Alabama · Nonprofit
ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER FOR GROWTH AND EXCELLENCE
ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER FOR GROWTH AND EXCELLENCE (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being REGIONS FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $481k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $481k
What Entrepreneurship Center for Growth and Excellence does
Mission
The Entrepreneurship Center for Growth and Excellence is Birminghams central hub for entrepreneurs, driving a best-in-class, data-driven strategy that connects small businesses to the knowledge, tools, and resources they need while coordinating the ecosystem to spark revenue...
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Center has 4 primary purposes: to serve as a front door for entrepreneurs, drive strategy that leads to an increase in employer jobs, firms, and revenue, convene the busienss ecosystem, and connect entrepreneurs to other entrepreneurs.
$151 spent$480,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $151.
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.
Chief executive
Kendra Key
Executive director
Board chair
Leroy Abrahams
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER FOR GROWTH AND EXCELLENCE’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.
Where its funders are
100% of ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER FOR GROWTH AND EXCELLENCE's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER FOR GROWTH AND EXCELLENCE receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,668 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER FOR GROWTH AND EXCELLENCE
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER FOR GROWTH AND EXCELLENCE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER FOR GROWTH AND EXCELLENCE?
- ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER FOR GROWTH AND EXCELLENCE (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being REGIONS FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER FOR GROWTH AND EXCELLENCE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100,000 in grants to ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER FOR GROWTH AND EXCELLENCE.
- Who is the largest funder of ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER FOR GROWTH AND EXCELLENCE?
- REGIONS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER FOR GROWTH AND EXCELLENCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing