Tennessee · Nonprofit
THE COLLECTIVE BLUEPRINT
THE COLLECTIVE BLUEPRINT (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,280,098 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($6,185,600). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $8.3M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What The Collective Blueprint does
Mission
Our mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Collective Blueprint is tcb's comprehensive, career-focused model for increasing economic mobility among young adults in memphis. Tcb identifies in-demand, living-wage career pathways and recruits participants, called leaders, into an integrated program that combines professional development, technical training, personalized coaching, and wraparound support. Leaders complete more than 110 hours of workforce readiness training, access vetted hard-skills pathways such as software development, it hardware, and certified nursing assistant programs, receive bi-weekly coaching, free therapy, and a monthly stipend, and gain direct connections to employers for internships and full-time roles. Beyond individual outcomes, the blueprint addresses the systemic barriers that limit opportunity by building coalitions, shaping citywide economic development strategies, and advancing a policy agenda rooted in economic justice. Founded by and for young adults, tcb centers those most proximate to inequity and has achieved a 70% completion rate and 150% wage growth among alumni, demonstrating a scalable model for local and national change.
$2,179,971 spentof which $280,000 as grants$33,972 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,179,971.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $2.7M to $3.2M (+21%).
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 100% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of THE COLLECTIVE BLUEPRINT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Sarah O Lockridge-Steckel
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Brandon Arrindell
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $1.5M → $1.1M.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 THE COLLECTIVE BLUEPRINT’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
THE COLLECTIVE BLUEPRINT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 THE COLLECTIVE BLUEPRINT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 91% · 2022 88% · 2023 67% — 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 THE COLLECTIVE BLUEPRINT's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 54% 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
76% of THE COLLECTIVE BLUEPRINT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.0M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
THE COLLECTIVE BLUEPRINT is better cushioned than half of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE COLLECTIVE BLUEPRINT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $448k on record.
- Delta Regional Authority$448k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE COLLECTIVE BLUEPRINT
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 THE COLLECTIVE BLUEPRINT: 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 THE COLLECTIVE BLUEPRINT?
- THE COLLECTIVE BLUEPRINT (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,280,098 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($6,185,600). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE COLLECTIVE BLUEPRINT have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $8,280,098 in grants to THE COLLECTIVE BLUEPRINT, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COLLECTIVE BLUEPRINT?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,185,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COLLECTIVE BLUEPRINT 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 13 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