Tennessee · Nonprofit
TENNESSEE QUALITY AWARD INC
TENNESSEE QUALITY AWARD INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $420k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $128k
What Tennessee Quality Award Inc does
Mission
The mission of tennessee quality award, inc. D/b/a tennessee center for performance excellence (tncpe) is to drive organizational excellence in tennessee.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Throughout the year, tncpe provides training opportunities to organizations that want to improve processes and results. All of these programs are either free or available at low cost and open to the public. Organizations interested in applying to tncpes evaluation and feedback program can attend one of tncpes application workshops. Other workshops that focus on the criteria and performance improvement methods are held in conjunction with the annual excellence in tennessee conference. When an organization wins an excellence award, tncpes highest honor, it offers a series of best practice tours from which attendees take home ideas for performance improvement strategies. Tncpe also conducts custom training sessions and presentations to interested organizations.
$186,831 spent50% of program spendingEvery year, tncpe trains 150-200 volunteers to serve on its board of examiners. Following this in-depth training in the criteria for performance excellence, examiners provide an essential service to tncpe by conducting the evaluation and feedback process. Some examiners have referred to their experience as a mini mba. This training also empowers examiners to apply the criteria at their own jobs, improving processes and results along the way. As a result, examiners spread the lessons of the criteria at a grass-roots level - whether or not their employers choose to participate as a tncpe applicant. This is just another way tncpe achieves its mission to lead businesses and other organizations in the pursuit of performance excellence.
$186,831 spent50% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $373,662.
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 2018 to 2019, from $452k to $201k (−55%).
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. 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
Heather Schoch
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of TENNESSEE QUALITY AWARD INC’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
100% of TENNESSEE QUALITY AWARD INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
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 QUALITY AWARD INC
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 QUALITY AWARD INC: 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 QUALITY AWARD INC?
- TENNESSEE QUALITY AWARD INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TENNESSEE QUALITY AWARD INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to TENNESSEE QUALITY AWARD INC.
- Who is the largest funder of TENNESSEE QUALITY AWARD INC?
- UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TENNESSEE QUALITY AWARD INC 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 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