Tennessee · Nonprofit
TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDRENS EARLY EDUCATION
TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDRENS EARLY EDUCATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $144 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($144). 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
- $80k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $144
- Net assets
- $50k
What Tennessee Association for Childrens Early Education does
Mission
Tacee exists to provide members with professional development opportunities and to advocate for best practices in the care, development, and education of tennessee's young children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided members with professional development opportunities and advocated for best practices in the care, development, and education of tennessee's young children.
$52,500 spent71% of program spendingAnnual conference- to provide its members with professional development opportunities and to advocate for best practices in the care, development, and education of tennessee's young children. This annual conference is a three day conference and was attended by over 500 early childhood professionals this past year. Each participant was given the opportunity to attend various workshops dealing with all aspects of child development and education over the course of the seminar.
$21,474 spent29% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $73,974.
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 2018 to 2019, from $177k to $118k (−33%).
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: 2020 7% · 2021 8% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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.
Board chair
Kosha Perry
West chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $39 → $35.
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 TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDRENS EARLY EDUCATION’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 TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDRENS EARLY EDUCATION'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. $144 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 TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDRENS EARLY EDUCATION
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.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDRENS EARLY EDUCATION: 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 TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDRENS EARLY EDUCATION?
- TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDRENS EARLY EDUCATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $144 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($144). 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 TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDRENS EARLY EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $144 in grants to TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDRENS EARLY EDUCATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDRENS EARLY EDUCATION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $144 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDRENS EARLY EDUCATION 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