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Appalachian Community Capital Development Foundation

To increase small business lending by providing appalachian member institutions that serve underserved people and communities with new sources of capital.

$905k
Granted FY2022
14
Grants FY2022
10
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2022.

Community Improvement$1.4MHuman Services$50kFood & Nutrition$30k
02FY2022 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $850k
$75,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FINANCE FUND CAPITAL CORPORATION$100,000
BRIDGEWAY CAPITAL$100,000
VIRGINIA COMMUNITY CAPITAL$100,000
CAROLINA SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FUND$75,000
SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY CAPITAL CORP$75,000
NATIONAL CAPITAL INVESTMENT FUND$75,000
ACCESS TO CAPITAL TO ENTREPRENEURS INC$75,000
MOUNTAIN BIZCAPITAL$50,000
ALTERNATIVES FEDERAL CREDIT UNION$50,000
COMMUNITY WORKS$50,000
SOUTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FUND$50,000
SABRE FINANCE$50,000
FOODSHED CAPITAL$30,000
TOTAL ACTION AGAINST POVERTY - RKE VALLEY$25,000
02The need
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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 (FY22–22, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TOTAL ACTION AGAINST POVERTY - RKE VALLEY: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
WV
VA
TN
NC
SC
MS
AL
GA
TX
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 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
Small Business Development Corporation of Orange County

To provide financial assistance to small businesses. the organization is primarily involved in economic development lending activities providing state loan guarantees to bank and non-bank lenders through the state loan guarantee program…

Community Improvement
2
Community Capital of Vermont

To help small businesses and lower income entrepreneurs prosper through the provision of flexible business financing.

Community Improvement
3
Valley Small Business Development Corporation

Providing capital, management assistance and other financial resources, including loan services, personnel, and business education to small business entrepreneurs in economically disadvantaged areas, and thereby stimulating economic…

Community Improvement
4
Access Community Capital

To provide low-cost loans to underserved small businesses encouraging community and economic development.

Community Improvement
5
Community Loan Fund of the Capital Region Inc

Community development financial institution that links socially concerned investors with community needs by making affordable housing, community and economic development loans to nonprofit orgs, small businesses and low/moderate income…

Housing & Shelter
6
Racine County Economic Development Corporation

To provide economic development services including business recruitment, expansion, business financing, community and workforce development.

Human Services
7
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
8
The Enterprise Center Capital Corporation

The enterprise center capital corporation's mission is to provide debt and equity capital that businesses need to start, grow and succeed.

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9
Shenandoah Community Capital Fund Inc

Sccf's vision is to help build a more accessible and equitable ecosystem for entrepreneurs and small business owners in the shenandoah valley of virginia.

Community Improvement
10
Addison County Economic Development Corporation

To create an entrepreneurial and innovative environment, nurturing business to launch, grow, and thrive.

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11
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
12
Business Consortium Fund Inc

The business consortium fund, inc. (bcf) promotes economic development by providing responsible financing, business advisory services, and access to capital for small businesses that have limited access to traditional sources of credit,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Finance Fund Capital Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Small Business Capital Fund of Ms. 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

12 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. 12 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACT Albany Community Together Inc: $200,000 · Community ImprovementACT Albany Community Together IncBronze Valley Corp: $200,000 · Community ImprovementBronze Valley CorpSMALL BUSINESS CAPITAL FUND OF MS: $200,000 · Community ImprovementSMALL BUSINESS CAPITAL FUND OF MSLOCUS IMPACT FUND: $100,000 · Community ImprovementLOCUS IMPACT FUNDACCESS TO CAPITAL FOR ENTREPRENEURS INC: $75,000 · Community ImprovementACCESS TO CAPITAL FOR ENTREPRENEURS INCSABRE FINANCE INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementSABRE FINANCE INCBRIDGEWAY CAPITAL: $100,000 · OtherBRIDGEWAY CAPITALNATIONAL CAPITAL INVESTMENT FUND: $75,000 · OtherNATIONAL CAPITAL INVESTM…SOUTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FUND: $50,000 · OtherSOUTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY…ALTERNATIVES FEDERAL CREDIT UNION: $50,000 · OtherALTERNATIVES FEDERAL CRE…COMMUNITY WORKS: $50,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY WORKSFINANCE FUND CAPITAL CORPORATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyFINANCE FUN…MOUNTAIN BIZCAPITAL INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyMOUNTAIN BI…SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY CAPITAL CORPORATION D/B/A PATHWAY LENDING: $75,000 · EmploymentCarolina Small Business Development Fund: $75,000 · Public BenefitFOODSHED CAPITAL: $30,000 · Food & NutritionTOTAL ACTION AGAINST POVERTY IN THE ROANOKE VALLEY: $25,000 · Human Services
Community Improvement$825,000Other$325,000Philanthropy$150,000Employment$75,000Public Benefit$75,000Food & Nutrition$30,000Human Services$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetACT Albany Community Together Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBronze Valley Corp: $200,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetLOCUS IMPACT FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFINANCE FUND CAPITAL CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY CAPITAL CORPORATION D/B/A PATHWAY LENDING: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACCESS TO CAPITAL FOR ENTREPRENEURS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCarolina Small Business Development Fund: $75,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSABRE FINANCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMOUNTAIN BIZCAPITAL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFOODSHED CAPITAL: $30,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTOTAL ACTION AGAINST POVERTY IN THE ROANOKE VALLEY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Appalachian Community…Opportunity Finance N…The Winston-Salem Fou…Mary Reynolds Babcock…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Appalachian Community Capital CorporationVA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Appalachian Community Capital Corporation · Opportunity Finance Network · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Incorporated · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Appalachian Community Capital Development Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Appalachian Community Capital Development Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%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
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Appalachian Community Capital Development Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 17 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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