Tennessee Association of Community Action
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 621255151
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Knoxville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 8655463500
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $141,507
- Expenses
- $130,887
- Assets
- $173,038
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JASON STEWART (President)
People named in this filing
- LELAR ROYSDEN (Director)
- TAMMYE PIRIE (Director)
- DEMETRIUS RAMSEY (1ST VICE PRES.)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote the cause of the poor, elderly & handicapped.
What it reported doing in 2024
Tennessee association of community action (taca) is an organization dedicated to solving the problems of poverty within the state of Tennessee. Taca strives to promote the causes of tennesseans that are poor, elderly and disabled; to promote the interest and increase the effectiveness of member agencies; and to encourage the professional development of individual members.taca is the membership organization for the 20 community action agencies (caas) in the state of Tennessee. In collaboration with business, education, faith-based, healthcare, non-profit, federal, state and local partners, agencies produce outcomes to move individuals and families forward to self sufficiency and bring changes in local communities.taca establishes and maintains local, state, and national partnerships that help customers of member agencies to achieve their full economic and social potential. Taca conducts results-oriented management and accountability (roma) training through out Tennessee.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.5%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 7.5%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.32; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 48%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $131K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 21 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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 53/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.