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Accion Opportunity Fund Inc

Accion opportunity fund.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$5.5MEmployment$60k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$1,000,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$1,000,000
LEARN WITH AOF FOUNDATION$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $35k → 20%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $25k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 7 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
1

Total granted

$5.5M
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+63%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’22’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’21’22’25
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesEmploymentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AO
    ACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
    5× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +198%
  • AI
    ASCENDUS INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +32%
  • D
    DREAMSPRING
    2× · 2017–2018 · $970k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • P
    PEOPLEFUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +63%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Fresno Community Development Financial Institution dba Access Plus Capital

Access plus capital is nonprofit small business lender and service provider with the mission to eliminate economic barriers to financial success through fair and equitable community investment.

Public Benefit
2
Womenventure

To empower women to achieve their economic goals by building profitable and sustainable businesses that transform communities.

Community Improvement
3
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven by three…

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4
Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs Inc

Access to capital for entrepreneurs, inc. (ace), is a nonprofit organization that provides loans to start and grow businesses. ace is the largest georgia-based community development financial institution (cdfi) focused on small businesses.…

Community Improvement
5
Mi Casa Resource Center

Advancing economic prosperity of the latino community.

Human Services
6
Womens Center for Economic Opportunity

Our mission is to elevate & empower under-resourced business owners, leaders and innovators with pathways to the capital customers, contracts and connections needed to become financially secure

Education
7
Root Capital Inc

Root capital seeks to increase incomes and stabilize employment for farmers in africa, south-east asia, and latin america. root capital does this through a proven channel: support for agricultural businesses that collect and market the…

International
8
First Community Capital Inc

First Community Capital, Inc. (FCCI) is a certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) dedicated to expanding access to affordable capital and technical assistance for small businesses and individuals, with a focus on low-…

Employment
9
Working Solutions Cdfi

Working solutions cdfi is the first to believe in start-up and early-stage businesses by providing diverse entrepreneurs with affordable capital, customized business consulting, and community connections to increase economic opportunity in…

Human Services
10
Ladies Who Launch Inc
Education
11
Main Street Launch

Our mission is to create economic opportunity by empowering entrepreneurs.Through innovative partnerships we provide business owners with capital, education, and relationships that allow them to flourish. Our collaborative approach helps…

Community Improvement
12
Accion Opportunity Fund Community Development

Accion opportunity fund's mission is to deliver affordable capital and responsible financial solutions to underserved entrepreneurs and communities, with a special focus on low-income people, people of color, and women.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ascendus Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hot Bread Kitchen Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $1,553,190 · Community ImprovementACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTASCENDUS INC: $1,253,642 · Community ImprovementASCENDUS INCDREAMSPRING: $970,152 · Community ImprovementDREAMSPRINGALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC: $919,902 · Community ImprovementALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INCACCESSITY: $649,075 · Community ImprovementACCESSITY+1 more: $25,000 · Community ImprovementHOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD: $60,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC: $50,000 · EmploymentLEARN WITH AOF FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Education
Community Improvement$5,370,961Human Services$60,000Employment$50,000Education$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $1,553,190 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetASCENDUS INC: $1,253,642 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetDREAMSPRING: $970,152 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC: $919,902 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetACCESSITY: $649,075 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetHOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD: $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLEARN WITH AOF FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetPEOPLEFUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Opportunity Finance N…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Great Rivers Communit…The Gina Harman Famil…Citi FoundationMufg Union Bank Found…Wells Fargo FoundationLocal Initiatives Sup…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Opportunity Finance NetworkDC15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Opportunity Finance Network · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Great Rivers Community Trust · The Gina Harman Family Foundation Inc · Citi Foundation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · Wells Fargo Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Accion Opportunity Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Accion Opportunity Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Center for Women & Enterprise Inc: 27% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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