· Community foundation
Great Rivers Community Trust
To support community development financial institutions (cdfis) through the creation and ongoing development of a secondary market for cdfi small business loans.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $111k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $195,701 |
| LIFT FUND | $93,555 |
| DREAMSPRING | $91,328 |
| ASCENDUS INC | $85,862 |
| ALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS | $83,881 |
| THE CENTER BY LENDISTRY | $48,062 |
| TMC COMMUNITY CAPITAL | $17,325 |
| WORKING SOLUTIONS CDFI | $17,233 |
| LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $15,668 |
| COMMUNITY ENTERPRISES INC | $13,138 |
| UTAH MICROLOAN FUND | $9,866 |
| JUSTINE PETERSEN HOUSING AND REINVESTMENT CORPORATION | $5,302 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $555k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- AOACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT4× · 2022–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +21%
- AACCESSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $480k · revenue +38%
- CECOMMUNITY ENTERPRISES INC2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- RDRAZA DEVELOPMENT FUND INCone grant, 2024 · $159k · revenue 0%
- PCPACIFIC COMMUNITY VENTURES INCone grant, 2024 · $58k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Access plus capital is nonprofit small business lender and service provider with the mission to eliminate economic barriers to financial success through fair and equitable community investment.
First Community Capital, Inc. (FCCI) is a certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) dedicated to expanding access to affordable capital and technical assistance for small businesses and individuals, with a focus on low-…
A community development financial institution or community development finance institution - abbreviated in both cases to CDFI - is a financial institution that provides credit and financial services to underserved markets and populations,…
Providing capital, management assistance and other financial resources, including loan services, personnel, and business education to small business entrepreneurs in economically disadvantaged areas, and thereby stimulating economic…
Community enterprise development services' mission is to support the american dream of financial self-sufficiency, by assisting refugees, immigrants, and those from underserved communities in metro denver who desire to own or strengthen…
Community development financial institution that links socially concerned investors with community needs by making affordable housing, community and economic development loans to nonprofit orgs, small businesses and low/moderate income…
Acc capital is a private nonprofit financial leader on a mission for economic change. we are dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs and uplifting communities with accessible loans, resources, and over 68 years of experience.
To provide low-cost loans to underserved small businesses encouraging community and economic development.
The enterprise center capital corporation's mission is to provide debt and equity capital that businesses need to start, grow and succeed.
To accelerate community prosperity by financing and supporting entrepreneurs and small businesses.
To help small businesses and lower income entrepreneurs prosper through the provision of flexible business financing.
Dakota business lending is a small business resource that drives economic growth by:1. providing unique financing opportunities2. positively impacting the communities we serve3. educating and guiding small businesses4. building…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accion Opportunity Fund Community Development and the most unlike its peers is Community Enterprises Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds DREAMSPRING ↗
- Who funds LIFTFUND INC ↗
- Who funds WORKING SOLUTIONS CDFI ↗
- Who funds ACCESSITY ↗
- Who funds ASCENDUS INC ↗
- Who funds Main Street Launch ↗
- Who funds ALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC ↗
- Who funds RAZA DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENVENTURE ↗
- Who funds The Center for Strategic Economic Studies and Institutional Development ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC COMMUNITY VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds Justine Petersen Housing And Reinvestment Corporation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds TMC COMMUNITY CAPITAL ↗
- Who funds Latino Economic Development Center ↗
- Who funds UTAH MICROENTERPRISE LOAN FUND ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Opportunity Finance Network · Wells Fargo Foundation · Citi Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Gina Harman Family Foundation Inc · Western Alliance Community Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Capital One Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Great Rivers Community Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.