Tennessee · Nonprofit
TENNESSEE NONPROFIT NETWORK
TENNESSEE NONPROFIT NETWORK (Tennessee) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,360,592 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($4,054,134). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $7.4M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Tennessee Nonprofit Network does
Mission
We build the momentum of the nonprofit sector to create equitable, measurable and lasting change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Tennessee Nonprofit Network serves as the statewide nonprofit association in tennessee and provides comprehensive support to nonprofits through policy and advocacy support, sector research, technical assistance, and comprehensive learning opportunities that enable nonprofits to better accomplish their missions. Tennessee Nonprofit Network provided technical assistance to more than 1,800 nonprofit organizations, and more than 5,200 nonprofit professionals utilized Tennessee Nonprofit Network for their professional development needs. Tennessee Nonprofit Network served as an intermediary, connecting and working with nonprofits across all fields of service, and thereby reduced redundancies in funding and created cost savings and increased returns for philanthropy. Tennessee Nonprofit Network's program model is driven by its vision for a nonprofit sector, with a high-quality workforce and leaders who are reflective of our state's demographics, which is working alongside philanthropy, business, and government sectors in united efforts to solve community problems.
$1,134,957 spent$153,352 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,134,957.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.2M to $4.2M (+32%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 14% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of TENNESSEE NONPROFIT NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Kevin Dean
President & CEO
Board chair
Mark Jordan
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $1.2M → $762k.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 NONPROFIT NETWORK’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 NONPROFIT NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
64% 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 NONPROFIT NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 90% · 2020 65% · 2021 69% · 2022 52% · 2023 31% — 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
63% of TENNESSEE NONPROFIT NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.
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
62% of TENNESSEE NONPROFIT NETWORK'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 $2.8M that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 NONPROFIT NETWORK holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like TENNESSEE NONPROFIT NETWORK
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TENNESSEE NONPROFIT NETWORK: 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 NONPROFIT NETWORK?
- TENNESSEE NONPROFIT NETWORK (Tennessee) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,360,592 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($4,054,134). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TENNESSEE NONPROFIT NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $7,360,592 in grants to TENNESSEE NONPROFIT NETWORK, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TENNESSEE NONPROFIT NETWORK?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,054,134 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TENNESSEE NONPROFIT NETWORK 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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