· Public charity
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k20 grants · $400k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $456k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FAWOHODIE FOUNDATION | $135,306 |
| LEGAL AID FOR NEW ENTREPRENEURS INC | $103,907 |
| OUTWEST GALLERY AND CAFE | $95,850 |
| FUTURE FIRM PLLC | $71,340 |
| CROWN FAMILY PHILANTHROPIES | $50,000 |
| ONE GROUP MIND LLC | $20,000 |
| CITY WIDE JANI INC | $20,000 |
| STELLAR FOODS LLC | $20,000 |
| CHKN BOX LLC | $20,000 |
| BANTER MARKETPLACE LLC | $20,000 |
| GUERRERO TIRE SHOP INC | $20,000 |
| BILL WELDING & FABRICATION | $20,000 |
| GRAY MATTER GAMING LLC | $20,000 |
| GALVEZ AND VALLE LLC AURA HOLISTIC AND METAPHYSICAL WELL | $20,000 |
| ANDY SUNFLOWER CAFE | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +207% since the first grant, against -16% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $806k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCROWN FAMILY FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +207%
- FHFood Hero L3C2× · 2021–2023 · $31k
- LPLATIN PLATE CATERING2× · 2019–2021 · $30k
Funded once
- FFOREFRONTgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $125k · revenue +75%
- ICINDUSTRIAL COUNCIL OF NEARWEST CHICAGOgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +26%
- DDREAMSPRINGone grant, 2021 · $80k · revenue -65%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
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. 9 of the 228 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Allies for Community Business Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Allies for Community Business Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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