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Community Financial Services Assoc of America

To support the legal activities and litigation efforts of its members and the small-dollar lending industry, to ensure continued consumer confidence, to educate about the role of small-dollar lending in the broader financial services arena, and to promote laws and regulations that protect consumers while preserving access to credit…

$15k
Granted FY2019
1
Grants FY2019
1
Organizations funded FY2019
100%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1
Total assets, FY2019
$300k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 100% of the organizations Community Financial Services Assoc of America funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
Community ImprovementOther
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
FY20191$15k100%
FY20181$25k100%
FY20171$19kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Community Improvement$34kPublic Benefit$25k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
SCLC Martin Luther King Jr Poor People's$25,0001n/a
United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce$18,75010%
Online Lenders Alliance$15,00010%

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How do I get to Community Financial Services Assoc of America?

Find your warmest path to Community Financial Services Assoc of America 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.

About Community Financial Services Assoc of America

How much does Community Financial Services Assoc of America give?
Community Financial Services Assoc of America reported 1 grants totaling $15,000 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Community Financial Services Assoc of America fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Community Improvement (57%), Public Benefit (43%).
Who are Community Financial Services Assoc of America's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: SCLC Martin Luther King Jr Poor People's ($25k), United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce ($19k), Online Lenders Alliance ($15k).
Does Community Financial Services Assoc of America fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Community Financial Services Assoc of America based?
Community Financial Services Assoc of America is based in VA.

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 3 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 2019, released 2019. 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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