Tennessee · Nonprofit
THE NATIONAL BLACK TECH ECOSYSTEM BUILDER ASSOCIATION
THE NATIONAL BLACK TECH ECOSYSTEM BUILDER ASSOCIATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $605,000 to it, the largest being Democracy Fund Inc ($260,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $779k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $605k
- Net assets
- $473k
What The National Black Tech Ecosystem Builder Association does
Mission
Connect underserved communities to public-interest tech by assessing ecosystems, securing resources, and sharing best practices to build digital futures.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Align historically underserved communities with public interest tech organizations and opportunities within cities locally, nationally, and globally. Assessing innovation and tech ecosystems of traditionally underserved communities, developing a funnel of financial resources, and creating spaces for community leaders to share best practices across cities to build digital futures.
$521,997 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $521,997.
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 $330k to $474k (+44%).
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: 2023 100% · 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE NATIONAL BLACK TECH ECOSYSTEM BUILDER ASSOCIATION’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 3 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
Fallon S Wilson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 NATIONAL BLACK TECH ECOSYSTEM BUILDER 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
THE NATIONAL BLACK TECH ECOSYSTEM BUILDER ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 NATIONAL BLACK TECH ECOSYSTEM BUILDER ASSOCIATION.
“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
THE NATIONAL BLACK TECH ECOSYSTEM BUILDER ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $250k 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 NATIONAL BLACK TECH ECOSYSTEM BUILDER ASSOCIATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 904 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE NATIONAL BLACK TECH ECOSYSTEM BUILDER 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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE NATIONAL BLACK TECH ECOSYSTEM BUILDER 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 THE NATIONAL BLACK TECH ECOSYSTEM BUILDER ASSOCIATION?
- THE NATIONAL BLACK TECH ECOSYSTEM BUILDER ASSOCIATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $605,000 to it, the largest being Democracy Fund Inc ($260,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE NATIONAL BLACK TECH ECOSYSTEM BUILDER ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $605,000 in grants to THE NATIONAL BLACK TECH ECOSYSTEM BUILDER ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NATIONAL BLACK TECH ECOSYSTEM BUILDER ASSOCIATION?
- Democracy Fund Inc is the largest funder on record, with $260,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NATIONAL BLACK TECH ECOSYSTEM BUILDER 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 2023–2025), 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