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Women's Business Enterprise National Council

Wbenc's mission is to fuel economic growth globally by identifying, certifying, and facilitating the development of women-owned businesses.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$320k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$13MEducation$3.3MHuman Services$752kEmployment$299k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $2,774,006, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,998,290 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $224,284 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+3 grants · $902k
$192,555
Median grant
13
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER MIDWEST$319,512
WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE COUNCIL WEST$302,422
WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE COUNCIL METRO NY$280,226
WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE CENTER EAST$239,720
GREAT LAKES WOMEN'S BUSINESS COUNCIL$211,976
WOMEN'S BUSINESS COUNCIL SOUTHWEST$194,219
GREATER WOMEN'S BUSINESS COUNCIL$192,555
WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE COUNCIL PACIFIC$163,479
WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE COUNCIL SOUTH$162,258
WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE COUNCIL GREATER DMV$159,484
WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE COUNCIL OHIO RIVER VALLEY$159,373
WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE COUNCIL FLORIDA$157,375
WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE$130,297
CENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE$101,110
02The need
03

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE COUNCIL OHIO RIVER VALLEY: $196k → 16%WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE COUNCIL OHIO RIVER VALLEY: $173k → 16%WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE COUNCIL OHIO RIVER VALLEY: $159k → 16%OHIO RIVER VALLEY WOMEN'S BUSINESS COUNCIL: $133k → 16%WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE COUNCIL OHIO RIVER VALLEY: $128k → 16%WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE COUNCIL OHIO RIVER VALLEY: $117k → 16%OHIO RIVER VALLEY WOMEN'S BUSINESS COUNCIL: $110k → 16%WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE COUNCIL OHIO RIVER VALLEY: $94k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
AZ
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 13 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
0

Total granted

$17M
$0

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsEmploymentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WM
    WBEC METRO NY AND GREATER DMV INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +73%
  • AW
    ARIZONA WOMENS BUSINESS ENTERPRISE COUNCIL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +46% · 26% of their budget
  • WB
    WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +262%

Funded once

    How this is measured

    Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

    04Its 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.

    1
    Women's Business Enterprise National Council

    Wbenc's mission is to fuel economic growth globally by identifying, certifying, and facilitating the development of women-owned businesses.

    Civil Rights
    2
    Womens Center for Economic Opportunity

    Our mission is to elevate & empower under-resourced business owners, leaders and innovators with pathways to the capital customers, contracts and connections needed to become financially secure

    Education
    3
    Womenventure

    To empower women to achieve their economic goals by building profitable and sustainable businesses that transform communities.

    Community Improvement
    4
    Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation

    Wwbic opens the doors of opportunity by providing any individuals who are interested in starting, strengthening, or expanding businesses with access to resources such as financial products and quality business and personal financial…

    —
    5
    Womens Executive Alliance
    Philanthropy
    6
    Association of Women's Business Centers

    The awbc works to secure economic justice and entrepreneurial opportunities for women by supporting and sustaining a national network of over 100 women's business centers (wbcs).

    Employment
    7
    Women Employed

    To improve the economic status of women and remove barriers to economic equity.

    Employment
    8
    Womens Center for Entrepreneuship Corp

    United in common organization women in new jersey professionally engaged in business, formulate, mantain, and promote mutual interest of women business owners, provide support for women in business through education

    Community Improvement
    9
    The Women's Edge

    Promote women entrepreneurship

    Education
    10
    Forum of Executive Women

    Our core mission is to bring together, and leverage the influence of, professional women to expand the impact and power of women in the workplace and beyond.our vision is that women will achieve (continued on schedule o)equitable…

    —
    11
    Wyoming Womens Business Center

    The Wyoming Womens Business Center strives to advance self-sufficiency by promoting economic justice and equality throughout Wyoming. To achieve the mission the WWBC provides services that foster the creation and expansion of small…

    Community Improvement
    12
    Women's Business Development Council Inc

    The mission of the women's business development council (wbdc) is to support economic prosperity for women and strengthen communities through entrepreneurial and financial education services that create and grow sustainable jobs and…

    Education
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women Business Enterprise Council South; the most unlike its peers is Astra Society International Dba Womens Business Ent Council Pacific. 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

    13 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.

