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TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

EIN 59-1777911 COOKEVILLE, TN

Largest nonprofits in Tennessee

Revenue 2023
$13,769,757
Expenses 2023
$12,861,723

Program services were 97.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B110
Classification
1200
Street
UNIV ADVAN DERRYBERRY HALL

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 · 2023

Mission

THE TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION IS A NON-PROFIT 501(C)(3) CORPORATION WHOSE PURPOSE IS TO PROVIDE GUIDANCE AND ASSISTANCE FOR A PROGRAM OF PRIVATE GIFT SUPPORT FOR TENNESSEE TECH. MORE SPECIFICALLY ITS PURPOSES ARE TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM AT TENNESSEE TECH; PROVIDE ADVICE, COUNSEL, AND ASSISTANCE TO THE PRESIDENT ON STRATEGIC ISSUES THAT IMPACT THE DIRECTION AND FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY; ENCOURAGE, RECOGNIZE, AND REWARD OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS BY FACULTY, STAFF, STUDENTS, ALUMNI, AND FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE TECH; AND RECEIVE AND ADMINISTER PRIVATE FUNDS WHICH ARE CONTRIBUTED TO TENNESSEE TECH AND IN THOSE CASES WHERE FUNDS ARE GIVEN WITH RESTRICTIONS, TO FOLLOW AND ABIDE BY THE PROVISIONS OF THE RESTRICTIONS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

CONTRIBUTE TO THE GENERAL WELFARE OF SOCIETY AND TTU AS A PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION. PROVIDE PRIVATE GIFT SUPPORT FOR ANNUAL AND CAPITAL PURPOSES AND PROMOTE TTU.

  • TRANSFERRED FUNDS TO TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOR THE SUPPORT OF VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS.

    Expenses $7,244,910 · Grants $7,244,910

  • PROVIDED FUNDS FOR SCHOLARSHIPS AND SUPPORT OF TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY.

    Expenses $3,200,764 · Grants $3,200,764 · Revenue $644,952

  • MADE PURCHASES, PAID FOR TRAVEL, AND PERFORMED MAINTENANCE ON BEHALF OF TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS, PER DONOR REQUESTS.

    Expenses $2,105,395

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Alfonzo Alexander

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Dr Claire Stinson

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $261,279
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $228,185
    Other
    $33,094
    Hours/week
    3.7 + 33.8 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $228,137 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $48 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $25,783 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $7,311 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $261,279 related

  • Dr Kevin Braswell

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $245,772
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $205,310
    Other
    $40,462
    Hours/week
    18.7 + 18.7 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $205,239 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $71 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $21,456 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $19,006 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $245,772 related

  • Dr Philip Oldham

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $530,794
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $477,090
    Other
    $53,704
    Hours/week
    3.7 + 33.8 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $477,032 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $58 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $34,698 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $19,006 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $530,794 related

  • M Dianne Murphy

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Amy New

    Vice Chair-Elect

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Ashraf Islam

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Chris Privon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • David Cooley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Fred Lowery

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • John Milne

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • John W Rose

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mary Graves

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Nathan Burton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Nathan Tudor

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Teresa Chasteen-Dunn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Thomas H Jones

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Trudy Harper

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Zaire Mattox

    Student Member

    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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $13,769,757
    Expenses
    $12,861,723
    Contributions
    $8,365,087
    Grants paid
    $10,445,674
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $10,635,899
    Expenses
    $9,033,896
    Contributions
    $6,486,123
    Grants paid
    $5,367,538

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

  • 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
    $26,869,874
    Expenses
    $8,022,927
    Assets (EOY)
    $130,038,853

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,032,492
    Expenses
    $6,770,506
    Assets (EOY)
    $123,537,262

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,761,158
    Expenses
    $5,698,627
    Assets (EOY)
    $101,900,329

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,914,701
    Expenses
    $6,965,696
    Assets (EOY)
    $97,372,063

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,698,861
    Expenses
    $8,112,304
    Assets (EOY)
    $91,061,012

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

  • Tennessee Technological University

    $7,244,910

    2023 Support

  • TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

    $2,000,450

    2022 SUPPORT

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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.

Declared on its 2023 return

  • TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

    EDUCATION · TN

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 2023 return

  • TECH FARMS LLC

    AGRICULTURE · TN · income $501,296 · assets $7,990,872

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.