Massachusetts · Nonprofit
AMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE
AMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $736,404 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($218,798). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $139k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $736k
- Net assets
- $20k
What American Independent Business Alliance does
Mission
Amiba supports communities in becoming more sustainable and resilient through fostering a culture that values and builds opportunity for community residents. Amiba is an educational, networking, and resource, hub that supports communities design and implement initiatives to support local independent businesses, maintain local entrepreneurship opportunities, and advance resident engagment in directing their community's development.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provide support to affiliate members that offer education and tools for the growth and development of independent business alliances.amiba advises independent business alliances, community nonprofits, and government agencies on how to strengthen their communities and local economies. Amiba provides educational opportunities through workshops, conferences, consulting, and peer- to-peer connections.amiba leverages a database/crm system for amiba affiliates and a robust website that assists them with communication, membership growth, website management, and program production and evaluation.
$94,292 spentof which $94,292 as grants$94,469 earned by the program100% of program spendingBuilding vital and inclusive communities and strong local economiesstaff engage in public education via our website, media appearances, social media and the distribution of educational materials that promote the importance of local economies.we continue providing community presentations and workshops to help support local organizing , public education, organizational development, and strategic planning. These are vital launch pads for community pro-local organizing and independent business alliance development. Our continued networking includes working with a variety of community-based groups in 36 us states and communities of all sizes. Amiba successfully shares dynamic ideas, best practices, and offers initiatives and programs that make a major impact on local economies everywhere. It is an amiba core value that the only way to build strong local economies is to ensure that they are diverse, equitable, and inclusive. We offer workshops and programs to communities in many regions of the us that focus on building diversity in our movement and focusing on creating a more just and fair economy.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $94,292.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $168k to $93k (−44%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 52% · 2021 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of AMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $28k → $16k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 60% · 2019 97% · 2020 75% · 2021 62% · 2022 69% · 2023 63% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
0% of AMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $260k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE's revenue fell 74% between 2020 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like AMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE?
- AMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $736,404 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($218,798). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $736,404 in grants to AMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE?
- INATAI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $218,798 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing