· Public charity
Peoplefund
PEOPLEFUND creates economic opportunity and financial stability for underserved people and communities by providing access to capital, education, and resources to build healthy small businesses.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $968,675 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,286,075 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $317,400 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- $10k–50k1 grant · $34k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $635k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACCESS TO CAPITAL FOR ENTREPRENEURS INC | $300,000 |
| ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC | $215,175 |
| BLACK BUSINESS INVESTMENTS FUND INC | $140,000 |
| SEATTLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND DBA BUSINESS IMPACT NW | $130,000 |
| WISCONSIN WOMENS BUSINESS INITIATIVE | $100,000 |
| PURSUIT (NYBDC) | $50,000 |
| COLORADO ENTERPRISE FUND INC | $33,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of your 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.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $649k 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
- BBBLACK BUSINESS INVESTMENT FUND INC2× · 2021–2022 · $300k · revenue -32%
- SESEATTLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND BUSINESS IMPACT NW2× · 2021–2022 · $179k · revenue +14%
- NLNYBDC LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- SCSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY CAPITAL CORPORATION D/B/A PATHWAY LENDINGgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +189%
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.
To provide economic development services including business recruitment, expansion, business financing, community and workforce development.
To provide financial assistance to small businesses. the organization is primarily involved in economic development lending activities providing state loan guarantees to bank and non-bank lenders through the state loan guarantee program…
Provide loans to qualified businesses in the corporation's targeted area.
To help small businesses and lower income entrepreneurs prosper through the provision of flexible business financing.
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
Promote & develop economic growth in new jersey by providing financial and technical assistance to small businesses.
To increase small business lending by providing appalachian member institutions that serve underserved people and communities with new sources of capital.
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,…
The enterprise center capital corporation's mission is to provide debt and equity capital that businesses need to start, grow and succeed.
We help build inclusive and equitable communities by providing people access to the capital and opportunities they deserve.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
To provide loan financing and support to serve the needs of and benefit small business and residents in the state of washington.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Black Business Investment Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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 ACCESS TO CAPITAL FOR ENTREPRENEURS INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK BUSINESS INVESTMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND BUSINESS IMPACT NW ↗
- Who funds NYBDC LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ENTERPRISE FUND ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY CAPITAL CORPORATION D/B/A PATHWAY LENDING ↗
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 · Community Reinvestment Fund Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Peoplefund 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.
- Black Business Investment Fund Inc — 9% of income from government
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.