California · Nonprofit
THE NASDAQ ENTREPRENEURIAL CENTER INC
THE NASDAQ ENTREPRENEURIAL CENTER INC (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,810,632 to it, the largest being Wells Fargo Foundation ($1,100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center Inc does
Mission
Established in 2014, the nasdaq entrepreneurial center (the "center") is an independent charity dedicated to educating the public about entrepreneurship and educating individual entrepreneurs on subjects useful to them and beneficial to the community. The center is also dedicated to improving access and knowledge to communities under-represented in entrepreneurial endeavors.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
We're honored to have worked with over 90,000 entrepreneurs since 2014, over half of whom are women and more than 60% of whom are under-resourced. The center meets the real time needs of entrepreneurs through educational programming and then shares its learnings with policy-leaders, capital allocators and academic institutions. To date, over 10,000 hours of free technical assistance and mentoring support has been provided by over 250 teaching experts in support of advancing access and equity in entrepreneurship. Based on convergent work from quantitative analysis on entrepreneur data and policy landscape scan we are in a unique position to use existing research to inform a model to identify cities that score the highest in building an ecosystem of support for venture backed/aspiring under-resourced founderswhich is now underway of activating a network of city leaders and policy champions in support of healthy entrepreneurial ecosystems that will inspire the next wave of cities to have actionable insights that drive positive outcomes across all stakeholder groups.
$3,692,041 spentof which $432,500 as grants$38,678 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,692,041.
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 2023 to 2024, from $9.4M to $6.1M (−35%).
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.
96% of THE NASDAQ ENTREPRENEURIAL CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Nicola Corzine
Executive director and secretary
Board chair
Jailan Griffiths
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $4k → $62k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 THE NASDAQ ENTREPRENEURIAL CENTER 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
THE NASDAQ ENTREPRENEURIAL CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 97% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 93% · 2022 100% · 2023 81% — 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 THE NASDAQ ENTREPRENEURIAL CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
THE NASDAQ ENTREPRENEURIAL CENTER INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k 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
THE NASDAQ ENTREPRENEURIAL CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE NASDAQ ENTREPRENEURIAL CENTER 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
35%
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 THE NASDAQ ENTREPRENEURIAL CENTER INC: 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 THE NASDAQ ENTREPRENEURIAL CENTER INC?
- THE NASDAQ ENTREPRENEURIAL CENTER INC (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,810,632 to it, the largest being Wells Fargo Foundation ($1,100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE NASDAQ ENTREPRENEURIAL CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,810,632 in grants to THE NASDAQ ENTREPRENEURIAL CENTER INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NASDAQ ENTREPRENEURIAL CENTER INC?
- Wells Fargo Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NASDAQ ENTREPRENEURIAL CENTER INC 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.
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 9 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