Texas · Nonprofit
SQUARE MILE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
SQUARE MILE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $610,973 to it, the largest being AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC ($328,226). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $611k
- Net assets
- $27k
What Square Mile Community Development does
Mission
We believe in creating opportunity by building a network of community organizations nonprofits entrepreneurs small business owners and community members to revitalize under-resourced neighborhoods using an empowerment-based model of community engagement to bring renewal and restoration. Our model focuses on five key areas that define a thriving neighborhood: economic development housing health education and spiritual care. We are bringing businesses churches nonprofits and individuals together to make sure all our families and all our neighborhoods have access to each of these key areas.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
PATH is community & economic development through entrepreneurship. PATH is a program of Square Mile Community Development that facilitates small business development in neighborhoods challenged by poverty & unemployment. We provide low to moderate-income individuals with the tools coaching and access to capital needed to transform their businesses and their communities.By developing an entrepreneurial core within a neighborhood we can impact nearly every facet of that environment and can bring about positive change in a shorter time with less spending than almost any other type of work. PATH focuses on minorities refugees women veterans and low-income individuals and has served over 70 clients free of charge.
$5,302 spentof which $10,000 as grants15% of program spendingSquare Mile is dedicated to finding sustainable and long-term solutions to combat hunger and food insecurity in our region and to develop replicable models that can be utilized anywhere in the world. We are working with small local and urban food producers and food-related businesses in order to create a stronger local food ecosystem and economy. In addition to working on regional and local food issues we also distribute locally grown produce through our two urban farm projects as well as meat to under-resourced schools churches organizations and families. One of our local partners generously supplies us with F-1 Wagyu beef which we are able to provide to the community. Since 2019 we have distributed over 800,000 pounds of meat produce and dairy to our local community. We know that distributions do not solve the underlying issues but it helps our neighbors while we work toward more comprehensive solutions.We serve between 75-300 individuals per month.
$7,548 spent21% of program spendingn February of 2022 Square Mile Community Development partnered with two other local organizations to open The PLACE. This facility is a collaborative effort between mi2 Refugee Language Project and We Find In Love. It is our regions first and only multicultural community center focused on international refugees. Our organizations saw a great need in our community to provide adequate and holistic support services to the different refugee groups in our community and took action to create a place to meet these needs. The PLACE is an acronym for the Place for Language Art Culture and Economic Development. The PLACE provides English classes meeting space computer and art programs educational opportunities and small business consultation through mi2s PATH Program. Square Miles role is to help create new small businesses provide food support social work services and provide cultural and language support each week. We currently serve 150 refugees per week.
$22,949 spentof which $50,000 as grants64% of program spendingAt Square Mile we have a long-standing philosophy of paying it forward. It is our belief that if we have connections advice or information to share with other new or existing businesses we should do so. We advocate for holistic development on every level in rural and urban communities. We have over 25 years of experience working in multicultural under-resourced urban and rural communities both domestically and internationally. We specialize in cross-cultural relationships and communication poverty issues strategic community impact and development as well as urban farming small business development and community outreach initiatives. Our team has assisted other nonprofits businesses government entities and churches domestically and internationally to develop and implement strategies to be more effective in reaching their goals and building their communities. We have served over two dozen organizations over the past year.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,799.
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 $118k to $55k (−53%).
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.
100% of SQUARE MILE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Braden Clark
Executive Director
Board chair
Jennifer Nickle
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $7k → $174k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 SQUARE MILE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT’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
SQUARE MILE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 SQUARE MILE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 58% · 2022 63% · 2023 83% — 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
40% of SQUARE MILE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT's funders are still giving 2 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
55% of SQUARE MILE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $278k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $333k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SQUARE MILE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT has grown faster than half of the 11,535 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,535 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like SQUARE MILE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
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In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SQUARE MILE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT?
- SQUARE MILE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $610,973 to it, the largest being AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC ($328,226). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SQUARE MILE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $610,973 in grants to SQUARE MILE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SQUARE MILE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT?
- AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $328,226 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SQUARE MILE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), 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