Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education

Analysis

Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education is a registered charity in United States, based in Nashville, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education reported income of $15.5m and spending of $16.4m, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $9.5m to $15.5m (+62%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 95%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Reason Foundation ($15.5m), Yeshiva Orchos Chaim Inc ($15.5m) and Aspen Public Schools Inc ($15.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $1.4m (8.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $3.1m. At year end it held assets of $24.0m against liabilities of $1.1m, net assets of $22.9m. It reported 44 employees.