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Small Business Empowerment Fund Cdfi

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, primarily in the St. Louis City and county.

$780k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
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Median grant, FY2025
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$300,000
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$1.3M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2025 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Small Business Empowerment Center$600,000119%
Freddie Lee's Gourmet Souces$30,2001n/a
Davis Auto Repair and Ton$30,0001n/a
Polaris Bhm$30,0001n/a
Under Grace Home Health Agency$30,0001n/a
Yol You Only Live$30,0001n/a
The TUF Club Fitness and Wellness Center$30,0001n/a
Innergy Transformation Studios$30,0001n/a
The GEM Factory LLC$30,0001n/a
AMRI Counseling Services$30,0001n/a
Show all 17 grantees
All grantees of Small Business Empowerment Fund Cdfi by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Small Business Empowerment Center$600,000119%
Freddie Lee's Gourmet Souces$30,2001n/a
Davis Auto Repair and Ton$30,0001n/a
Polaris Bhm$30,0001n/a
Under Grace Home Health Agency$30,0001n/a
Yol You Only Live$30,0001n/a
The TUF Club Fitness and Wellness Center$30,0001n/a
Innergy Transformation Studios$30,0001n/a
The GEM Factory LLC$30,0001n/a
AMRI Counseling Services$30,0001n/a
Kingsway Development$30,0001n/a
HoneyBee Sage Wellness & Apotherapy LLC$30,0001n/a
Hair Artist Studio LLC dba Helix & Twine$30,0001n/a
The Urban Oyster$30,0001n/a
Sherman Park Grocery$30,0001n/a
Bama Health Foods LLC$30,0001n/a
Centro Internacional De Maternidad$30,0001n/a

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About Small Business Empowerment Fund Cdfi

How much does Small Business Empowerment Fund Cdfi give?
Small Business Empowerment Fund Cdfi reported 18 grants totaling $780,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Small Business Empowerment Fund Cdfi fund?
By grant dollars over FY2025 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (61%), Health (11%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
Who are Small Business Empowerment Fund Cdfi's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2025 to FY2025: Small Business Empowerment Center ($600k), Freddie Lee's Gourmet Souces ($30k), Davis Auto Repair and Ton ($30k).
Where is Small Business Empowerment Fund Cdfi based?
Small Business Empowerment Fund Cdfi is based in MO.

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 17 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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