The Family Action of Tennessee Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204998740
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Franklin, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6155912090
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $70,924
- Expenses
- $150,450
- Assets
- $255,319
- 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
- DAVID FOWLER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- WILLIAM D MORGAN (CHAIRMAN/PRESIDENT/TREASURER)
People named in this filing
- DAVID FOWLER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- WILLIAM D MORGAN (CHAIRMAN/PRESIDENT/TREASURER)
- GREGG LAWRENCE (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To equip tennesseans and their public officials to effectively promote and defend a culture that values the traditional family, for the sake of the common good.
What it reported doing in 2025
Monthly, fact distributes a print letter to approximately 1500 tennesseans (and a few former tennesseans) who are concerned about the legal and political issues that impact marriage, family, life, and religious liberty.fact publishes a weekly email, five minutes for families, reaching on average around 15,000 people per week. It provides an original commentary on current events related to marriage, family, life, religious liberty, or constitutional government.fact's president met with and provided prepared materials to various legislators in conjuction with the legislative session. Fact's legal and policy personnel provide educational and briefing materials throughout the year for use by alliance for law & liberty for which fact is reimbursed. Fact also provides a platform for an educational podcast called god, law, & liberty, and channels by which it is distributed.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue 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: 14
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 18%; rating input score 18
- Program expense ratio: 8.5%; rating input score 8
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -112.1%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.7; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.6%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 18% of revenue deployed · 8.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 18/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.