AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE INC

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 120160

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 · 2024

• THE UNDERLYING PHILOSOPHY GUIDING ACLUF-TN'S COMMUNICATIONS/PUBLIC EDUCATION PROGRAM IS THAT TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS, YOU MUST EXERCISE THEM; TO EXERCISE THEM, YOU MUST KNOW THEM. WE INCREASE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF CIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES BY SPONSORING FORUMS AND MEETINGS, PREPARING AND DISTRIBUTING EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS ON CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS BOTH ONLINE AND OFF, WORKING IN COALITION WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS ON ISSUES OF MUTUAL CONCERN, ENGAGING SUPPORTERS THROUGH EMAIL MARKETING AND ONLINE MOBILIZATION, FOSTERING DIALOGUE ON CIVIL LIBERTIES ACROSS SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, AND SPEAKING REGULARLY TO THE MEDIA ON CIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES.

  Expenses $300,979

• THE ACLUF-TN LEGAL PROGRAM AIMS TO PROTECT AND ADVANCE CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES THROUGHOUT THE STATE. WE MEET THIS GOAL BY PROVIDING GUIDANCE, ENGAGING IN ADVOCACY, AND (AS A LAST RESORT) LITIGATION. WE PROVIDE LEGAL REPRESENTATION, FREE OF CHARGE, FOR INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS WHOSE CIVIL LIBERTIES HAVE BEEN THREATENED OR DENIED. WE ALSO SUBMIT FRIEND-OF-THE-COURT BRIEFS IN APPROPRIATE CASES. THROUGH SUCH LITIGATION, OUR GOAL IS TO PROVIDE LEGAL REPRESENTATION IN INDIVIDUAL CASES AND ESTABLISH LEGAL PRECEDENTS THAT WILL BE OF ENDURING VALUE IN TENNESSEE AND ACROSS THE NATION.

  Expenses $505,389 · Revenue $132,318

• THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DEPARTMENT'S ROLE WITHIN ACLUF-TN IS TO INTEGRATE OUR MISSION WITH COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE STATE, COLLABORATING WITH PARTNERS AND INDIVIDUALS TO BUILD A MOVEMENT AND MOBILIZE IN SUPPORT OF BOLD, IMPACTFUL CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS CHANGES IN OUR STATE. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ADVOCACY AT ACLU-TN CENTERS THE EXPERIENCES AND LEADERSHIP OF DIRECTLY IMPACTED PEOPLE WHILE ENSURING THAT NON-IMPACTED ALLIES PARTICIPATE IN EFFECTIVE AND SUBSTANTIVE ACTION.

  Expenses $438,384

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $2,964,957

  Expenses

  $1,860,512

  Contributions

  $2,749,010

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,918,224

  Expenses

  $1,510,175

  Contributions

  $1,790,147

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,196,957

  Expenses

  $1,261,872

  Contributions

  $1,161,381

  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

  $1,719,354

  Expenses

  $1,261,186

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,599,362

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,630,201

  Expenses

  $840,084

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,081,931

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,409,151

  Expenses

  $883,911

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,216,646

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $921,598

  Expenses

  $899,262

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,711,963

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $921,598

  Expenses

  $867,134

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,756,437

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,251,135

  Expenses

  $795,952

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,783,220

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $767,472

  Expenses

  $628,864

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,442,556

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $683,136

  Expenses

  $572,041

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,044,543

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $636,457

  Expenses

  $641,307

  Assets (EOY)

  $925,569

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $558,089

  Expenses

  $665,837

  Assets (EOY)

  $923,338

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC

  $1,417,000

  2024 · AFFILIATE PROGRAM

• AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC

  $387,420

  2022 · Affiliate Program

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $125,650

  2024 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• THE COMMUNITY FDN OF MIDDLE TN INC

  $100,000

  2024 · 2024 SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $34,330

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• THE COMMUNITY FDN OF MIDDLE TN INC

  $25,000

  2023 · TO SUPPORT THE ONGOING GREAT WORK OF THE ACLU

• THE COMMUNITY FDN OF MIDDLE TN INC

  $25,000

  2024 · TO SUPPORT THE ONGOING IMPORTANT WORK OF THE ACLU FOUNDATION IN TENNESSEE

• THE COMMUNITY FDN OF MIDDLE TN INC

  $25,000

  2022 · TO SUPPORT THE CONTINUING IMPORTANT WORK OF THE FOUNDATION.

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $20,471

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC

  $17,200

  2024 · GENERAL OPERATIONAL SUPPORT

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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