Missouri · Nonprofit
THE COLLECTIVE THREAD
THE COLLECTIVE THREAD (Missouri) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $573,864 to it, the largest being THE FOUR LEAF CLOVER FOUNDATION ($337,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $251k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $574k
- Net assets
- $0
What The Collective Thread does
Mission
The Collective Thread is expanding our current sewing school to provide needed skills training and employment opportunities to immigrant and refugee women in St. Louis by adding commercial sewing classes to our current curriculum. We will provide industrial sewing training for 60 women per year, who will have employment opportunities at identified businesses in need of sewers in St. Louis.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Collective Thread completed the year shutting down their sewing school. The Collective Thread provided needed skills training and employment opportunities to immigrant and refugee women in St. Louis by providing commercial sewing classes. Our small batch facility employed 10 women to sew commercially for local clothing brands in year 2024. Over the last decade, our team has made more than 35 trips to East Africa to teach women to sew. Our facilities in the US and abroad support local economies and help women out of poverty through employment.
$404,168 spent$90,096 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $404,168.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $341k to $0 (−100%).
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.
64% of THE COLLECTIVE THREAD’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $1k → $138k.
8 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 THREAD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 funders by total. 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 THREAD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
39% 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 THREAD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 97% · 2019 100% · 2020 67% · 2021 81% · 2022 93% · 2023 36% — 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
60% of THE COLLECTIVE THREAD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
THE COLLECTIVE THREAD draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $217k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 THREAD's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE COLLECTIVE THREAD
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE COLLECTIVE THREAD: 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 THREAD?
- THE COLLECTIVE THREAD (Missouri) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $573,864 to it, the largest being THE FOUR LEAF CLOVER FOUNDATION ($337,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE COLLECTIVE THREAD have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $573,864 in grants to THE COLLECTIVE THREAD, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COLLECTIVE THREAD?
- THE FOUR LEAF CLOVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $337,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COLLECTIVE THREAD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 14 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