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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).

$392k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$47k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$581kEducation$237kHuman Services$134kEmployment$131kArts & Culture$78kHousing & Shelter$40kFood & Nutrition$38kYouth Development$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $341,660, the rows itemized in this filing. The $392,233 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $50,573 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $334k
$15,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA - WBC$25,000
WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL$25,000
GREAT LAKES WOMEN'S BUSINESS COUNCIL$25,000
THE CATALYST CENTER FOR BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP$25,000
CENTER FOR ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT$15,000
ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE$12,500
MISSION COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION$10,619
THE GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTIONAL FOUNDATION$10,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON$10,000
SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE FOUNDATION$10,000
JEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%IDAHO WOMEN'S BUSINESS CENTER: $5k → 8%ANEWAMERICA COMMUNITY CORP: $5k → 10%WESST CORPORATION: $14k → 14%THE CENTRE FOR WOMEN INC: $10k → 13%WOMEN & TECHNOLOGY: $10k → 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA - WBC: $25k → 23%URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA - WBC: $10k → 23%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

WA
ID
MT
ND
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
SD
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
NE
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$641k · 20 repeat orgs$757k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
53

Total granted

$641k
$617k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+2%

Still filing today

85%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEmploymentHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $62k · revenue +71%
  • SC
    Southwestern College Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $57k · revenue +31%
  • CC
    CALIFORNIA CAPITAL SMALL BUSINESS FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • AI
    ATLANTA INSTITUTE OF FINANCIAL MARKETS
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • BK
    BABY KAY
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • DR
    D RICHARDSON GROUP LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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.

04Its 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
Womens Center for Economic Opportunity

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

Education
2
Womenventure

To empower women to achieve their economic goals by building profitable and sustainable businesses that transform communities.

Community Improvement
3
West Enterprise Center Inc

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.

Unclassified
4
Women's Business Enterprise Center East

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,…

Unclassified
5
Wyoming Women's Business Center

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…

Community Improvement
6
Women's Business Enterprise National Council

Wbenc's mission is to fuel economic growth globally by identifying, certifying, and facilitating the development of women-owned businesses.

Civil Rights
7
Women's Business Development Center Inc

Provide business training, technical assitance, access to financing and the certification of women-owned businesses.

Employment
8
Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council

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…

—
9
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.

—
10
Racine County Economic Development Corporation

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

Human Services
11
Women Business Enterprise Council South

To advance and enhance business opportunities between women-owned businesses and corporations through a reputable certification program, education, and professional growth opportunities.

