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Small Business Advocacy Council
The SMALL BUSINESS ADVOCACY COUNCIL (sbac) is a non-partisan, member driven organization that promotes the success of small business through political advocacy, support services, and educational programs
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $250,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $263,688 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $13,688 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC | $250,000 |
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 (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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.
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 foster a competitive business climate and promote economic development by providing access to a broad range of resources such as leadership, advocacy, networking, partnerships, and educational opportunities for the Evanston business…
Local chamber of commerce
The Chamber is a member organization proud to serve businesses in Oak Park, River Forest , Forest Park and the surrounding areas. We Provide leadership, information, events, workshops and opportunities for networking and relationship…
Promote economic development in the west ridge area community of chicago
To advance civic, economic, industrial, professional, and cultural welfare of the business community.
To represent and advance its business community striving with constant integrity fairness and cooperation to promote and improve the economic atmosphere business climate and image of Oak Lawn
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Improve the economy of the local community
The Edgewater Chamber of Commerce's mission is to create and support a thriving business environment, contributing to a vibrant Edgewater community. We present marketing, networking, education, and one-on-one assistance to businesses.
The chamber provides business referrals and marketing, economic development, and educational training programs.
To be a voice for business and a forum for the exchange of ideas and through a variety of chamber programs and services, strengthen the economic vitality of east chicago, hammond, and northwest indiana.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Allies for Community Business Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greater Englewood Chamber of Commerce. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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 ALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC ↗
- Who funds DEVCORP NORTH DBA ROGERS PARK BUSINESS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Greater Englewood Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds NEW COVENANT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds South Shore Chamber Community Development Corp ↗
- Who funds WOODLAWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds LOGAN SQUARE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH EAST CHICAGO COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds UPTOWN UNITED ↗
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: Women's Business Development Center · Choose Chicago Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Small Business Advocacy Council 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.
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