Tennessee · Nonprofit
Tennesseans for the Arts
Tennesseans for the Arts (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $23,100 to it, the largest being South Arts Inc ($23,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $95k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $23k
- Net assets
- $96k
What Tennesseans for the Arts does
Mission
Promotion & support of the arts in tennessee
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Education & info services to tn arts and cultural organizations conduit for tac (tn arts commissions) project
$57,395 spent94% of program spendingArt advocacy for the state via lobbying
$3,400 spent6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $60,795.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $47k to $78k (+67%).
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: 2017 16% · 2018 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $8k.
From the IRS filings of Tennesseans for the Arts’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
Tennesseans for the Arts 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. 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 Tennesseans for the Arts
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 Tennesseans for the Arts: 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 Tennesseans for the Arts?
- Tennesseans for the Arts (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $23,100 to it, the largest being South Arts Inc ($23,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Tennesseans for the Arts have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $23,100 in grants to Tennesseans for the Arts, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Tennesseans for the Arts?
- South Arts Inc is the largest funder on record, with $23,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Tennesseans for the Arts 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 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