Tennessee Action Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462374043
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Brentwood, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6154918523
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $138,921
- Expenses
- $122,279
- Assets
- $368,185
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JACQUELINE MCDONALD (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JACQUELINE MCDONALD (PRESIDENT)
- MAY BENNETT (SECRETARY)
- TOM THOMPSON (BOARD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide pregnant women with options and information, free of charge, to make an informed choice about her pregnancy, by providing her educational information, an ultrasound of her unborn baby, and counseling for the new life she is carrying and to support decisions for life, by providing child necessities for mothers, families and children in foster care.
What it reported doing in 2025
Helping hands: provides attractive, heavy-duty duffle bags to the Tennessee department of children's services for provision to each child entering foster care in Tennessee so that the child's personal effects can be gathered and handled respectfully, demonstrating that the child is valuable. This provides an alternative to black garbage bags. Tennessee action council purchases the duffle bags in increments of 5,000, which supplies enough bags for twelve months. Tac also supports other activities to improve foster care including efforts aimed at reducing dcs turnover, responding to needs of at-risk children through careportal and providing recreational and educational items for foster children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.4%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 81%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.01; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.4% of revenue deployed · 81% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $99K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.