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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
25
Itemized grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
94%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$856k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$135,306
Organizations funded a year
3 to 134
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$42M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 94% of the organizations Allies for Community Business Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 90% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving25$856k96%
FY202418$495k94%
FY202343$902k98%
FY20223$60k100%
FY2021134$1.9M99%
FY20199$180kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Community Improvement$3.3MPhilanthropy$225k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
NV
IN
CA
CO
DE
AZ
NM
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Crown Family Foundation$150,00030%
The Fawohodie Foundation$135,3061n/a
Forefront$125,00011%
Legal Aid for New Entrepreneurs Inc$103,907168%
Industrial Council of Nearwest Chicago$100,00011%
Outwest Gallery and Cafe$95,8501n/a
Dreamspring$80,00010%
Accion Opportunity Fund Inc$80,00011%
Liftfund Inc$80,00010%
Ascendus Inc$80,00011%
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All grantees of Allies for Community Business Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Crown Family Foundation$150,00030%
The Fawohodie Foundation$135,3061n/a
Forefront$125,00011%
Legal Aid for New Entrepreneurs Inc$103,907168%
Industrial Council of Nearwest Chicago$100,00011%
Outwest Gallery and Cafe$95,8501n/a
Dreamspring$80,00010%
Accion Opportunity Fund Inc$80,00011%
Liftfund Inc$80,00010%
Ascendus Inc$80,00011%
Future Firm Pllc$71,3401n/a
Food Hero L3C$30,5102n/a
Latin Plate Catering$30,0002n/a
Snack Better LLC Dba Carolyn's Krisp$20,5101n/a
Inspire by Tyler$20,5101n/a
Pillars Fashion Club$20,5101n/a
Lingua Nigra LLC$20,5101n/a
Afro Joes$20,5101n/a
Growing Boundlessly$20,5101n/a
Green Garden Cafe$20,5101n/a
G & B Filling Station$20,5101n/a
Midwest Aircraft Detailers Corp$20,5101n/a
Xayah Enterprises LLC$20,5101n/a
Hold Your Luggage$20,5101n/a
Stitchme LLC$20,5101n/a
Ida Artisan Ice Cream and Treats LLC$20,5101n/a
Prexodus Enterprises$20,5101n/a
West Side Insurance$20,5101n/a
Trini's Tasty Pastries LLC$20,5101n/a
The Pr Shoppe$20,5101n/a
Chazerly Designs LLC$20,5101n/a
Kribi Coffee Company$20,5101n/a
STEM Generation LLC$20,5101n/a
Suga & Spice Inc$20,5101n/a
Essential Creations$20,5101n/a
October Lotus$20,0001n/a
Tori Prince Beauty LLC$20,0001n/a
Children Learn and Play Daycare II Inc$20,0001n/a
Magnolia Screen Printing$20,0001n/a
Fusion Natural Hair & Braid Academy$20,0001n/a
Phillipe C'Est Bon- Polombia$20,0001n/a
Tubby's Taste LLC$20,0001n/a
Nicole Jordan Catering$20,0001n/a
Esthetic Haus$20,0001n/a
Life at Home Senior Care LLC$20,0001n/a
Nooish Inc$20,0001n/a
Onigiri Kororin$20,0001n/a
Companion Candles$20,0001n/a
B Prignano Tax and Accounting Serv Vitality Tax & Advisory LLC$20,0001n/a
Guerrero Tire Shop Inc$20,0001n/a
Dazzle Events$20,0001n/a
Galvez and Valle LLC Aura Holistic and Metaphysical Well$20,0001n/a
Present Tense Bar LLC$20,0001n/a
Logan Geary$20,0001n/a
Rs Collective Inc$20,0001n/a
Pupstars Pet Care LLC$20,0001n/a
Spa in Your Space Mobile Spa Inc$20,0001n/a
Ms Jetsetter$20,0001n/a
A Warner Idea LLC$20,0001n/a
Banter Marketplace LLC$20,0001n/a
Agriculture$20,0001n/a
Windy City Catering$20,0001n/a
Sundays Catering Llceight 1 Eighty 4$20,0001n/a
Fueled by Af$20,0001n/a
Zora Digital LLC$20,0001n/a
Bldg Projects$20,0001n/a
