Tennessee · Nonprofit
RECYCLE AND REINVEST
RECYCLE AND REINVEST (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $61k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $-6998
What Recycle and Reinvest does
Mission
Our mission is to cultivate the next generation of leaders through art- based programs. Stay connected as we promote sustainability and job readiness opportunities for justice-impacted youth in nashville.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Recycle & reinvests work is unified under one earth. One community.a place-based model that treats environmental health and community health as inseparable. Through b.4.l and soil soldiers, the organization addresses neighborhood-level environmental burdens while building leadership pipelines rooted in culture, education, and action. Within b.4.l: -soil soldiers serve as the youth entry point, engaging young people in land-based learning, food systems, waste reduction, and neighborhood restoration all while getting paid. -participants build environmental literacy, workforce skills, and leadership capacity. -youth progress into more stiphens / seasonal paid opportunities, community leadership roles, and b.4.l generals, who lead stewardship projects, surveys, and neighborhood action. This unified structure positions environmental education, workforce development, and public health as interconnected pathways toward leadership, economic opportunity, and neighborhood resilience. Curriculum focus areas -heal the block waste reduction, recycling, illegal dumping prevention, and community cleanups -grow the block (soil soldiers) soil health, food systems, gardening, and green…
$31,523 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $31,523.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Joseph Bazelais
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of RECYCLE AND REINVEST’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
RECYCLE AND REINVEST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 RECYCLE AND REINVEST.
“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
RECYCLE AND REINVEST draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states in all.
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.
Against its field
RECYCLE AND REINVEST receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like RECYCLE AND REINVEST
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RECYCLE AND REINVEST: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RECYCLE AND REINVEST?
- RECYCLE AND REINVEST (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RECYCLE AND REINVEST have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $55,000 in grants to RECYCLE AND REINVEST, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RECYCLE AND REINVEST?
- NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RECYCLE AND REINVEST 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing