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THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDAT ION INC

EIN 62-1844686 KNOXVILLE, TN

Revenue 2023
$315,326,525
Expenses 2023
$199,164,553

Program services were 72.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B11
Classification
1000
Street
1525 UNIVERSITY AVENUE ROOM 223

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).

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.

  • RONALD E FRIESON

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ALAN WILSON

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PHILIP A WENK

    PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LEE ANN ADAMS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • K JEANNIE BEAUCHAMP

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • ISAAC BENNETT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • KAREN BOWLING

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RANDAL D BOYD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • DOUGLAS A BROWN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • C DOUGLAS HANEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JUDITH HERBERT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • RENEE IACONA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DEBORAH A INGRAM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • EMILY C LOVE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHANEA A MCKINNEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • J PHENISE POOLE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • ARTHUR L SPARKS JR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CHARLES A WAGNER III

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RICHARD WARREN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DR YANCY FREEMAN

    CHANCELLOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • DR PETER F BUCKLEY

    CHANCELLOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • KERRY W WITCHER

    PRESIDENT &

    Total calculated
    $460,539
    From this org
    $387,308
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $73,231
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $337,598
    Bonus
    $49,710
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $38,205
    Nontaxable benefits
    $35,026
    Filer's total
    $460,539

  • ADAM HELLER

    TREASURER &

    Total calculated
    $294,127
    From this org
    $239,015
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $55,112
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $215,390
    Bonus
    $23,625
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $21,920
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33,192
    Filer's total
    $294,127

  • RACHAEL R LEBLANC

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $121,445
    From this org
    $76,806
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $44,639
    Hours/week
    40

  • JAMES F OBEAR

    DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $273,085
    From this org
    $217,173
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $55,912
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $197,679
    Bonus
    $19,494
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $22,978
    Nontaxable benefits
    $32,934
    Filer's total
    $273,085

The first 25 listed. 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 — 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
    $315,326,525
    Expenses
    $199,164,553
    Contributions
    $252,324,884
    Grants paid
    $95,900,593
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $211,789,117
    Expenses
    $159,866,782
    Contributions
    $149,486,966
    Grants paid
    $76,670,452

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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC

    $18,839 raised

    2023 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$35,208 to charity

  • RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC

    $22,720 raised

    2022 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$30,043 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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 10 September 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.