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FRIENDS OF SPECIAL CHILDREN

EIN 26-1714442 CHATTANOOGA, TN

Largest nonprofits in Tennessee

Revenue 2025
$629,329
Expenses 2025
$649,785

Program services were 99.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P30
Classification
1000
Street
1200 MARKET ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

TO SEEK OUT AND PROVIDE ASSISTANCE IN THE BETTERMENT OF THE LIVES OF SPECIAL CHILDREN IN OUR COMMUNITY.

  • TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO SIGNAL CENTERS IN THEIR EARLY INTERVENTION, PRESCHOOL AND AFTER-CARE PROGRAMS FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN.

    Expenses $646,661 · Grants $637,943

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Angeline Fairchild

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tracy Allen

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nancy Underwood

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Pam Schulman

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $629,329
    Expenses
    $649,785
    Contributions
    $619,311
    Grants paid
    $637,943
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $298,001
    Expenses
    $283,576
    Contributions
    $262,607
    Grants paid
    $275,923
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $289,641
    Expenses
    $264,781
    Contributions
    $217,882
    Grants paid
    $259,250
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $149,670
    Expenses
    $190,817
    Contributions
    $93,670
    Grants paid
    $180,646

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2025 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $223,744
    Expenses
    $213,864
    Assets (EOY)
    $58,947
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $166,219
    Expenses
    $157,684
    Assets (EOY)
    $49,067
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $182,448
    Expenses
    $156,989
    Assets (EOY)
    $40,532
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $166,501
    Expenses
    $186,888
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,073

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • 2025 TO FUND MISCELLANEOUS YEAR TO YEAR CAPITAL PROJECT NEEDS OF THE ORGANIZATION.

  • 2024 TO FUND MISCELLANEOUS YEAR TO YEAR CAPITAL PROJECT NEEDS OF THE ORGANIZATION.

  • 2023 TO FUND MISCELLANEOUS YEAR TO YEAR CAPITAL PROJECT NEEDS OF THE ORGANIZATION.

  • 2022 TO FUND MISCELLANEOUS YEAR TO YEAR CAPITAL PROJECT NEEDS OF THE ORGANIZATION.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.