Tennessee Grocers Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 621384840
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Nashville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6158890136
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $947,506
- Expenses
- $964,011
- Assets
- $199,366
- Liabilities
- $453,212
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROB IKARD (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ROB IKARD (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $115,715 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The associations' primary purpose is to maintain a high standard of integrity and efficiency in the conduct of retail grocery business, foster and support the welfare of those businesses, and to disseminate useful information in the best interest of the food retailers to the public.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.7%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.27; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $116K · 18 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $206K reported
- Consistency: 11 of 13 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.