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Allies for Community Business Inc

Allies for community business is a nonprofit that provides the capital, coaching, and connections entrepreneurs need to grow great businesses that create jobs and wealth in their communities.

$902k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Community Improvement$3.3MPhilanthropy$225k
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 18 grants below total $495,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $901,683 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $406,683 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k16 grants · $320k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOREFRONT$125,000
CROWN FAMILY PHILANTHROPIES$50,000
FATSO HARD KITCHEN LLC$20,000
A WARNER IDEA LLC$20,000
SMALLER THINGS$20,000
PHILLIPE C'EST BON- POLOMBIA$20,000
VIETFIVE LLC$20,000
LIL' GOURMETS LLC$20,000
CHOCOLAT UZMA$20,000
LAOS TO YOUR HOUSE$20,000
STORY & REACH COMMUNICATIONS$20,000
SPA IN YOUR SPACE MOBILE SPA INC$20,000
3 NET WISE INC$20,000
HAPPY FACE LLC$20,000
BLDG PROJECTS$20,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JOVA COFFEE COMPANY PBC: $20k → 10%ACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND INC: $80k → 8%ASCENDUS INC: $80k → 17%STORY & REACH COMMUNICATIONS: $20k → 13%LIFE AT HOME SENIOR CARE LLC: $20k → 15%STEWARTS' CHEESECAKES: $20k → 7%FUSION NATURAL HAIR & BRAID ACADEMY: $20k → 7%CHAZERLY DESIGNS LLC: $21k → 8%LIL' GOURMETS LLC: $20k → 14%HOOPKINECT LLC: $20k → 7%IDA'S ARTISAN ICE CREAM: $21k → 14%DREAMSPRING: $80k → 14%MIDWEST AIRCRAFT DETAILERS CORP: $21k → 7%FOOD HERO: $21k → 14%DAZZLE EVENTS: $20k → 14%HOOK POINT FISHERIES: $20k → 14%LIFT FUND INC: $80k → 16%G & B FILLING STATION: $21k → 14%INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL OF NEARWEST CHICAGO: $100k → 14%SNACK BETTER LLC DBA CAROLYN'S KRISP: $21k → 14%SUGA & SPICE INC: $21k → 14%FATSO HARD KITCHEN LLC: $20k → 14%LATIN PLATE CATERING: $20k → 14%TUBBY'S TASTE LLC: $20k → 14%DOPE DRIP LLC: $20k → 14%TRIPLE A GOURMET: $20k → 14%LAOS TO YOUR HOUSE: $20k → 14%DILLY DALLY PROVISIONS: $20k → 14%PUPSTARS PET CARE LLC: $20k → 14%INSPIRE BY TYLER: $21k → 14%GROWING BOUNDLESSLY: $21k → 14%PREXODUS ENTERPRISES: $21k → 14%STITCHME LLC: $21k → 14%THE PR SHOPPE: $21k → 14%LINGUA NIGRA LLC: $21k → 14%XAYAH ENTERPRISES LLC: $21k → 14%PILLARS FASHION CLUB: $21k → 14%AFRO JOES: $21k → 14%ESSENTIAL CREATIONS: $21k → 14%FOREFRONT: $125k → 14%CROWN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%STEM GENERATION LLC: $21k → 14%CROWN FAMILY PHILANTHROPIES: $50k → 14%HOLD YOUR LUGGAGE: $21k → 14%TRINI'S TASTY PASTRIES LLC: $21k → 14%GREEN GARDEN CAFE: $21k → 14%WEST SIDE INSURANCE: $21k → 14%KRIBI COFFEE COMPANY: $21k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
NV
IN
CA
CO
DE
AZ
NM
GA
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

5%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$161k · 3 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +207% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
184

Total granted

$161k
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+207%
-16%

Still filing today

33%
3%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $445k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CF
    CROWN FAMILY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +207%
  • FH
    Food Hero L3C
    2× · 2021–2023 · $31k
  • LP
    LATIN PLATE CATERING
    2× · 2019–2021 · $30k

Funded once

  • IC
    INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL OF NEARWEST CHICAGOgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +26%
  • D
    DREAMSPRING
    one grant, 2021 · $80k · revenue -43%
  • AI
    ASCENDUS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $80k · revenue -16%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Chicago Community Loan Fund

Organization provides low-cost, flexible financing to non-profit and for-profit community development organizations for the revitalization of low and moderate income neighborhoods throughout metropolitan chicago.

Community Improvement
2
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
3
Cdc Small Business Finance Corporation

We help build inclusive and equitable communities by providing people access to the capital and opportunities they deserve.

Community Improvement
4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
5
Allies for Community Business Inc

Allies for community business is a nonprofit that provides the capital, coaching, and connections entrepreneurs need to grow great businesses that create jobs and wealth in their communities.

Community Improvement
6
Impact Capital

Impact capital is a community development financial institution that makes strategic loans in organizations, tribal entities, and housing authorities to spur community development, including affordable housing, art and cultural centers,…

Public Benefit
7
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
8
Community Reinvestment Fund Inc

To expand economic opportunity for small businesses and communities by reimagining the way capital and resources flow.

Community Improvement
9
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
10
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 is driven by…

11
Chicago Blend Group Inc

Creating a more inclusive venture capital and entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Community Improvement
12
Axiom Advancement Corporation

We exist to level the playing field in small business lending through our commitment to fair lending laws, accountability to the communities we serve and by implementing industry best practices.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accion Opportunity Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is South Chicago Dance Theatre. 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 204 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL OF NEARWEST CHICAGO — $100,000 · Other+192 more — $2,831,730 · Other+192 moreDREAMSPRING — $80,000 · Community ImprovementDREAMSPRIN…ASCENDUS INC — $80,000 · Community ImprovementASCENDUS I…LIFTFUND INC — $80,000 · Community ImprovementLIFTFUND I…ACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND INC — $80,000 · Community ImprovementACCION OPP…FOREFRONT — $125,000 · PhilanthropyCROWN FAMILY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropySOUTH CHICAGO DANCE THEATRE — $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,931,730Community Improvement$320,000Philanthropy$225,000Arts & Culture$20,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOREFRONT — $125,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetINDUSTRIAL COUNCIL OF NEARWEST CHICAGO — $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCROWN FAMILY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDREAMSPRING — $80,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASCENDUS INC — $80,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIFTFUND INC — $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND INC — $80,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTH CHICAGO DANCE THEATRE — $20,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

  • Who funds FOREFRONT
  • Who funds INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL OF NEARWEST CHICAGO
  • Who funds CROWN FAMILY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DREAMSPRING
  • Who funds ASCENDUS INC
  • Who funds LIFTFUND INC
  • Who funds ACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND INC
  • Who funds SOUTH CHICAGO DANCE THEATRE

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)IL18.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) · Women's Business Development Center · Wells Fargo Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Allies for Community Business Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 204 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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