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TENNESSEE CHARTER SCHOOL CENTER

TENNESSEE CHARTER SCHOOL CENTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,889,949 to it, the largest being MEMPHIS EDUCATION FUND INC ($2,625,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.2M
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$6.9M
Net assets
$619k
9/14 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Tennessee Charter School Center does

Mission

To support and cultivate high-performing public charter schools and advocate for autonomy, accountability, and choice in public education in tennessee.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The Tennessee Charter School Center (tcsc) is playing a critical role in providing technical support to new and high-quality public charter schools in tennessee and advocating for policies at the local and state level in an effort to enable public charter schools to grow and operate successfully. Tcsc provided technical assistance and compliance support to charter schools across the state. Tcsc monitored numerous bills during the legislative session and advocated for key policies that helped support the public charter school landscape in tennessee.

    $233,161 spent
    13% of program spending
  2. Supporting high quality schools tcsc hosted multiple trainings covering: advancing equity, charter school management, charter 101, special education, and charter facility training. Tcsc was able to assist schools with sourcing capital for facilities projects, which directly lowered the cost of borrowing.

    $1,531,652 spent$254,096 earned by the program
    87% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,764,813.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($518k) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 311 ($1.6M) Expenses 84 ($1.5M) Net assets 107 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 391 ($2.0M) Expenses 92 ($1.7M) Net assets 132 ($1.8M)2020 Revenue 191 ($992k) Expenses 93 ($1.7M) Net assets 80 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 294 ($1.5M) Expenses 93 ($1.7M) Net assets 67 ($911k)2022 Revenue 504 ($2.6M) Expenses 107 ($2.0M) Net assets 116 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 207 ($1.1M) Expenses 104 ($1.9M) Net assets 56 ($753k)2024 Revenue 235 ($1.2M) Expenses 74 ($1.4M) Net assets 46 ($619k)
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Revenue (235)Expenses (74)Net assets (46)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.7M to $822k (−51%).

$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.8M
$1.2M
$995k
$1.7M
$822k
$660k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

84% of TENNESSEE CHARTER SCHOOL CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1.3M
’17
$89k
’18
$350k
’19
−$705k
’20
−$176k
’21
$663k
’22
−$821k
’23
−$134k
’24
3.1
months of
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

Chris Barbic

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1414131213171514
Joined·+0+2+1+6+5+0+1
No longer listed·0325122
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $5k → $915k.

2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 CHARTER SCHOOL CENTER’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 CHARTER SCHOOL CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

62% 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 TENNESSEE CHARTER SCHOOL CENTER.

38%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 75% · 2019 94% · 2020 50% · 2021 37% · 2022 36% · 2023 27% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

50% of TENNESSEE CHARTER SCHOOL CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

56% of TENNESSEE CHARTER SCHOOL CENTER's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

MI
NY
OR
CA
CO
AR
TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $414k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TENNESSEE CHARTER SCHOOL CENTER has grown faster than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like TENNESSEE CHARTER SCHOOL CENTER

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

68%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

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Questions and answers

Who funds TENNESSEE CHARTER SCHOOL CENTER?
TENNESSEE CHARTER SCHOOL CENTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,889,949 to it, the largest being MEMPHIS EDUCATION FUND INC ($2,625,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TENNESSEE CHARTER SCHOOL CENTER have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $6,889,949 in grants to TENNESSEE CHARTER SCHOOL CENTER, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TENNESSEE CHARTER SCHOOL CENTER?
MEMPHIS EDUCATION FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,625,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TENNESSEE CHARTER SCHOOL CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 14 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