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The Collective Blueprint
Our mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS | $75,000 |
| MEMPHIS MEDICAL DISTRICT COLLABORATIVE | $55,000 |
| THE WORKS INC | $25,000 |
| CODECREW | $25,000 |
| GOODWILL EXCEL CENTERS MIDSOUTH INC | $25,000 |
| AGAPE CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES INC | $25,000 |
| MOORE TECH | $25,000 |
| TECH901 | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 0% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee
To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
Our mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.
Our charter is to offer a nontraditional path to create new and diverse software professionals and offer improved economic opportunity for mississippians, particularly the disadvantaged and underserved communities.
To be the top-rated provider of world-ready graduates in the south by combining high-performance core curriculum with career-focused training and experiences.
To enable and empower african-americans and other minorities in underserved communities to achieve their highest human potential and secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.
My city rides makes reliable transportation affordable and ownership possible for those in the workforce with limited means but unlimited potential, increasing opportunity for everyone.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Creative works is organized to accelerate cultural and economic change by focusing on connecting, inspiring and educating the memphis creative community.
To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.
To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.
City leadership's mission is to recruit, develop, and catalyze leaders for the benefit of the city of memphis. the organization was founded in order to maximize the leadership capital and potential of memphis. city leadership strives to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodwill Excel Center Midsouth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mdcdc Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Slingshot Memphis Inc · The Urban Child Institute · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Collective Blueprint funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.