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THE SMALL ENTERPRISE EDUCATION AND PROMOTION NETWORK INC

THE SMALL ENTERPRISE EDUCATION AND PROMOTION NETWORK INC (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,600,498 to it, the largest being MASTERCARD FOUNDATION ($2,967,035). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2020
$1.5M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$4.6M
Net assets
$-438059
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01What it does

What The Small Enterprise Education and Promotion Network Inc does

Mission

The seep network's mission is to empower our members to be effective agents of change and to enhance their collective ability to accelerate learning and scale impact.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.

Program

Responsible finance - seep provides organizational and financial support to micro-finance associations to address capacity gaps in areas that are crucial to their successful promotion of responsible finance. Our suite of tools and expertise seeks to help associations accelerate their development, expand and improve their product and service offerings and contribute to industry-wide innovation.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.1M) Expenses 100 ($3.2M) Net assets 100 ($329k)2018 Revenue 109 ($3.4M) Expenses 109 ($3.4M) Net assets 77 ($254k)2019 Revenue 87 ($2.7M) Expenses 87 ($2.8M) Net assets 59 ($195k)2020 Revenue 48 ($1.5M) Expenses 67 ($2.1M) Net assets -133 ($-438059)
2017201820192020
Revenue (48)Expenses (67)Net assets (-133)

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 $1.7M to $1.0M (−38%).

$1.6M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$1.0M
2017201820192020
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 9% · 2018 9% · 2019 5% · 2020 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$64k
’17
−$76k
’18
−$59k
’19
−$633k
’20
4.7
months of
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.

2017201820192020
Listed16141413
Joined·+4+6+0
No longer listed·661
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $1.1M → $20k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
total
$3.0M
funders
2
2
3
1
3
1

1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 SMALL ENTERPRISE EDUCATION AND PROMOTION NETWORK 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 SMALL ENTERPRISE EDUCATION AND PROMOTION NETWORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

75% 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 THE SMALL ENTERPRISE EDUCATION AND PROMOTION NETWORK INC.

64%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 99% · 2019 82% · 2020 100% · 2021 52% · 2022 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

THE SMALL ENTERPRISE EDUCATION AND PROMOTION NETWORK INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 4 states in all.

WA
CT
NC
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding THE SMALL ENTERPRISE EDUCATION AND PROMOTION NETWORK INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $703k on record.

Federal$703k
grants $703kcontracts $0
17
19
20
Top agencies
  • Agency for International Development$703k

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 THE SMALL ENTERPRISE EDUCATION AND PROMOTION NETWORK 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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

58% of spending goes to programs.

Program 58%Management 39%Fundraising 3%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE SMALL ENTERPRISE EDUCATION AND PROMOTION NETWORK INC?
THE SMALL ENTERPRISE EDUCATION AND PROMOTION NETWORK INC (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,600,498 to it, the largest being MASTERCARD FOUNDATION ($2,967,035). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE SMALL ENTERPRISE EDUCATION AND PROMOTION NETWORK INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $4,600,498 in grants to THE SMALL ENTERPRISE EDUCATION AND PROMOTION NETWORK INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE SMALL ENTERPRISE EDUCATION AND PROMOTION NETWORK INC?
MASTERCARD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,967,035 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE SMALL ENTERPRISE EDUCATION AND PROMOTION NETWORK INC 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), 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