Tennessee · Nonprofit
TENNESSEE BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
TENNESSEE BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $146,383 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP ($146,383). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $290k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $146k
- Net assets
- $371k
What Tennessee Business Leadership Council does
Mission
The Tennessee Business Leadership Council is organized for the primary purpose of promoting the common business interests of its members, and, among other things, it shall support policies that foster economic growth and the general business climate in tennessee. It is a membership organization comprised of business leaders that represent a cross-section of business interests across tennessee. The mission of the organization is to support policies and initiatives that help make tennessee the best state in the country to do business and improve economic opportunity for all tennesseans.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides members a forum for valuable peer-to-peer interaction, timely and insightful policy and political information, and meaningful interaction and dialogue with tennessee governmental leaders. The Tennessee Business Leadership Council is a membership organization comprised of business leaders from across tennessee. The purpose of the organization is to facilitate engagement and information sharing for business leaders who share a common goal of making tennessee a thriving center for business opportunity, work in conjunction with reputable research partners to study and analyze issues impacting the business community and state, and offer unbiased, data-driven ideas to help solve some of the most important issues confronting our state. The membership is comprised of key business leaders from across the state who have influence in their respective communities and represent a cross-section of business interests in tennessee. The organization convenes meetings for its members a few times per year to give them the opportunity to meet with each other while also meeting with policymakers and receiving policy updates and survey results. Members also receive regular…
$226,079 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $226,079.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $203k to $283k (+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.
100% of TENNESSEE BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
John R Ingram
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of TENNESSEE BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL’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 BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
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.
Against its field
TENNESSEE BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL is better cushioned than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TENNESSEE BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TENNESSEE BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL: 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 BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL?
- TENNESSEE BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $146,383 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP ($146,383). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TENNESSEE BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $146,383 in grants to TENNESSEE BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL.
- Who is the largest funder of TENNESSEE BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL?
- TENNESSEE BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP is the largest funder on record, with $146,383 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TENNESSEE BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL 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 2018–2025), 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