Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 591707872
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2007
- Location
- Nashville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6153101121
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $113,049
- Expenses
- $89,389
- Assets
- $122,234
- Liabilities
- $16,154
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Elizabeth Millsaps (President)
People named in this filing
- Jacob Baggett (Executive Dir.)
- Elizabeth Millsaps (President)
- Jesse Walker (Secretary)
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
Engage college students in government and public service.
What it reported doing in 2024
Host annual TISL mock student government conference at TN Capitol Building, 300+ students and advisors attend.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 43
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 39.3%; rating input score 39
- Program expense ratio: 49.8%; rating input score 50
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: 20.9%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.37; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 44.7%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.8% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 39.3% of revenue deployed · 49.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $44K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 39/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.