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APOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC

APOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC (Puerto Rico) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,076,374 to it, the largest being GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC ($1,697,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.6M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$6.1M
Net assets
$323k
8/21 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Apoyo Legal Al Emprendimiento Comunitario Inc does

Mission

Professional organization that seeks to represent and advance the legal aspects of community-based and faith-based social enterprises committed to promoting the social economic development of Puerto Rico.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. This year, ALECI provided educational workshops and direct legal services to OSFL and Social Enterprises such as Comedores Sociales de Puerto Rico, BoriDoulas Inc, EcoRecursos Comunitarios Inc, Propiedad de Trabajadoras Costura Sin Límites, Instituto Socio-Económico Comunitario Inc, Crear con Salud, among others. Additionally, as a fiscal sponsor, it offered its services not only by facilitating access to donations but also by supporting beneficiaries in compliance and accountability processes with donors. This included organizations such as Iniciativa de Ecodesarrollo de Bahía Jobos (IDEBAJO) in Salinas, Finca Alvolante Inc in Las Marías, and the Instituto para la Investigación y Acción en Agroecología (IALA-PR) in San Juan. We also assisted in reviewing deeds and provided advice on purchase and sale processes, among other services, as part of the Acceso a Tierras campaign led by IALA-PR.

    $1,240,187 spentof which $1,581,731 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,240,187.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($17k) Expenses 100 ($15k) Net assets 100 ($3k)2023 Revenue 630 ($106k) Expenses 715 ($104k) Net assets 155 ($5k)2024 Revenue 9401 ($1.6M) Expenses 8676 ($1.3M) Net assets 10165 ($323k)
202220232024
Revenue (9401)Expenses (8676)Net assets (10165)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.5M to $344k (−86%).

$2.5M
$344k
$326k
202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of APOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,392 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’22
$2k
’23
$319k
’24
3.1
months of
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.

202220232024
Listed666
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $12k → $1.9M.

6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 APOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC’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

APOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

89% 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 APOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC.

28%
largest funder
66%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 79% · 2022 49% · 2023 35% — 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

46% of APOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

APOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Puerto Rico, across 7 states in all.

MN
NY
MA
IN
CA
MD
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’22
’23
Puerto Rico out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

APOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)870% · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like APOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC

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 Puerto Rico

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 1%Fundraising 1%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds APOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC?
APOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC (Puerto Rico) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,076,374 to it, the largest being GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC ($1,697,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does APOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $6,076,374 in grants to APOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of APOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC?
GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,697,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like APOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Puerto Rico. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 21 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