Tennessee · Nonprofit
THE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND
THE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $856,750 to it, the largest being CIVIC TN ($299,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $406k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $857k
- Net assets
- $440k
What The Equity Alliance Fund does
Mission
Teaf encourages black voters to support policies and candidates who will invest in overlooked and underserved communities of color.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, tea achieved victories across its electoral and organizing efforts, through a combination of volunteer and paid teammates. Our endorsed candidates won key races in shelby county school board district 2 and state house district 67, and we helped secure a win for the nashville transit referendum. We also exceeded our canvassing goals in multiple races, surpassing gotv phase targets in the nashville transit campaign as well as state house districts 67, 75, and 97, and beating candidate id phase goals in house districts 49 and 97. In addition, we exceeded our phone banking goals in every race where we competed. To support this growth, tea developed new how-to guides and standard operating procedures, improving onboarding for staff and volunteers and strengthening the use of van across our campaigns.
$256,734 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $256,734.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $292k to $440k (+51%).
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.
100% of THE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $128k → $226k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 THE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND’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
THE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 THE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 63% · 2023 73% — growing more concentrated.
“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
62% of THE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,800 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,800 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND: 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 THE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND?
- THE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $856,750 to it, the largest being CIVIC TN ($299,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $856,750 in grants to THE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND?
- CIVIC TN is the largest funder on record, with $299,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 6 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing