Tennessee · Nonprofit
TENNESSEANS FOR STUDENT SUCCESS INC
TENNESSEANS FOR STUDENT SUCCESS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $960,000 to it, the largest being CITY FUND ACTION ($845,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
TENNESSEANS FOR STUDENT SUCCESS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Educationshared fundersportfolio match
- Scarlett Family Foundationportfolio match
- Action Tnportfolio match
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.
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 TENNESSEANS FOR STUDENT SUCCESS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $40k → $300k.
From the IRS filings of TENNESSEANS FOR STUDENT SUCCESS 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
TENNESSEANS FOR STUDENT SUCCESS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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 TENNESSEANS FOR STUDENT SUCCESS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
TENNESSEANS FOR STUDENT SUCCESS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states in all.
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.
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. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 310 organizations that share them.
- Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Educationshared fundersportfolio matchTN · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Scarlett Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Action Tnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Federation for Children Growth Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nashville Public Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tennessee Golf Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Yes Every Kid Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ayers Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fleetwood Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Slingshot Memphis Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Memphis Education Fund Incshared fundersTN · backs 14 organizations that share your funders
- Charles and Helen Schwab Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 34 organizations that share your funders
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 TENNESSEANS FOR STUDENT SUCCESS INC
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TENNESSEANS FOR STUDENT SUCCESS 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.
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 TENNESSEANS FOR STUDENT SUCCESS INC?
- TENNESSEANS FOR STUDENT SUCCESS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $960,000 to it, the largest being CITY FUND ACTION ($845,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TENNESSEANS FOR STUDENT SUCCESS INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $960,000 in grants to TENNESSEANS FOR STUDENT SUCCESS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TENNESSEANS FOR STUDENT SUCCESS INC?
- CITY FUND ACTION is the largest funder on record, with $845,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TENNESSEANS FOR STUDENT SUCCESS 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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