Tennessee · Nonprofit
TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION
TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,730,278 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($33,295,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $103M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education does
Mission
The mission of the state collaborative on reforming education (score) is to catalyze transformative change in tennessee education so that all students can achieve success. Score is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan institution, founded in 2009 by senator bill frist, md, former us senate majority leader. We work across the education continuum from kindergarten to career through policy, practice, and strategic partnerships.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Policy advocacy: score builds awareness and support for education issues and works to sustain momentum among organizations and individuals around improving student success in the state of tennessee. Score's efforts in 2024 included the following: -score published the 2025 state of education in tennessee, which elevated key student outcomes data and provided recommendations that informed policy advocacy priorities to advance student learning and outcomes in tennessee. -score championed policies and/or state investments focused on defending and advancing foundational k-12 education reforms, bolstering the educator pipeline, supporting high-quality public charter schools, and better connecting education to work, including using data to support education-to-work pathways. -score worked with multi-sector state partners to develop a framework for impact credentials -- credentials or degrees that lead to career opportunity and economic independence. This framework measures credentials based on wage, job outlook, and stackability.
$3,279,315 spent22% of program spendingStrategic practice: score produces reports that elevate important topics, supports pilot efforts in communities across the state to generate proof points for what works to drive student success, and shares best practices to advance score's strategic priorities. Score's efforts in 2024 included the following: -score supported innovative initiatives for policy and practice solutions across tennessee, including those that support innovative education-to-work pathways, high-dosage tutoring, educator preparation in early literacy, and strategic educator staffing. -score shared research, innovative practices, and supported implementation in partnership with school leaders, district leaders, and partners in the following networks, working groups, and sessions: -score supported efforts to design, launch, and fund education-to-work high school programs to better align education and work and support students to access high-wage, high-demand careers. -score focused on preparing future teachers to teach high-quality early literacy curriculum grounded in the science of reading through its continued leadership of the lead in literacy network. -score launched a strategic staffing network focused…
$2,853,705 spent19% of program spendingActivating philanthropy: score works to collaboratively support key partners whose efforts align with score's theory of change. Score's efforts in 2024 included the following: -score provided subgrants to 30+ organizations -- at the state level and in communities across tennessee -- that are aligned with score's mission and vision for student success. These subgrants supported organizations to develop proof-points and expand their impact for students in ways that aligned with and informed statewide education priorities. -score supported innovation in tennessee through the innovation fund -- an early-seed fund for education entrepreneurs and mission-aligned organizations launching new efforts. In 2024, the innovation fund supported k-12 leader development and innovative approaches to use data to inform school-based decision making.
$8,136,260 spentof which $7,150,596 as grants54% of program spendingData & research: score uses data and the latest research on key policies and practices to elevate important student achievement and education trends, spotlight challenges and opportunities, and to set ambitious goals for tennessee education. Score's efforts in 2024 included the following:- score launched tn2030, a set of ambitious, yet attainable, student achievement goals from k-12 to career that aim for all tennessee students to be on a clear pathway toward opportunity.- score produced educator labor market reports for multiple school districts across tennessee and published a memo series to spotlight key trends and innovations in educator staffing.- score updated its charter school webpage with the latest data, facts, and best practices from the tennessee public charter school sector.- score published our biannual postsecondary data book, higher ed by the numbers, to provide a snapshot of data across postsecondary preparation, persistence, and success.
$919,483 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,188,763.
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 $16M to $23M (+42%).
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.
95% of TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% 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.
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
David Mansouri
President & CEO
Board chair
Dr William H Frist
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $9.5M → $14M.
10 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 funders by total. 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 STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 88% · 2019 49% · 2020 54% · 2021 73% · 2022 55% · 2023 37% — 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
45% of TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
58% of TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION'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 $43M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 14 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION: 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 STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION?
- TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,730,278 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($33,295,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $102,730,278 in grants to TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $33,295,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION 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.
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 45 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