Tennessee · Nonprofit
TENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT
TENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT (Tennessee) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,744 to it, the largest being HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $76k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $91k
- Net assets
- $72k
What Tennessee Equality Project does
Mission
To promote equality for lgbt citizens of tennessee
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Grassroots lobbying efforts advocating for lgbt rights and equal treatment at the local and state levels within tennessee.
$16,959 spent33% of program spendingDirect lobbying efforts advocating and protecting the rights of lgbt citizens of tennessee.
$34,250 spent67% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $51,209.
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 2022 to 2023, from $12k to $55k (+354%).
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 EQUALITY PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Ginger Leonard
Chair & pres
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.
From the IRS filings of TENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT’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 EQUALITY PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
74% 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 EQUALITY PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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 EQUALITY PROJECT draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 6 states 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.
Against its field
TENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,043 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,043 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like TENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT: 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 EQUALITY PROJECT?
- TENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT (Tennessee) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,744 to it, the largest being HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $90,744 in grants to TENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT?
- HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT 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 8 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing