Tennessee · Nonprofit
THE GREAT SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST
THE GREAT SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $593,083 to it, the largest being CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION OF KNOXVILLE ($300,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $593k
- Net assets
- $0
What The Great Schools Partnership Charitable Trust does
Mission
To serve as a catalyst, think tank, incubator, start-up funder and operational partner for making knox county schools globally competitive.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
Community schools purpose is to break down the barriers to student learning by convening primarily existing resources to use the school as the neighborhood hub to promote and support healthy, vibrant families, schools and communities. Community schools collaborates with more than 275 community partners to support student success by building systems of support for: mental and physical health, basic needs, family engagement, social emotional learning, and community development for positive growth.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.1M to $0 (−100%).
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 60% · 2018 62% · 2019 63% · 2020 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $325k → $88k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.8M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE GREAT SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST raised.
From the IRS filings of THE GREAT SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST’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 GREAT SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
51% 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 GREAT SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 96% · 2019 98% · 2020 100% — 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
100% of THE GREAT SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 THE GREAT SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Knox Education Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE GREAT SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST: 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 GREAT SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST?
- THE GREAT SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $593,083 to it, the largest being CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION OF KNOXVILLE ($300,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GREAT SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $593,083 in grants to THE GREAT SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GREAT SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST?
- CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION OF KNOXVILLE is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GREAT SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 4 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