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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.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k16 grants · $480k
- $250k+2 grants · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Small Business Empowerment Center | $300,000 |
| Small Business Empowerment Center | $300,000 |
| Freddie Lee's Gourmet Souces | $30,200 |
| Kingsway Development | $30,000 |
| Hair Artist Studio LLC dba Helix & Twine | $30,000 |
| Innergy Transformation Studios | $30,000 |
| Sherman Park Grocery | $30,000 |
| AMRI Counseling Services | $30,000 |
| Centro Internacional De Maternidad | $30,000 |
| Yol You Only Live | $30,000 |
| Polaris Bhm | $30,000 |
| Davis Auto Repair and Ton | $30,000 |
| The GEM Factory LLC | $30,000 |
| The Urban Oyster | $30,000 |
| Under Grace Home Health Agency | $30,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
1 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. 1 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Small Business Empowerment Fund Cdfi funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Small Business Empowerment Fund Cdfi. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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