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The Collective Blueprint

Our mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.

$280k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS$75,000
MEMPHIS MEDICAL DISTRICT COLLABORATIVE$55,000
MOORE TECH$25,000
CODECREW$25,000
TECH901$25,000
AGAPE CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES INC$25,000
THE WORKS INC$25,000
GOODWILL EXCEL CENTERS MIDSOUTH INC$25,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 19%SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS: $75k → 17%MOORE TECH: $25k → 17%TECH901: $25k → 17%AGAPE CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $25k → 17%MEMPHIS MEDICAL DISTRICT COLLABORATIVE: $55k → 17%CODECREW: $25k → 17%GOODWILL EXCEL CENTERS MIDSOUTH INC: $25k → 17%THE WORKS INC: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Mayor's Institute for Excellence in Government Inc

Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee

Public Benefit
2
The Collective Blueprint

Our mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.

Employment
3
Memphis Academy of Science and Engineeri

To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community

Education
4
My City Rides

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.

Employment
5
Mississippi Coding Academies

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.

Science & Tech
6
Memphis Urban League Inc

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.

Human Services
7
Memphis Goodwill Industries Inc

Building a better community by helping persons with disabilities and disadvantages achieve and maintain employment for a better quality of life.

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8
City Leadership

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…

Public Benefit
9
Theatre Memphis

To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
10
Creative Works

Creative works is organized to accelerate cultural and economic change by focusing on connecting, inspiring and educating the memphis creative community.

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11
Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce

To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.

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12
Tennessee Career Academy

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodwill Excel Center Midsouth Inc; the most unlike its peers is Codecrew. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOODWILL EXCEL CENTER MIDSOUTH INC: $25,000 · EducationGOODWILL EXCEL CENTER MIDSOUTH INCWILLIAM R MOORE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $25,000 · EducationWILLIAM R MOORE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGYCODECREW: $25,000 · EducationCODECREWTECH901: $25,000 · EducationTECH901SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropySLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INCMDCDC INC: $55,000 · Community ImprovementMDCDC INCAGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $25,000 · OtherAGAPE CHIL…The Works Inc: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Works …
Education$100,000Philanthropy$75,000Community Improvement$55,000Other$25,000Housing & Shelter$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGOODWILL EXCEL CENTER MIDSOUTH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCODECREW: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTECH901: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Collective Blueprint funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Collective Blueprint. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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