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Association of Women's Business Centers
The awbc works to secure economic justice and entrepreneurial opportunities for women by supporting and sustaining a national network of over 100 women's business centers (wbcs).
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $341,660 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $392,233 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $50,573 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
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $334k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION | $47,458 |
| BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| CALIFORNIA CAPITAL FDC | $32,958 |
| FRIENDS OF PUERTO RICO | $30,000 |
| GREAT LAKES WOMEN'S BUSINESS COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| THE CATALYST CENTER FOR BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP | $25,000 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA - WBC | $25,000 |
| WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT | $15,000 |
| ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | $12,500 |
| MISSION COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION | $10,619 |
| SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| WOMEN'S ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $62k · revenue +71%- SCSouthwestern College Foundation3× · 2022–2024 · $57k · revenue +31%
- CCCALIFORNIA CAPITAL SMALL BUSINESS FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- BKBABY KAYone grant, 2022 · $25k
- AIATLANTA INSTITUTE OF FINANCIAL MARKETSone grant, 2023 · $25k
- DRD RICHARDSON GROUP LLCone grant, 2023 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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
To empower women to achieve their economic goals by building profitable and sustainable businesses that transform communities.
West Enterprise Center, Inc.s mission is to educate and advocate for small businesses so that local entrepreneurs receive the information that they need to launch and expand their businesses.
Wbec-east is dedicated to the economic empowerment of entrepreneurs by providing world-class entrepreneurial training and education, and the tools and networking opportunities to develop and grow successful businesses. formed in 1995,…
The wyoming women's business center strives to advance self-sufficiency by promoting economic justice and equality throughout wyoming. to achieve the mission, the wwbc provides services that foster the creation and expansion of small…
Wbenc's mission is to fuel economic growth globally by identifying, certifying, and facilitating the development of women-owned businesses.
Provide business training, technical assitance, access to financing and the certification of women-owned businesses.
SBE Council works to promote entrepreneurship and protect small business. SBE Council advocates for entrepreneurs and stronger entrepreneurship by encouraging policies, legislative solutions and private-sector initiatives that improve the…
The enterprise center capital corporation's mission is to provide debt and equity capital that businesses need to start, grow and succeed.
To provide economic development services including business recruitment, expansion, business financing, community and workforce development.
To advance and enhance business opportunities between women-owned businesses and corporations through a reputable certification program, education, and professional growth opportunities.
To connect entrepreneurial companies with high-value resoureces such as education, mentoring and capital connections/formation, to accelerate business growth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Enterprise Development Center in and the most unlike its peers is Idaho Hispanic Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
52 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 81 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southwestern College Foundation ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA CAPITAL SMALL BUSINESS FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES WOMEN'S BUSINESS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Friends of Puerto Rico ↗
- Who funds Greater Houston Women's Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY TEAM CORP ↗
- Who funds ROCKVILLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ECONOMICS FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville Chamber Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS OUTREACH CENTER NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CATALYST CENTER FOR BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
- Who funds QUEENS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT CENTER IN ↗
- Who funds Salt Lake Chamber Women's Business Center ↗
- Who funds MISSION COMMUNITY SERVICES CORP ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds WESTERN DAIRYLAND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC ASIAN CONSORTIUM IN EMPLOYMENT ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Wells Fargo Foundation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders · AARP Foundation · Opportunity Finance Network · Truist Foundation Inc · BBVA Foundation · Citi Foundation · Cla Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation
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 Association of Women's Business Centers 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.
- Women's Business Development Council Inc — 39% of income from government
- Center for Women & Enterprise Inc — 27% of income from government
- Jacksonville Chamber Foundation Inc — 15% of income from government
- Rockville Economic Development Inc — 15% of income from government
- The Centre for Women Inc — 6% of income from government
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.