Tennessee · Nonprofit
UPPER CUMBERLAND ENTREPRENURIAL FOUNDATION
UPPER CUMBERLAND ENTREPRENURIAL FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,934,914 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORP ($1,729,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $688k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $29k
What Upper Cumberland Entreprenurial Foundation does
Mission
The primary purpose of Upper Cumberland Entreprenurial Foundation is to support the successful development of entrepreneurial companies by matching innovation, education, mentorship, and investments with aspiring entrepreneurs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To support the successful development of entrepreneurial companies by matching innovation, education, mentorship, and investments with aspiring entrepreneurs.
$553,276 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $553,276.
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 2021 to 2022, from $445k to $629k (+41%).
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 67% · 2019 66% · 2020 65% · 2021 52% · 2022 55% · 2023 60% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of UPPER CUMBERLAND ENTREPRENURIAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Jeff Brown
President & CEO
Board chair
Ray Mays
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $225k → $403k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 UPPER CUMBERLAND ENTREPRENURIAL FOUNDATION’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
UPPER CUMBERLAND ENTREPRENURIAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 UPPER CUMBERLAND ENTREPRENURIAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 75% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of UPPER CUMBERLAND ENTREPRENURIAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $205k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
UPPER CUMBERLAND ENTREPRENURIAL FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding UPPER CUMBERLAND ENTREPRENURIAL FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $123k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$123k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like UPPER CUMBERLAND ENTREPRENURIAL FOUNDATION
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UPPER CUMBERLAND ENTREPRENURIAL FOUNDATION: 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 UPPER CUMBERLAND ENTREPRENURIAL FOUNDATION?
- UPPER CUMBERLAND ENTREPRENURIAL FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,934,914 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORP ($1,729,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UPPER CUMBERLAND ENTREPRENURIAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,934,914 in grants to UPPER CUMBERLAND ENTREPRENURIAL FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPPER CUMBERLAND ENTREPRENURIAL FOUNDATION?
- TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORP is the largest funder on record, with $1,729,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPPER CUMBERLAND ENTREPRENURIAL FOUNDATION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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