Virginia · Nonprofit
SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL
SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,000 to it, the largest being NCTA - THE INTERNET & TELEVISION ASSOCIATION ($70,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $240k
- Net assets
- $932k
What Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council does
Mission
SBE Council works to promote entrepreneurship and protect small business. SBE Council advocates for entrepreneurs and stronger entrepreneurship by encouraging policies, legislative solutions and private-sector initiatives that improve the ecosystem and climate for business startup and growth. SBE Council conducts research and educational campaigns and engages directly with elected and government officials, small business owners and business leaders, educators, the media, and the policy community to achieve these goals. We create and distribute educational content for entrepreneurs and those individuals who want to start businesses to help them succeed in the marketplace, and to become effective advocates for their businesses.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Advocacy and Outreach: SBE Council's advocacy work focused on advancing policy solutions that addressed the top pain points of small business owners such as inflation, tax complexity and uncertainty, higher borrowing costs and tighter capital access, labor market shortages, growing health care costs, tariff uncertainty, intellectual property (IP) concerns, and regulatory burdens. We continued advocacy efforts and outreach on the benefits of digital tools and artificial intelligence (AI) and the policies that would help small businesses and startups adopt and retain access to free and low-cost tools. SBE Council monitored and commented on 9 significant regulatory initiatives within the federal agencies including proposals at the Department of Labor (DOL) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for example - to ensure the regulatory process was being properly followed by federal agencies and small business impacts were properly considered. SBE Council distributed 59 letters to Congress, which addressed legislative solutions in the areas of rightsizing federal rules and compliance, access to capital, affordable choices in health coverage, and taxes and tax certainty. On tax policy, SBE…
$409,208 spent45% of program spendingResearch & Analysis: SBE Council produced research reports, small business surveys, issue briefs and analysis on issues that helped to keep elected officials, policy leaders in government, entrepreneurs, the media and general public better informed on the importance of entrepreneurship and small businesses to the U.S. economy and how small firms and business creation are impacted by specific policies that are being proposed or advanced. In addition to the regular daily content authored by SBE Council's economic team (147 briefs were produced for the year), various special reports and research included our "Small Business Check Up Survey" (produced quarterly) to better help government officials understand how small businesses were navigating key issues and market events such as inflation, artificial intelligence (AI), workforce shortages, tariffs, uncertainty with regard to expiring tax credits and measures, capital access challenges, and rapid digitization. The "Checkup Survey" produced important and timely data, which played a role in helping lawmakers, policy leaders and the media better understand small business priorities, how they were responding to challenges and current…
$272,806 spent30% of program spendingEducation: SBE Council published and distributed educational and "how to" content and hosted events to provide startups and small business owners with updates on tools, trends and forces to help them more successfully launch and grow their businesses. SBE Council's "Business Intelligence" tips and trends for entrepreneurs was produced 27 times, along with 57 Small Business Insider blog posts featuring "how to" information, advice and guidance for business owners on topics ranging from market trends, emerging digital tools and social media developments, new tax provisions and changes within the Working Families Tax Cuts, regulatory developments/changes and compliance responsibilities, protecting intellectual property, how small businesses are adopting AI to address various challenges, workforce trends, access to capital developments and changes to various Small Business Administration loan programs, dealing with tariff uncertainty, among other issues. SBE Council's president participated in 27 online webinars and in-person forums on various topics and issues including digital tools, where the economy was headed, the agenda of the new Administration and Congress and the small…
$181,870 spent20% of program spendingOther - Media and Communications: Media and earned media remained an important channel for SBE Council to educate on key issues facing entrepreneurs, the policies and resources that entrepreneurs and small businesses need to compete and succeed, and how small businesses were faring given various uncertainties, new political leadership in Washington, D.C. and market developments. SBE Council utilized a range of media channels and tools to help educate entrepreneurs and the public about the issues and challenges facing small businesses, which helped to build awareness and support for the policies and resources that small businesses need. The media and media platforms remained an invaluable platform for sharing how-to and business intelligence information and SBE Council remained a key resource for the media in providing information and content for their stories and specials. SBE Council communicated with and through the media in a variety of ways - via interviews, radio and television appearances, and through in-person and online events. Our team published 13 Op-Eds, released 44 press releases or statements, participated in 14 podcasts, distributed 52 Small Business Insider e-news…
$45,469 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $909,353.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $462k to $851k (+84%).
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.
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 narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $35k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL’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
SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 78% · 2019 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 50% · 2022 71% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL: 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 SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL?
- SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,000 to it, the largest being NCTA - THE INTERNET & TELEVISION ASSOCIATION ($70,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $240,000 in grants to SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL?
- NCTA - THE INTERNET & TELEVISION ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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