Tennessee · Nonprofit
TENNESSEE NO FEAR
TENNESSEE NO FEAR (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,372 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $44k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $13k
What Tennessee No Fear does
Mission
Tennessee No Fear fosters education in amateur youth athletes in middle tennessee and surrounding communities with sound athletic and act preparation through expert training geared to allow each student athlete to obtain their optimal performance potential. Our emphasis is on developing test taking strategies, physical fitness, sportsmanship, teamwork, spiritual development and leadership skills in a positive, safe environment. Tennessee No Fear strives to provide opportunities for all participants to develop individual skills and abilities while being a contributing member of society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Tennessee No Fear developed test taking strategies, physical fitness, sportsmanship, teamwork, spiritual development, and leadership skills for amatuer youth athletes in a positive, safe environment
$57,619 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $57,619.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $26k to $13k (−52%).
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.
0% of TENNESSEE NO FEAR’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $72.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 NO FEAR’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 NO FEAR 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
98% 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 NO FEAR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 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
98% of TENNESSEE NO FEAR's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $300 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k 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.
Against its field
TENNESSEE NO FEAR's revenue fell 46% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like TENNESSEE NO FEAR
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In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TENNESSEE NO FEAR: 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 NO FEAR?
- TENNESSEE NO FEAR (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,372 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TENNESSEE NO FEAR have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $12,372 in grants to TENNESSEE NO FEAR.
- Who is the largest funder of TENNESSEE NO FEAR?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TENNESSEE NO FEAR 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 3 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