Civil Rights
12
Center for Entrepreneurial Development

To connect entrepreneurial companies with high-value resoureces such as education, mentoring and capital connections/formation, to accelerate business growth.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Enterprise Development Center in; 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.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 81 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/52
Grantees still filing
30/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Southwestern College Foundation: $57,350 · OtherSouthwestern College FoundationGREAT LAKES WOMEN'S BUSINESS COUNCIL: $45,000 · OtherGREAT LAKES WOMEN'S BUSINESS COUNCILTHE SLAM STAND: $29,990 · OtherATLANTA INSTITUTE OF FINANCIAL MARKETS: $25,000 · OtherBABY KAY: $25,000 · OtherD RICHARDSON GROUP LLC: $25,000 · OtherXTREME CLEAN JANITORIAL SERVICE LLC: $24,000 · OtherPIZZA BAZAAR: $21,080 · Other+31 more: $367,780 · Other+31 moreCALIFORNIA CAPITAL SMALL BUSINESS FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $55,308 · Community ImprovementCALIFORNIA CAPITAL SMALL …ROCKVILLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementROCKVILLE ECONOMIC DEVELO…Jacksonville Chamber Foundation Inc: $25,000 · Community ImprovementJacksonville Chamber Foun…BUSINESS OUTREACH CENTER NETWORK INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementBUSINESS OUTREACH CENTER …THE CATALYST CENTER FOR BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $25,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CATALYST CENTER FOR B…QUEENS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $22,500 · Community ImprovementQUEENS ECONOMIC DEVELOPME…JEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $20,000 · Community ImprovementJEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELO…Salt Lake Chamber Women's Business Center: $17,750 · Community ImprovementSalt Lake Chamber Women's…MISSION COMMUNITY SERVICES CORP: $16,019 · Community ImprovementWESTERN DAIRYLAND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementPACIFIC ASIAN CONSORTIUM IN EMPLOYMENT: $12,500 · Community ImprovementTHE EDGE CONNECTION INC: $12,500 · Community ImprovementACCESS TO CAPITAL FOR ENTREPRENEURS INC: $12,500 · Community Improvement+3 more: $23,525 · Community Improvement+3 moreCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $62,458 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE U…Greater Houston Women's Foundation: $37,550 · EducationGreater Houston Wo…BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationBLACK HILLS STATE …WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $25,000 · EducationWOMEN'S BUSINESS D…OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationU S Black Chamber of Commerce EDC: $10,000 · EducationCHATHAM UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationBENEDICT COLLEGE: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $12,400 · Education+2 moreURBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $35,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY TEAM CORP: $30,300 · Human ServicesTHE CENTRE FOR WOMEN INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN AND TECHNOLOGY: $10,000 · Human ServicesFUNDACION SILA M CALDERON INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesIdaho Hispanic Foundation Inc: $5,400 · Human ServicesANEWAMERICA COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $5,400 · Human ServicesFriends of Puerto Rico: $42,000 · Arts & CultureGROW NEBRASKA: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN'S ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT CENTER IN: $20,000 · EmploymentCENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC: $12,500 · EmploymentNEVADA BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY FUND: $10,000 · EmploymentNEW ECONOMICS FOR WOMEN: $27,550 · Housing & ShelterPRICELESS INVESTORS: $7,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$620,200Community Improvement$312,602Education$222,408Human Services$103,100Arts & Culture$62,000Employment$42,500Housing & Shelter$35,050

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $62,458 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSouthwestern College Foundation: $57,350 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA CAPITAL SMALL BUSINESS FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $55,308 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGREAT LAKES WOMEN'S BUSINESS COUNCIL: $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFriends of Puerto Rico: $42,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGreater Houston Women's Foundation: $37,550 over 3y, 14% of budgetBLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY TEAM CORP: $30,300 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetROCKVILLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNEW ECONOMICS FOR WOMEN: $27,550 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJacksonville Chamber Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBUSINESS OUTREACH CENTER NETWORK INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CATALYST CENTER FOR BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetQUEENS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $22,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN'S ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT CENTER IN: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSalt Lake Chamber Women's Business Center: $17,750 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMISSION COMMUNITY SERVICES CORP: $16,019 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWESTERN DAIRYLAND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC ASIAN CONSORTIUM IN EMPLOYMENT: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE EDGE CONNECTION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetLocal Development Corp of East New York: $12,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS TO CAPITAL FOR ENTREPRENEURS INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINORITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetU S Black Chamber of Commerce EDC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGROW NEBRASKA: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CENTRE FOR WOMEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHATHAM UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGALLATIN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DBA PROSPERA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN AND TECHNOLOGY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEVADA BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBENEDICT COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST INDIANA INNOVATION CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEL PASO HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSEATTLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND BUSINESS IMPACT NW: $8,125 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRICELESS INVESTORS: $7,500 over 1y, 94% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENGAGED PAYEE SUPPORT: $7,229 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSISTEMA UNIVERSITARIO ANA G MENDEZ INCORPORADO: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUNDACION SILA M CALDERON INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIFTFUND INC: $5,400 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Wells Fargo FoundationMufg Union Bank Found…National Association …AARP FoundationOpportunity Finance N…Truist Foundation IncBBVA FoundationCiti FoundationCla FoundationTd Charitable Foundat…The Winston-Salem Fou…Local Initiatives Sup…
Wells Fargo FoundationMN31.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Association of Women's Business Centers funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Association of Women's Business Centers. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report 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.

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 81 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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