Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Credit Builders Alliance Inc
Cba's mission is to help organizations move people from poverty to prosperity through credit building. We do this by building the capacity of our nonprofit and municipal members to implement strategies necessary to help their clients build credit and enter the financial mainstream. Cba fills a void by being a bridge for credit building…
- $690k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 21
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $385k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 19
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 64% of the organizations Credit Builders Alliance Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 21 | $385k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $731k | 64% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $270k | 74% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $102k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $210k | 83% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $177k | 86% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $43k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $8k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cba Fund | $670,000 | 2 | 45% |
| Credit Builders Alliance Inc | $295,000 | 3 | 8% |
| The Urban Institute | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lift Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Neighborhood Partnership Housing Services Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ser-Jobs for Progress of the Texas Gulf Coast Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation | $26,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Shoshone Bannock Tribes | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ariva Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Columbus Housing Initiative Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 67 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Credit Builders Alliance Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 59 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Wells Fargo Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Enterprise Community Partners Inc · Citi Foundation · National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders · Opportunity Finance Network · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Cba Fund · Truist Foundation Inc · Prosperity Now
How this is measured
About Credit Builders Alliance Inc
- How much does Credit Builders Alliance Inc give?
- Credit Builders Alliance Inc reported 21 itemized grants totaling $385,000, out of $689,716 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 Credit Builders Alliance Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (44%), Membership Benefit (15%), Community Improvement (14%).
- Who are Credit Builders Alliance Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cba Fund ($670k), Credit Builders Alliance Inc ($295k), The Urban Institute ($150k).
- Does Credit Builders Alliance Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Credit Builders Alliance Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wells Fargo Foundation, Td Charitable Foundation, Enterprise Community Partners Inc.
- Where is Credit Builders Alliance Inc based?
- Credit Builders Alliance Inc is based in DC.
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