Tennessee · Nonprofit
Black Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis
Black Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis (Tennessee) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $741,167 to it, the largest being Annie E Casey Foundation Inc ($175,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $443k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $741k
- Net assets
- $160k
What Black Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis does
Mission
The Black Clergy Collaborative of Memphis is committed to expressing the voice of the Black Church and supporting its resurgence as a catalyst for social justice. We help our members to work at the intersection of theology and social justice, taking action on an agenda to address
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Health Equity Education and Information Promote the expansion of Medicaid by engaging and educating leaders and members of the faith community on disparities in health care and the need to close the coverage gap.The Framers Market plays a vital role in promoting sustainable agriculture, supporting local businesses, and fostering community engagement in a local food system that operates for the public benefit.
$68,387 spent$105,000 earned by the program22% of program spendingJuvenile Justice Research and Education
$24,074 spent$100,000 earned by the program8% of program spendingHousing Research, Education and Community Organizing It is a multi-year campaign designed to conduct research, raise awareness, tell renters stories, and explore policy and structural changes to address the rental housing crisis in Memphis.
$225,286 spent$231,500 earned by the program71% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $317,747.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $95k to $225k (+137%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of Black Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $20k → $122k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Black Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Black Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
69% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Black Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 50% · 2022 33% · 2023 61% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Black Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $175k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Black Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,668 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,668 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Black Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Black Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis?
- Black Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis (Tennessee) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $741,167 to it, the largest being Annie E Casey Foundation Inc ($175,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Black Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $741,167 in grants to Black Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Black Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis?
- Annie E Casey Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Black Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing