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Spokane Independent Metro Business Alliance

SIMBA is a 501c3 non-profit creating a strong, locally-focused economy in Spokane and Eastern Washington through organizing, education, direct support, and advocacy to entrepreneurs, small business owners, and consumers.

$98k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2025
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Itemized, FY2025
$52k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,450
Largest grant, FY2025
$16,625
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$133k

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
Vertical Elements Ent$16,6251n/a
Live From Somewhere Studios$10,9721n/a
MAS Othello$10,4501n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($14k), not named here.

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About Spokane Independent Metro Business Alliance

How much does Spokane Independent Metro Business Alliance give?
Spokane Independent Metro Business Alliance reported 5 itemized grants totaling $52,043, out of $97,994 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.
Who are Spokane Independent Metro Business Alliance's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2025 to FY2025: Vertical Elements Ent ($17k), Live From Somewhere Studios ($11k), MAS Othello ($10k).
Where is Spokane Independent Metro Business Alliance based?
Spokane Independent Metro Business Alliance is based in WA.

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 5 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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