Tennessee · Nonprofit
TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE
TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,529 to it, the largest being THE AUTO CLUB GROUP FOUNDATION ($13,125). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $785k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police does
Mission
Bring together law enforcement executives for the purpose of exchange of information and ideas. Offer advanced professional training for law enforcement executives. Promote cooperation between all law enforcement agencies. Influence the enactment of needed legislation. Promote quality basic, technical, and managerial training for law enforcement officers statewide. Maintain a financially sound tax-exempt educational corporation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To exchange information, provide training, and offer programs to educate law enforcement professionals
$288,302 spent$288,302 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $288,302.
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 2023 to 2024, from $997k to $1.3M (+27%).
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: 2021 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $106 → $75.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 OF CHIEFS OF POLICE’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
TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 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
TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $404 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.
Against its field
TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE is better cushioned than half of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $600k on record.
- Department of Justice$600k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE
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
33% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE: 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 OF CHIEFS OF POLICE?
- TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,529 to it, the largest being THE AUTO CLUB GROUP FOUNDATION ($13,125). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $13,529 in grants to TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE?
- THE AUTO CLUB GROUP FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $13,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE 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 2 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