Recycle and Reinvest
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832366325
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Nashville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6152062080
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $60,501
- Expenses
- $72,836
- Assets
- $1,330
- Liabilities
- $8,328
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THOMAS CURRY JR (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- THOMAS CURRY JR (PRESIDENT)
- JOSEPH BAZELAIS (BOARD CHAIR)
- AMANDA KEY (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
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.
What it reported doing in 2025
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 infrastructure -protect the block environmental health, air quality, heat resilience, and public health awareness -feed the block storytelling, art, reflection, and civic engagement through shared culture outcomes participants gain environmental literacy, workforce readiness, and leadership skills. Communities experience cleaner spaces, stronger cohesion, and youth-led environmental stewardship.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.1%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 43.3%; rating input score 43
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -20.4%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 6.26; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.3%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 52.1% of revenue deployed · 43.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $32K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.