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Inner City Advisors

Ica fund accelerates great businesses through mentoring and investments to catalyze value in local markets and create community wealth.

$127k
Granted FY2019
2
Grants FY2019
2
Organizations funded FY2019
50%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$75,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 4
FY2018 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1
Total assets, FY2019
$24M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 50% of the organizations Inner City Advisors funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20192$127k50%
FY20184$300kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2019.

Community Improvement$375kEducation$52k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Working Solutions Cdfi$150,00023%
SFMade Inc$100,00016%
Mission Economic Development Agency$75,00011%
Mills College$51,84310%
Centro Community Partners$50,000111%

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.

Mufg Union Bank Foundation AgWI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Inner City Advisors

How much does Inner City Advisors give?
Inner City Advisors reported 2 grants totaling $127,243 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2019.
What does Inner City Advisors fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2019, its largest causes are Community Improvement (88%), Education (12%).
Who are Inner City Advisors's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2019: Working Solutions Cdfi ($150k), SFMade Inc ($100k), Mission Economic Development Agency ($75k).
Does Inner City Advisors fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Inner City Advisors?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag, The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Where is Inner City Advisors based?
Inner City Advisors 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 5 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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