Tidy Up Experts LLC$20,0001n/a
TNT Financial Solutions LLC$20,0001n/a
Triple a Gourmet$20,0001n/a
Chicago Monopoly Group LLC$20,0001n/a
Chocolat Uzma$20,0001n/a
I'M Hot Sauce Company$20,0001n/a
3 Net Wise Inc$20,0001n/a
Stewarts' Cheesecakes$20,0001n/a
Tm Chateau Food Products Inc$20,0001n/a
Nestor Maldonado Inc$20,0001n/a
Flavor Unit Corp Egg Rolls Etc$20,0001n/a
Happy Face LLC$20,0001n/a
Lil' Gourmets LLC$20,0001n/a
Bartleby's Ice Cream Cakes$20,0001n/a
Stellar Foods LLC$20,0001n/a
Two Sisters Catering$20,0001n/a
Fatso Hard Kitchen LLC$20,0001n/a
Dilly Dally Provisions$20,0001n/a
Lloyds Lollipop Land Daycare$20,0001n/a
Laine's Bake Shop$20,0001n/a
Lux Smarts LLC$20,0001n/a
One Group Mind LLC$20,0001n/a
Hook Point Fisheries$20,0001n/a
Story & Reach Communications$20,0001n/a
Vietfive LLC$20,0001n/a
Cynthia's Gumbo Express Inc$20,0001n/a
Laos to Your House$20,0001n/a
Toss and Spin$20,0001n/a
Chkn Box LLC$20,0001n/a
Pink Salt LLC$20,0001n/a
Kid Millionaire Corporation$20,0001n/a
Brown Suggars Balloon Designs$20,0001n/a
Jimenez Fence Corp$20,0001n/a
Gray Matter Gaming LLC$20,0001n/a
Dope Drip LLC$20,0001n/a
Love Cork Screw$20,0001n/a
Heray Spice$20,0001n/a
Prado L Construction Corp$20,0001n/a
Jacques International Language Academy$20,0001n/a
AndySunflower Cafe$20,0001n/a
South Chicago Dance Theatre$20,00016%
Mother Prepper LLC$20,0001n/a
In Touch and Motion$20,0001n/a
Jova Coffee Company Pbc$20,0001n/a
Englewood Hardware and Paint$20,0001n/a
City Wide Jani Inc$20,0001n/a
Uncle Earl's Bbq$20,0001n/a
Skyline Kitchen$20,0001n/a
Hoopkinect LLC$20,0001n/a
Tapeplay LLC$20,0001n/a
Smaller Things$20,0001n/a
Bully Bundles$20,0001n/a
Englewood Branded$20,0001n/a
Bill Welding and Fabrication LLC$20,0001n/a
Cappalletti's Enterprises LLC$10,0001n/a
Dumafe Inc$10,0001n/a
Ammi Inc$10,0001n/a
Ali Kat Design Inc$10,0001n/a
Ballinas & Camarillo Corp$10,0001n/a
Pupusa Princess LLC$10,0001n/a
Pedraza Faz Ent$10,0001n/a
Shack Eats LLC$10,0001n/a
De Mi Fogon$10,0001n/a
Old Sheepdog Brewery LLC$10,0001n/a
Back of the Yard$10,0001n/a
Lamp Enterprises Inc$10,0001n/a
Foodtopia Restaurant LLC$10,0001n/a
Orkenoy LLC$10,0001n/a
Porcelana Chocolates LLC$10,0001n/a
Lm Burger Corp$10,0001n/a
Sabor y Sazon Peruvian Restaurant LLC$10,0001n/a
Perez Hernandez$10,0001n/a
Jarabe Inc$10,0001n/a
C&C Latin-America Imports LLC$10,0001n/a
Maria Alcocer$10,0001n/a
Rico Foods Company$10,0001n/a
La Roqueta de Acapulco$10,0001n/a
Gallegos Mb 2 LLC$10,0001n/a
Eliezer Mercado$10,0001n/a
Inwood Social Corp$10,0001n/a
Luna's Food Corp$10,0001n/a
The Jibarito Stop LLC$10,0001n/a
Mad Pecker Brewing Co LLC$10,0001n/a
Flores Ortega$10,0001n/a
Carmenland LLC$10,0001n/a
Casa Azul Group Inc Dba Bistro Casa Azul$10,0001n/a
Diamond Garden Banquet Hall LLC$10,0001n/a
Ortega Family 5 Enterprises$10,0001n/a
Jarlene Corporation$10,0001n/a
Lostry LLC$10,0001n/a
Calderon$10,0001n/a
El Bajio Enterprises Inc$10,0001n/a
Cafeteria Saul Jr LLC$10,0001n/a
Estrada$10,0001n/a
The Brew by Vm$10,0001n/a
Jlm Burger Inc$10,0001n/a
Los Aguachiles LLC$10,0001n/a
The Cash Operating LLC$10,0001n/a
De Una Corp$10,0001n/a
5 Star Burgers Nm Inc$10,0001n/a
Surfish Bistro 2 Inc$10,0001n/a
Frozen Matter LLC Dba Sweet Action$10,0001n/a
Dexter Flowers & Juices Inc$10,0001n/a
1 & 3 on 5th Copr$10,0001n/a
Bueno Chi Inc$10,0001n/a
Toro y Leon Inc$10,0001n/a
Melissa Guzman$10,0001n/a
Tamar Fasja Unikel$10,0001n/a
Cmm Food Services$10,0001n/a
Jose Espitia$10,0001n/a
Mi Fogata Inc$10,0001n/a
Tio Davids LLC$10,0001n/a
Botanas Si Corp$10,0001n/a
Martha Ez LLC$10,0001n/a
H&J Investments Corp$10,0001n/a
Demolitions Expert LLC$10,0001n/a
Elmer Fajardo Pacheco$10,0001n/a