    2
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    7
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    13/13
    Grantees still filing
    13/13
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1,935,178 · OtherWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CEN…GREAT LAKES WOMEN'S BUSINESS COUNCIL: $1,668,629 · OtherGREAT LAKES WOMEN'S BUSINESS COU…WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE CENTER EAST: $1,394,831 · OtherWOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE CENT…WBEC METRO NY AND GREATER DMV INC: $2,680,000 · EducationWBEC METRO NY AND GREAT…ASTRA SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DBA Womens Business Ent Council Pacific: $891,554 · EducationASTRA SOCIETY INTERNATI…ARIZONA WOMENS BUSINESS ENTERPRISE COUNCIL: $1,984,768 · Community ImprovementARIZONA WOMENS BUSINE…GREATER WOMEN'S BUSINESS COUNCIL INC: $1,279,944 · Community ImprovementGREATER WOMEN'S BUSIN…WOMEN'S BUSINESS COUNCIL - SOUTHWEST: $1,171,639 · Civil RightsWOMEN'S BUSIN…WOMEN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE COUNCIL SOUTH: $899,991 · Civil RightsWOMEN BUSINES…WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $849,967 · EmploymentWOMEN'S B…CENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC: $601,299 · EmploymentCENTER FO…URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO INC: $1,111,392 · Human ServicesHOUSTON WOMENS BUSINESS COUNCIL INC DBA WOMENS BUSINESS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE: $756,310 · Philanthropy
    Other$4,998,638Education$3,571,554Community Improvement$3,264,712Civil Rights$2,071,630Employment$1,451,266Human Services$1,111,392Philanthropy$756,310

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

    25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWBEC METRO NY AND GREATER DMV INC: $2,680,000 over 8y, 21% of budgetARIZONA WOMENS BUSINESS ENTERPRISE COUNCIL: $1,984,768 over 8y, 26% of budgetWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1,935,178 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetGREAT LAKES WOMEN'S BUSINESS COUNCIL: $1,668,629 over 8y, 16% of budgetWOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE CENTER EAST: $1,394,831 over 8y, 25% of budgetGREATER WOMEN'S BUSINESS COUNCIL INC: $1,279,944 over 8y, 23% of budgetWOMEN'S BUSINESS COUNCIL - SOUTHWEST: $1,171,639 over 8y, 11% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO INC: $1,111,392 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetWOMEN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE COUNCIL SOUTH: $899,991 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetASTRA SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DBA Womens Business Ent Council Pacific: $891,554 over 8y, 15% of budgetWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $849,967 over 8y, 18% of budgetHOUSTON WOMENS BUSINESS COUNCIL INC DBA WOMENS BUSINESS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE: $756,310 over 8y, 12% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC: $601,299 over 8y, 2.5% 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.

    • Who funds WBEC METRO NY AND GREATER DMV INC ↗
    • Who funds ARIZONA WOMENS BUSINESS ENTERPRISE COUNCIL ↗
    • Who funds WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
    • Who funds GREAT LAKES WOMEN'S BUSINESS COUNCIL ↗
    • Who funds WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE CENTER EAST ↗
    • Who funds GREATER WOMEN'S BUSINESS COUNCIL INC ↗
    • Who funds WOMEN'S BUSINESS COUNCIL - SOUTHWEST ↗
    • Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO INC ↗
    • Who funds WOMEN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE COUNCIL SOUTH ↗
    • Who funds ASTRA SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DBA Womens Business Ent Council Pacific ↗
    • Who funds WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
    • Who funds HOUSTON WOMENS BUSINESS COUNCIL INC DBA WOMENS BUSINESS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE ↗
    • Who funds CENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC ↗

    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.

    Charities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
    Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA10.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

    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 Women's Business Enterprise National Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Women's Business Enterprise National Council. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24
    no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
    • Center for Women & Enterprise Inc: 27% of income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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