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Business Education Fund
BUSINESS EDUCATION FUND supports its flagship project, main street alliance, to: ensure authentic small business owners themselves are part of defining the problem and informing policy solutions so that the needs of even the smallest and least connected businesses are heard; recruit and support small business owners to share powerful…
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE | $35,000 |
| ALEIM ADORN INC DBA ODE TO BABEL | $10,000 |
| ATLANTIC SANDS INC | $10,000 |
| SOUTH RESTAURANT & JAZZ CLUB VV | $10,000 |
| LIEGE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ARMAGEDDON BEACHPARTY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| LITTLEFIELD | $10,000 |
| REFUGE LIVE LLC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| PIZZARIO | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 63% 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
3 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. 3 of the 67 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
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Business Education Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Business Education Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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