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City First Enterprises Inc

City first enterprises is a community development financial institution specializing in flexible lending for affordable housing, commercial real estate, small businesses, non-profits, clean energy, and homeownership.

$48M
Granted FY2022
526
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$750k
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, FY2017 to 2022.

Community Improvement$37MHuman Services$13MPublic Safety & Disaster$6.7MHousing & Shelter$4.2MFood & Nutrition$2.1MHealth$875kRecreation & Sports$124kCrime & Legal$62kOther$0
02FY2022 · 526 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 526 grants below total $40,891,259, the rows itemized in this filing. The $47,967,757 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,076,498 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 · FY2022

  • $10k–50k148 grants · $4.8M
  • $50k–250k364 grants · $29M
  • $250k+14 grants · $6.6M
$75,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$74M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY WELLNESS VENTURES LLC$750,000
DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE LLC$750,000
MHP WORTHINGTON WOODS LLC$697,006
V-TECH SOLUTIONS INC$598,750
TRENTON PARK APARTMENTS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$529,864
TUGOOH LLC$499,750
CONSTITUENT SERVICES WORLDWIDE PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION$420,000
PARK 7 RESIDENTIAL LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$412,110
WCS CARVER TERRACE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$367,500
PARKLAND MANOR ASSOCIATES$358,384
2335 LLC$325,000
PLAZA WEST LLC$300,958
OXFORD MANOR LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$293,918
SPICE SUITE LLC$287,500
DUPONT PARK APARTMENTS JV$249,498
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PLAZA WEST LLC: $301k → 22%THE JUNIPER GROUP LLC: $100k → 7%TERROIR LLC: $100k → 9%ME SWING COMPANY INC: $100k → 9%DUPONT PARK APARTMENTS JV: $249k → 11%JHES LLC: $100k → 8%FRIENDSHIP COURTS APARTMENTS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP: $183k → 11%THE BROWN BAG INC: $100k → 8%SBM INC: $100k → 6%PARK 7 RESIDENTIAL LIMITED PARTNERSHIP: $412k → 8%LION HOSPITALITY LLC: $100k → 8%MHP WORTHINGTON WOODS LLC: $697k → 8%TRENTON PARK APARTMENTS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP: $530k → 8%OXFORD MANOR LIMITED PARTNERSHIP: $294k → 8%FINSBURY SQUARE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP: $235k → 8%NO KISSES WOLFMAN LLC: $100k → 14%JKM INCORPORATED: $100k → 14%MI CUBA CAFE INC: $100k → 14%BALANCE GYM FOGGY BOTTOM: $100k → 14%SALON GROUP LLC: $100k → 14%TOPPROMO INC: $100k → 14%734 NW LLC: $100k → 14%FT DC LLC: $100k → 14%BINDAAS 2000 PENN LLC: $100k → 14%ARDEO LLC: $100k → 14%OVAL ROOM LLC: $100k → 14%BOMBAY CLUB INC: $100k → 14%2335 LLC: $325k → 14%DC BRAU BREWING LLC: $100k → 14%T&J CORPORATION: $100k → 14%A & J HOSPITALITY CORPORATION: $100k → 14%GORDON RESTAURANT GROUP - CHEVY CHASE LLC: $100k → 14%BLUE 44 LLC: $100k → 14%SPICE SUITE LLC: $288k → 14%THREE STARS BREWING COMPANY INC: $100k → 14%COAM ENTERPRISES LLC: $100k → 14%BLOOM INC: $100k → 14%COMMUNITY WELLNESS VENTURES LLC: $750k → 14%WCS CARVER TERRACE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP: $368k → 14%PARKLAND MANOR ASSOCIATES: $358k → 14%V-TECH SOLUTIONS INC: $599k → 14%CITY FIRST HOMES INC: $226k → 14%CITY FIRST HOMES INC: $190k → 14%CITY FIRST HOMES INC: $117k → 14%DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE LLC: $750k → 14%CONSTITUENT SERVICES WORLDWIDE PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION: $420k → 14%MOTHER RUCKERS SUBS LLC: $196k → 14%TUGOOH LLC: $500k → 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.
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.

19%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 88 repeat orgs$52M to everyone else

88 repeat relationships: 87 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 435 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

88
343

Total granted

$12M
$18M

Still filing today

1%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • CF
    CITY FIRST HOMES INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $533k · revenue +174% · 38% of their budget
  • ZR
    ZEPPELIN RESTAURANT DC LLC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $162k
  • LT
    LEEDS THE WAY LLC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $162k

Funded once

  • IP
    IMA PIZZA STORE 13 LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $62k
  • VL
    VIVID LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $62k
  • D7
    DOCK 79 RESTAURANT LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $62k
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
04the grantee network

1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 866 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)
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

+199 more: $28,253,133 · Other+199 moreCITY FIRST HOMES INC: $532,832 · Housing & Shelter
Other$28,253,133Housing & Shelter$532,832

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetCITY FIRST HOMES INC: $532,832 over 3y, 38% 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.

  • Who funds CITY FIRST HOMES INC ↗

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Latino Economic Devel…Downtown Business Imp…Van Ness Group IncCapital Impact Partne…District BridgesFriends of GeorgetownTenleytown GroupWashington Area Commu…National Gay & Lesbia…National Urban League…New Venture FundLocal Initiatives Sup…
Latino Economic Development CorporationDC111.6× affinity465 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Latino Economic Development Corporation · Downtown Business Improvement District Corporation · Van Ness Group Inc · Capital Impact Partners · District Bridges · Friends of Georgetown · Tenleytown Group · Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc · National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce · National Urban League Inc · New Venture Fund · 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 City First Enterprises Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from City First Enterprises Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%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 · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.

    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 866 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 2022, released 2022. 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 $8.6M 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 FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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