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California Association for Microenterprise Opportunity

To grow a thriving ecosystem of support for underserved entrepreneurs where all entrepreneurs have access to the resources they need to succeed, creating family economic mobility and community prosperity.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$80k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 19
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$7.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations California Association for Microenterprise Opportunity funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesEmploymentPublic BenefitArts & CultureInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$80k0%
FY20234$100k0%
FY202213$201k69%
FY202119$742k100%
FY20171$30kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$1.0MEducation$550kHousing & Shelter$65kHuman Services$45kCrime & Legal$10kFood & Nutrition$9k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

California Association for Microenterprise Opportunity supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPathway Capital Funding Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetAccessity: $79,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetOmniworks Economic Development Corporation: $75,000 over 1y, 79% of budgetEl Pajaro Community Development Corporation: $75,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetMission Economic Development Agency: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOpen Doors: $75,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetWorking Solutions Cdfi: $60,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFresno Community Development Financial Institution dba Access Plus Capital: $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAlliance for Community Development of the San Francisco Bay Area: $60,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetLc and Lillie Cox Haven of Hope: $45,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetBethel la Community Development Corporation: $45,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetCielo Community for Innovation Entrepreneurship Leadership: $40,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetCentro Community Partners: $40,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetEconomic Development and Financing Corporation Inc: $37,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetProspera Community Development: $35,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetArcata Economic Development Corporation: $35,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetIndian Dispute Resolution Services Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTmc Community Capital: $34,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSkysthelimit Org: $30,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetJefferson Economic Development Institute: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetStart Small Think Big Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWest Enterprise Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRenaissance Entrepreneurship Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFeed the Hunger Fund: $9,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFirst Community Capital Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFresno Area Hispanic Foundation: $9,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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 FoundationMN27.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wells Fargo Foundation · Citi Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Opportunity Finance Network · The James Irvine Foundation · Tides Foundation · Cathay Bank Foundation · Latino Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community 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.

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About California Association for Microenterprise Opportunity

How much does California Association for Microenterprise Opportunity give?
California Association for Microenterprise Opportunity reported 4 itemized grants totaling $80,000, out of $1,112,605 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does California Association for Microenterprise Opportunity fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (61%), Education (32%), Housing & Shelter (4%).
Who are California Association for Microenterprise Opportunity's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Pathway Capital Funding Inc ($100k), Accessity ($79k), Omniworks Economic Development Corporation ($75k).
Does California Association for Microenterprise Opportunity fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as California Association for Microenterprise Opportunity?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wells Fargo Foundation, Citi Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
Where is California Association for Microenterprise Opportunity based?
California Association for Microenterprise Opportunity is based in CA.

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 30 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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