Tennessee · Nonprofit
TNACHIEVES
TNACHIEVES (Tennessee) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,461,909 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC ($1,150,147). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.6M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $7.5M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Tnachieves does
Mission
To enhance post-secondary opportunities and outcomes by providing holistic student supports rooted in community and accountability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Administration of non-financial components of tennessee promise as a partnering oranization in 83 counties of tennessee - the organization adminsiters tennessee promise for the tennessee higher education commission and tennessee student assistance corporation. Through programs operated by Tnachieves, tennessee promise provides support and financial assistance that allows students to attend an eligible post secondary educational program in the state of tennesee. Tnachieves ensures students meet the requirements for recieving assistance, facilitates volunteer mentoring to ensure student success and monitors requirements for students to participate in community volunteer and service roles as a part of receiveing assistance.
$1,476,858 spent$31,822 earned by the program22% of program spendingManagment of knox promise - the organization operates knox promise. Knox promise is a pilot program that provides mentoring, coaching and financial assitance to students from knox county, tn. Recipients are determined by need to ensure unexpected financial burdens are not barriers to college graduation. Limited assistance may be provided to purchase books, pay rent or transportation costs, food or other financial needs a student may have that might endanger their ability to stay in school. If a student meets the specific financial requirements for assistance, knox promise students may receive up to $1,500 per student per semester for up to five semesters or $938 per student for up to eight trimesters.
$598,779 spentof which $320,056 as grants9% of program spendingThe organization manages and disburses completion grants for students across tennessee excluding knox county, determined by need, to ensure unexpected financial burdens are not barriers to college graduation. Limited assistance may be provided to purchase books, pay rent or transportation costs, food or other financial needs a student may have that might endanger their ability to stay in school. If a student meets the specific financial requirements for assistance, students may receive up to $1,000 per student each semester for up to five semesters or $625 per student for up to eight trimesters.
$4,619,632 spentof which $1,819,956 as grants69% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,695,269.
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 2019 to 2020, from $487k to $1.4M (+190%).
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 11% · 2018 14% · 2019 72% · 2020 69% · 2021 43% · 2022 55% · 2023 71% · 2024 69% · 2025 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of TNACHIEVES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Krissy Dealejandro
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $852k → $825k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 TNACHIEVES’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
TNACHIEVES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders 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 TNACHIEVES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 36% · 2019 39% · 2020 32% · 2021 68% · 2022 19% · 2023 21% — 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
62% of TNACHIEVES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
90% of TNACHIEVES's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
TNACHIEVES has grown faster than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like TNACHIEVES
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
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TNACHIEVES: 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 TNACHIEVES?
- TNACHIEVES (Tennessee) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,461,909 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC ($1,150,147). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TNACHIEVES have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $7,461,909 in grants to TNACHIEVES, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TNACHIEVES?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC is the largest funder on record, with $1,150,147 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TNACHIEVES 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 21 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