Tennessee · Nonprofit
TENNESSEE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOC
TENNESSEE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOC (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $294,300 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RURAL UTILITIES COOPERATIVE FINANCE CORPORATION ($294,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $294k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Tennessee Electric Cooperative Assoc does
Mission
To provide information, services, and support to the interests of rural electric cooperatives in tennessee.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide a job training and safety educational program to employees of member cooperatives.
$4,685,467 spent63% of program spendingThe tennessee magazine is the official publication of Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association and the 23 member electric cooperatives. It is published and distributed monhtly to communicate community interests of more than 1 million tennessee families and business-managed, locally owned electric distribution and service systems of the Tennessee Electric Cooperative Assocation. Approximate circulation: 693,936.
$2,577,638 spent35% of program spendingSponsor a youth essay contest about rural electricity to cooperative members with winners earning a tour to washington d.c.
$141,732 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,404,837.
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 2024 to 2025, from $4.2M to $4.7M (+14%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Mike Knotts
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $13k → $20k.
From the IRS filings of TENNESSEE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOC’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
TENNESSEE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOC 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 TENNESSEE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOC
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Teca Telecom Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TENNESSEE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOC: 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 ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOC?
- TENNESSEE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOC (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $294,300 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RURAL UTILITIES COOPERATIVE FINANCE CORPORATION ($294,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TENNESSEE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $294,300 in grants to TENNESSEE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TENNESSEE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOC?
- NATIONAL RURAL UTILITIES COOPERATIVE FINANCE CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $294,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TENNESSEE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOC 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.
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