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Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association
Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,000 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE TITANS FOUNDATION ($80,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $93k
- Net assets
- $9.2M
What Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association does
Mission
To develop sportsmanship, character and integrity through athletic competition
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Employees organize, provide oversight and administration of all events. 70% of total salaries and benefits are allocated to program expense.
$1,543,908 spent44% of program spendingCatastrophic insurance provides necessary coverage to allow for football and basketball competition. Insurance coverage is also provided for officials.
$817,657 spent23% of program spending70% of indirect administrative expenses in Part IX are allocated to program services
$328,021 spent9% of program spendingRule books for various sports, newsletters, and various other publications
$229,832 spent7% of program spendingRebates to schools - provides funding to member schools
$177,250 spent5% of program spendingSupervision of officials for various sports
$149,641 spent4% of program spendingMember oversight - Representatives of member schools provides program goverance,structure and oversight
$123,529 spent3% of program spendingLobbying and legislature - provides education and legal response to potential laws impacting high school athletics
$121,150 spent3% of program spendingEducation scholarships and other awards - given to recognize individuals achieving various selected criteria
$39,000 spentof which $39,000 as grants1% of program spending
The 9 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,529,988.
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 2024 to 2025, from $7.5M to $9.4M (+25%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 10% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Mark Reeves
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 Secondary School Athletic Association’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 Secondary School Athletic Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
“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
100% of Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association'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.
Against its field
Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association
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
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association: 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 Secondary School Athletic Association?
- Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,000 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE TITANS FOUNDATION ($80,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $93,000 in grants to Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association?
- TENNESSEE TITANS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association 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 2 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