California · Nonprofit
Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center
Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center (California) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,364,804 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,106,497). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center does
Mission
Renaissance's mission is to transform lives and communities through entrepreneurship.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Renaissance Peninsula: In 2024, Renaissance Peninsula, which includes San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Unincorporated Alameda Counties, served 898 individuals, 73% of whom were lower-income. Our services included a mixture of online and in-person training. Our online training continues to be highly effective for clients who are skilled in using technology and have appropriate access to technology. We trained in technology basics (how to use Zoom, email, Google Classroom) and provided Chromebooks to individuals who rely solely on their phones for internet access. 323 businesses were served, and businesses received $403K in business capital.
$3,068,944 spent$37,020 earned by the program53% of program spendingRenaissance SoMa (South of Market San Francisco) was our largest San Francisco hub for entrepreneurs and is home to the Women's Business Center (WBC) in partnership with the USSBA. In 2024, SoMa and the WBC served 442 small businesses. Services included 1,239 hours of one-on-one advising, 172 workshops and courses on business planning, financial management, bookkeeping, operations, and management, with specialized trainings for starting a food business, launching a childcare business, and navigating contracting and procurement. We also offered sessions in digital marketing, e-commerce, AI, technology integration, and access to capital. Our low-to-no-cost programming, along with events such as Women Mean Business, Coffee and Community, and marketplaces, connected business owners with new customers and collaborators.
$1,291,403 spent$267,091 earned by the program22% of program spendingRenaissance East Bay provided small business training, one-on-one consulting, and access to capital, networks and other resources to traditionally underserved individuals in Alameda and Contra Costa counties with an emphasis on the cities of Richmond, Antioch, Oakland and Pittsburg. We engaged motivated emerging and established entrepreneurs from communities that lack small business investment, educational resources, and entrepreneurial histories, and face discrimination by race, gender, sexual orientation, economic class, or past incarceration. Our clients are 93% very-low-to-moderate income.
$805,785 spent$1,000 earned by the program14% of program spendingRenaissance Bayview: In 2024, Renaissance continued to provide virtual and in-person business support services to aspiring and emerging entrepreneurs in Bayview Hunters Point, one of the most marginalized and under-resourced communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through our Contractors Initiative, Renaissance Bayview worked intensively with small construction businesses, delivering training and mentoring support, while helping small business owners secure contracts that created quality jobs for residents in the community. We also provided business support services to brick-and-mortar retail businesses throughout the city with a primary focus on the communities of Fillmore, Visitacion Valley and Bayview Hunters Point.
$641,047 spentof which $12,000 as grants$46,594 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,807,179.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2019 to 2020, from $3.6M to $5.0M (+39%).
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: 2017 34% · 2018 41% · 2019 35% · 2020 68% · 2021 38% · 2022 65% · 2023 52% · 2024 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Sharon Miller
CEO
Board chair
Alison Davis
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $552k → $2.2M.
22 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 funders by total. 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
Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
48% 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 Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 25% · 2019 32% · 2020 19% · 2021 26% · 2022 21% · 2023 31% — growing more concentrated.
“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
44% of Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
51% of Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center has grown faster than half of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.7M on record.
- Small Business Administration$1.7M
- Department of Commerce$1.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center: 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 Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center?
- Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center (California) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,364,804 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,106,497). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $10,364,804 in grants to Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,106,497 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 69 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