
$5,341 spent25% of program spendingGLAM (Grace Leadership Activism Mindfulness) GLAM! Fest is a two-day life-education conference serving up to 100 girls and young women ages 15-22. The program connects participants with women leaders from diverse professional and personal backgrounds through interactive sessions focused on leadership development, identity, wellness, and social awareness.
$16,323 spent75% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $21,664.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2019 to 2020, from $118k to $70k (−40%).
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.
52% of Taking Back the Future’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Judith Moore
President and CEO
Board chair
Ann Sacommano
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $20k → $10k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 Taking Back the Future’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
Taking Back the Future leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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 Taking Back the Future.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 77% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Taking Back the Future draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Taking Back the Future's revenue fell 83% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Taking Back the Future
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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Taking Back the Future: 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 Taking Back the Future?
- Taking Back the Future (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,027 to it, the largest being NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ($70,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Taking Back the Future have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $120,027 in grants to Taking Back the Future, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Taking Back the Future?
- NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Taking Back the Future 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 2017–2025), 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