Tennessee · Nonprofit
COLAB
COLAB (Tennessee) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,454,999 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORP ($1,779,999). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COLAB has grown faster than half of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Artsbuildshared funderslocal
- Nc Ideaportfolio match
- Cooperative Development Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 14% · 2023 36% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of COLAB’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $50k → $544k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $95k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money COLAB raised.
From the IRS filings of COLAB’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
COLAB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
52% 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 COLAB.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 53% · 2020 52% · 2021 77% · 2022 38% · 2023 56% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
40% of COLAB's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
98% of COLAB's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Artsbuildshared funderslocalTN · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · funds 37 organizations near you
- Nc Ideaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cooperative Development Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Democracy at Work Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vilcap Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Memphis Bioworks Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Missouri Technology Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Common Futureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Howard Fundshared funderslocalTN · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · funds 31 organizations near you
- Weldon F Osborne Foundation Incshared funderslocalTN · backs 62 organizations that share your funders · funds 97 organizations near you
- Riverview Foundation Incshared fundersTN · backs 33 organizations that share your funders
- Hamico Incshared funderslocalTN · backs 50 organizations that share your funders · funds 69 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like COLAB
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLAB: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds COLAB?
- COLAB (Tennessee) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,454,999 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORP ($1,779,999). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLAB have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $3,454,999 in grants to COLAB, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLAB?
- TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORP is the largest funder on record, with $1,779,999 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLAB 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing