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LEADERSHIP TENNESSEE INC

EIN 87-2004805 BRENTWOOD, TN

Revenue 2024
$680,387
Expenses 2024
$647,854

Program services were 78.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W99
Classification
2000
Street
813 FOXBORO CT

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

Mission

LEADERSHIP TENNESSEE FOSTERS COLLABORATIVE, NON-PARTISAN DIALOGUE ON ISSUES OF STATE IMPORTANCE, BY CONNECTING AND DEPLOYING A NETWORK OF DIVERSE LEADERS AND ENGAGED CITIZENS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

FOSTERS COLLABORATIVE, NON-PARTISAN DIALOGUE ON STATE ISSUES, CONNECTING NETWORK OF LEADERS

  • SIGNATURE PROGRAM EACH YEAR, FEWER THAN 50 TOP BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS FROM ACROSS TENNESSEE ARE SELECTED TO JOIN A 10-MONTH IMMERSIVE SIGNATURE PROGRAM. THIS PROGRAM OFFERS AN IN-DEPTH EXPLORATION OF KEY ISSUES FACING THE STATE, FOSTERS STATEWIDE NETWORKING, AND ENCOURAGES COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING. PARTICIPANTS MEET IN EACH OF TENNESSEE'S THREE GRAND DIVISIONS, WITH SESSIONS CO-DEVELOPED BY STAFF AND ALUMNI, FEATURING VOLUNTEER LEADERS WHO GUIDE DISCUSSIONS ON CRITICAL TOPICS. THE PROGRAM ADVANCES THE ORGANIZATION'S EDUCATIONAL MISSION BY DEEPENING PARTICIPANTS' UNDERSTANDING OF STATE ISSUES, REGIONAL DIVERSITY, AND BUILDING A STRONG STATEWIDE SUPPORT NETWORK.

    Expenses $276,759 · Revenue $234,780

  • LEADERSHIP TENNESSEE NEXT (LT NEXT) LT NEXT IS THE ONLY STATEWIDE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM FOR EARLY TO MID-CAREER PROFESSIONALS. LT NEXT SELECTS APPROXIMATELY 30 MID-CAREER LEADERS TO ENGAGE IN A FOUR MONTH IMMERSIVE COHORT THAT FOSTERS CROSS-STATE AND CROSS-SECTOR NETWORKS TWICE A YEAR. PARTICIPANTS ENGAGE WITH SIGNATURE PROGRAM MEMBERS, EXPLORE TENNESSEE-SPECIFIC ISSUES, AND DEVELOP PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS. THE ORGANIZATION'S STAFF CO-DEVELOP SESSION AGENDAS WITH ALUMNI AND CURRENT MEMBERS, RECRUITING STATE AND NATIONAL LEADERS TO GUIDE DISCUSSIONS. SESSIONS TAKE PLACE ACROSS TENNESSEE'S THREE GRAND DIVISIONS IN VARIED LOCATIONS, ADVANCING THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION BY PREPARING PARTICIPANTS TO SERVE THEIR COMMUNITIES AND PROFESSIONS EFFECTIVELY.AN INCREASE IN NOMINATIONS FOR BOTH LEADERSHIP TENNESSEE'S SIGNATURE AND LT NEXT PROGRAMS REFLECTS THE GROWING IMPACT AND RECOGNITION OF OUR PROGRAMMING. THIS SURGE IN INTEREST UNDERSCORES OUR COMMITMENT TO EXPANDING REACH AND RELEVANCE, WITH A CONTINUED FOCUS ON ENGAGING RURAL AND SUBURBAN COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT EACH PROGRAM YEAR.

    Expenses $230,151 · Revenue $75,100

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • MICHAEL ANASTASI

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRANDON GIBSON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LAURA BERLIND

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID GOLDEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CALVIN ANDERSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JANET AYERS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRUCE HARTMANN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK WHITE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTI BRANSCOM

    DIRECTOR (START 7/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALFRED DEGRAFINREID II

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $167,000
    From this org
    $167,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $167,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $167,000

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
    $680,387
    Expenses
    $647,854
    Contributions
    $368,785
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $622,570
    Expenses
    $654,378
    Contributions
    $253,607
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $514,684
    Expenses
    $526,995
    Contributions
    $226,581
    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
    $516,919
    Expenses
    $167,028
    Assets (EOY)
    $350,363

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.

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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.