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Black Girl Ventures Foundation

The mission is to create access to capital, capacity building and education for under resourced entrepreneurs that enables business sustainability and creates intergenerational wealth for a more equitable society.

$1.3M
Granted FY2021
13
Grants FY2021
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Health$55kCommunity Improvement$40kFood & Nutrition$12kScience & Tech$11kArts & Culture$10kRecreation & Sports$10kYouth Development$10kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2021 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $130,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,342,859 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,212,859 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.
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CREATIVITI CUSTOM DESIGNS AND EVENTS LLC$10,000
WUKKOUT LLC$10,000
RENAL ELLISON COACHING & TRAINING$10,000
NKC ACCOUNTING LLC$10,000
KEETA PLACE INC$10,000
MINNYC LLC$10,000
SOUL CARE LLC$10,000
LYC STRATEGIES LLC$10,000
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS CONSULTING GROUP$10,000
FAIRLESSLY HUE LLC$10,000
DISTRICT 78 LLC$10,000
TASSEL TUM$10,000
BLACK TRAVEL SUMMIT LLC$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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Oroganic Bath LLC: $9k → 16%RENAL ELLISON COACHING & TRAINING: $10k → 6%Obaa Beauty Inc: $13k → 11%MINNYC LLC: $10k → 13%WUKKOUT LLC: $10k → 20%Upbrainery Technologies LLC: $11k → 16%Your Way Foods LLC: $12k → 14%BLACK TRAVEL SUMMIT LLC: $10k → 13%BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS CONSULTING GROUP: $10k → 15%NKC ACCOUNTING LLC: $10k → 12%SOUL CARE LLC: $10k → 16%LYC STRATEGIES LLC: $10k → 14%Lamik Inc: $13k → 16%DISTRICT 78 LLC: $10k → 16%TASSEL TUM: $10k → 14%CREATIVITI CUSTOM DESIGNS AND EVENTS LLC: $10k → 14%KEETA PLACE INC: $10k → 14%FAIRLESSLY HUE LLC: $10k → 14%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

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
DC
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 field
04the grantee network

1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2020–2024.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2020 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/1
Grantees still filing
1/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Obaa Beauty Inc: $13,182 · OtherObaa Beauty IncLAMIK INC: $12,773 · OtherLAMIK INCYour Way Foods LLC: $11,770 · OtherYour Way Foods LLCUpbrainery Technologies LLC: $11,445 · OtherUpbrainery Technologies LLCTASSELTURN: $10,000 · OtherTASSELTURNBEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS CONSULTING GROUP: $10,000 · OtherBEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS CONSULTING GROUPRENAL ELLISON COACHING & TRAINING: $10,000 · OtherRENAL ELLISON COACHING & TRAININGWUKKOUT LLC: $10,000 · OtherWUKKOUT LLCSOUL CARE LLC: $10,000 · OtherSOUL CARE LLCFAIRLESSLY HUE LLC: $10,000 · OtherFAIRLESSLY HUE LLCDISTRICT 78 LLC: $10,000 · OtherDISTRICT 78 LLCLYC STRATEGIES LLC: $10,000 · OtherLYC STRATEGIES LLCCREATIVITI CUSTOM DESIGNS AND EVENTS LLC: $10,000 · OtherCREATIVITI CUSTOM DESIGNS AND EVENTS LLCMINNYC LLC: $10,000 · OtherMINNYC LLCBLACK TRAVEL SUMMIT LLC: $10,000 · OtherBLACK TRAVEL SUMMIT LLCNKC ACCOUNTING LLC: $10,000 · OtherNKC ACCOUNTING LLCOrganic Bath LLC: $8,608 · OtherKEETAS PLACE INC: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$177,778Youth Development$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

  • Who funds KEETAS PLACE INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Black Girl Ventures Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Black Girl Ventures Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY23–24
    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 Black Girl Ventures 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 18 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $773k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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