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EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION

EIN 62-1474791 KNOXVILLE, TN

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Revenue 2025
$10,622,087
Expenses 2025
$11,537,641

Program services were 80.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O50Z
Classification
1700
Street
1014 HEISKELL AVE

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).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION SERVES URBAN YOUTH, ELEMENTARY THROUGH YOUNG ADULT UP TO APPROXIMATELY 25 YEARS OLD, THROUGH A COMPREHENSIVE AND CHRISTIAN MINISTRY OF FAITH, EDUCATION AND SPORTS PROGRAMS IMPLEMENTED THROUGH A NETWORK OF NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCHES. EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION'S PROGRAMS INCLUDE: JUST LEAD, A NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRY MODEL WHICH IMBEDS YOUTH WORKERS TOGETHER WITH CHURCHES ACROSS THE CITY TO PROVIDE AFTERSCHOOL, DISCIPLESHIP, SUMMER AND MENTORING EXPERIENCES; EMERALD YOUTH FELLOWS, A PROGRAM IN WHICH A SELECT GROUP OF GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS ARE CHOSEN TO RECEIVE INTENSIVE MENTORING, CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP TRAINING, AND COLLEGE/CAREER GUIDANCE TO HELP THEM TRANSITION INTO POST-SECONDARY TRAINING AND HELP THEM MOVE INTO THEIR PROFESSIONAL LIVES AND SERVANT LEADERSHIP ROLES; AND EMERALD YOUTH SPORTS, A COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE FOUNDATION AND FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES THAT PROVIDES CARING CHRISTIAN MINISTRY AND PRE-GAME DEVOTIONALS, ALONG WITH HIGH QUALITY CLINIC

  • EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION SERVES URBAN YOUTH, ELEMENTARY THROUGH YOUNG ADULT UP TO APPROXIMATELY 25 YEARS OLD, THROUGH A COMPREHENSIVE AND CHRISTIAN MINISTRY OF FAITH, EDUCATION AND SPORTS PROGRAMS IMPLEMENTED THROUGH A NETWORK OF NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCHES AND COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS.

    Expenses $9,243,337 · Grants $400,000 · Revenue $296,882

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Steve Diggs

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $233,882
    From this org
    $205,766
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $28,116
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $205,766
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $28,116
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $233,882
  • Mike Campbell

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Kathryn Eggleston

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Keith Gray

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Doug Harris

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Dee Haslam

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Rick Johnson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Doug Kennedy

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Jon Lawler

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Tim McLemore

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Byron Williamson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Adam Wright

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $10,622,087
    Expenses
    $11,537,641
    Contributions
    $8,798,162
    Grants paid
    $400,000
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $9,367,489
    Expenses
    $10,430,819
    Contributions
    $7,711,563
    Grants paid
    $100,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $21,054,784
    Expenses
    $9,518,744
    Contributions
    $19,600,532
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,485,195
    Expenses
    $10,690,505
    Contributions
    $5,134,574
    Grants paid
    $0

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,102,853
    Expenses
    $8,911,119
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,135,509
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,128,911
    Expenses
    $8,092,565
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,885,572
  • 2020 · 990-T

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

    Revenue
    $20,637,213
    Expenses
    $7,374,483
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,702,550
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,052,045
    Expenses
    $6,214,594
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,644,144
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,313,231
    Expenses
    $4,181,968
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,791,997
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,065,264
    Expenses
    $3,611,266
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,689,079
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,036,940
    Expenses
    $3,409,286
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,492,799
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,640,429
    Expenses
    $2,725,149
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,127,301
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,460,301
    Expenses
    $2,504,112
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,671,658

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2025 return

  • EMERALD HOLDINGS LLC

    PROPERTY · TN

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.