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THE FOUNDATION FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC

THE FOUNDATION FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being THE SHEPPARD FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$35k
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$500
Grants received
$515k
Net assets
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

THE FOUNDATION FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC's revenue fell 65% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−55% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−12% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,403 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($100k) Expenses 100 ($150) Net assets 100 ($150k)2018 Revenue 103 ($103k) Expenses 5049 ($8k) Net assets 164 ($246k)2019 Revenue 6 ($6k) Expenses 2093 ($3k) Net assets 173 ($260k)2020 Revenue 206 ($206k) Expenses 2895 ($4k) Net assets 321 ($481k)2021 Revenue 117 ($117k) Expenses 4148 ($6k) Net assets 388 ($582k)2022 Revenue 11 ($11k) Expenses 4487 ($7k) Net assets 354 ($530k)2023 Revenue 91 ($91k) Expenses 5347 ($8k) Net assets 441 ($661k)2024 Revenue 54 ($54k) Expenses 137693 ($207k) Net assets 339 ($508k)2025 Revenue 35 ($35k) Expenses 36692 ($55k) Net assets 343 ($515k)
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Revenue (35)Expenses (36692)Net assets (343)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of THE FOUNDATION FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,526 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$100k
17
$96k
18
$3k
19
$202k
20
$110k
21
$4k
22
$83k
23
$153k
24
$20k
25
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'17
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of THE FOUNDATION FOR LIVING AND LEARNING 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

THE FOUNDATION FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.

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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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like THE FOUNDATION FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Tennessee

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Center for Living and Learning Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FOUNDATION FOR LIVING AND LEARNING 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC?
THE FOUNDATION FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being THE SHEPPARD FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE FOUNDATION FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500 in grants to THE FOUNDATION FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC.
Who is the largest funder of THE FOUNDATION FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC?
THE SHEPPARD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE FOUNDATION FOR LIVING AND LEARNING 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.

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 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing