The Tennessee Legal Community Foundation TLCF

Analysis

The Tennessee Legal Community Foundation TLCF is a registered charity in United States, based in Nashville, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. 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 June 2023, The Tennessee Legal Community Foundation TLCF reported income of $1.7m and spending of $1.5m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2023, income fell from $1.8m to $1.7m (-3.6%), an average of -1.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 300%. Over the whole period it spent 42% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, The Tennessee Legal Community Foundation TLCF sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Legal Clinic for the Disabled Inc ($1.7m), Court Diagnostic & Treatment Center ($1.7m) and Court Appointed Special Advocates of Fresno and Madera Counties ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 2.0% and program service revenue 94% of the total. At year end it held assets of $7.5m against liabilities of $2.8m, net assets of $4.7m.