The Hoppy Monk LLC$10,0001n/a
Santa Fe Bite - Abq LLC$10,0001n/a
Xatrucho LLC$10,0001n/a
Magana Corp$10,0001n/a
Urth Juice Bar$10,0001n/a
Fuentes Enterprise LLC$10,0001n/a
Fifty Fifty Coffee House and Pub LLC$10,0001n/a
El Botanero de Guaymas LLC$10,0001n/a
Tumaca LLC$10,0001n/a
Op Esports Inc$10,0001n/a
Lopez Zavala$10,0001n/a
Pour Judgment LLC$10,0001n/a
Raii Palacios Enterprices LLC$10,0001n/a
975 Lincoln St LLC$10,0001n/a
Joshua Archuleta$10,0001n/a
Vargas$10,0001n/a
Pastores & Brunch Inc$10,0001n/a
La Huesuda Tacos Inc$10,0001n/a
W Food & Beverages LLC$10,0001n/a
Woodspoon$10,0001n/a
Myth's Inc$10,0001n/a
Cookie Cab LLC$10,0001n/a
Claudy's Kitchen$10,0001n/a
Santiago Corporation$10,0001n/a
Gisely Varela Apodaca$10,0001n/a
Black Clover Pub$10,0001n/a
Pulgarcito Querido Restaurant Inc$10,0001n/a
Kaufman Enterprise LLC$10,0001n/a
Zgallegos Foods LLC$10,0001n/a
Mix Fruit$10,0001n/a
Swill Wine LLC$10,0001n/a
Mango Kings LLC$10,0001n/a
Roberto Perez$10,0001n/a
Xavier Gonzales$10,0001n/a
Tajin Restaurant Corp$10,0001n/a
Mega Burger$10,0001n/a
Gustavo Plache$10,0001n/a
Panaderia y Antojitos la Piramide$10,0001n/a
El Rey V Cuisine 2020 Inc$10,0001n/a
Pratt Sheridan LLC$10,0001n/a
The Samplerbk LLC$10,0001n/a
Nunez$10,0001n/a
El Papaturro Restaurant$10,0001n/a
Eric See$10,0001n/a
32 Degrees Fahrenheit LLC$10,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Allies for Community Business Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCrown Family Foundation: $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetForefront: $125,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLegal Aid for New Entrepreneurs Inc: $103,907 over 1y, 68% of budgetIndustrial Council of Nearwest Chicago: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDreamspring: $80,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAccion Opportunity Fund Inc: $80,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLiftfund Inc: $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAscendus Inc: $80,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSouth Chicago Dance Theatre: $20,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Role Model Movement I…Women's Business Deve…Wells Fargo FoundationMile High United Way …Local Initiatives Sup…The Chicago Community…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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.

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About Allies for Community Business Inc

How much does Allies for Community Business Inc give?
Allies for Community Business Inc reported 25 itemized grants totaling $856,403, out of $1,062,666 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 134 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Allies for Community Business Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (94%), Philanthropy (6%).
Who are Allies for Community Business Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Crown Family Foundation ($150k), The Fawohodie Foundation ($135k), Forefront ($125k).
Does Allies for Community Business Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 94% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Allies for Community Business Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Role Model Movement Inc (NFP), Women's Business Development Center, Wells Fargo Foundation.
Where is Allies for Community Business Inc based?
Allies for Community Business Inc is based in IL.

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 228 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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