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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

$264k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Community Improvement$647k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $250,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $263,688 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,688 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$250,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$87k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC$250,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC: $250k → 14%ALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC: $250k → 14%ALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC: $39k → 14%UPTOWN UNITED: $10k → 14%LOGAN SQUARE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10k → 14%WOODLAWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $15k → 14%SOUTH SHORE CHAMBER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $15k → 14%GREATER ENGLEWOOD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $15k → 14%NEW COVENANT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $15k → 14%SOUTH EAST CHICAGO COMMISSION: $10k → 14%ROGERS PARK BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $18k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Cook County Chamber
Philanthropy
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Oak Park River Forest 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…

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3
West Ridge Chamber of Commerce

Promote economic development in the west ridge area community of chicago

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4
Chicago Southland Chamber of Commerce

The chamber provides business referrals and marketing, economic development, and educational training programs.

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5
Evanston Chamber of Commerce

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…

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6
East Edgewater Chamber of Commerce

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.

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7
Northcenter Chamber of Commerce

To advance civic, economic, industrial, professional, and cultural welfare of the business community.

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8
Urban Chamber of Commerce

Create nbsp;an nbsp;innovative nbsp;entreprenuerial nbsp;space nbsp;to nbsp;promote nbsp;local nbsp;and nbsp;global nbsp;business

Community Improvement
9
Highland Park Chamber of Commerce Inc

Local chamber of commerce

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10
Network of Woodlawn

Provide resources for economic development

Human Services
11
Local Economic and Employment Development Council Inc

North Branch Works is a membership-supported nonprofit neighborhood organization that for more than three decades has promoted balanced, job-creating economic development along the North Branch of the Chicago River.

Employment
12
Cook County Black Chamber of Commerce Corporation

To increase black-owned businesses to 60% in County County by 2025. To increase economic growth and development in disinvested communities To advocate for the increase in wealth in black communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Allies for Community Business Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC: $539,375 · Community ImprovementALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC+4 more: $55,000 · Community Improvement+4 moreDEVCORP NORTH DBA ROGERS PARK BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $17,500 · OtherSOUTH EAST CHICAGO COMMISSION: $10,000 · OtherUPTOWN UNITED: $10,000 · OtherGreater Englewood Chamber of Commerce: $15,000 · Employment
Community Improvement$594,375Other$37,500Employment$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC: $539,375 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetDEVCORP NORTH DBA ROGERS PARK BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $17,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWOODLAWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $15,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetGreater Englewood Chamber of Commerce: $15,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetSouth Shore Chamber Community Development Corp: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNEW COVENANT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLOGAN SQUARE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSOUTH EAST CHICAGO COMMISSION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUPTOWN UNITED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Women's Business Deve…Choose Chicago Founda…Local Initiatives Sup…The Chicago Community…United Way of Metropo…Charities Aid Foundat…
Women's Business Development CenterIL16.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Small Business Advocacy Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Small Business Advocacy Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Small Business Advocacy Council?

    Find your warmest path to Small Business Advocacy Council through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 9 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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