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West Enterprise Center Inc

West Enterprise Center Inc (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $479,549 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MENDOCINO COUNTY ($298,911). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.5M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$480k
Net assets
$329k
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What West Enterprise Center Inc does

Mission

West Enterprise Center, Inc.s mission is to educate and advocate for small businesses so that local entrepreneurs receive the information that they need to launch and expand their businesses.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Assists micro-businesses to grow creating self-sufficiency and wealth for the community through technical assistance and community economic development. Programs include Womens Business Center, Small Business Development Center, Rural Business Development, Centro Latino West, Start Up Mendocino and Community Economic Development. Assists micro-businesses to grow creating self-sufficiency and wealth for the community through technical assistance and community economic development. Programs include Womens Business Center, Small Business Development Center, Rural Business Development, Centro Latino West, Start Up Mendocino and Community Economic Development.

    $1,324,710 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,324,710.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($429k) Expenses 100 ($421k) Net assets 100 ($78k)2018 Revenue 119 ($512k) Expenses 107 ($450k) Net assets 173 ($135k)2019 Revenue 149 ($640k) Expenses 140 ($590k) Net assets 237 ($185k)2020 Revenue 235 ($1.0M) Expenses 202 ($849k) Net assets 443 ($347k)2021 Revenue 306 ($1.3M) Expenses 278 ($1.2M) Net assets 625 ($489k)2022 Revenue 241 ($1.0M) Expenses 251 ($1.1M) Net assets 590 ($462k)2023 Revenue 268 ($1.2M) Expenses 281 ($1.2M) Net assets 549 ($430k)2024 Revenue 257 ($1.1M) Expenses 278 ($1.2M) Net assets 467 ($365k)2025 Revenue 351 ($1.5M) Expenses 367 ($1.5M) Net assets 421 ($329k)
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Revenue (351)Expenses (367)Net assets (421)Peer revenue range

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 $301k to $646k (+115%).

$153k
$204k
$301k
$646k
$563k
$627k
$571k
$582k
$600k
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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
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2020
2021
2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 95% · 2018 95% · 2019 98% · 2020 88% · 2021 100% · 2022 67% · 2023 68% · 2024 73% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of West Enterprise Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (72% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 636 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’17
$62k
’18
$50k
’19
$161k
’20
$142k
’21
−$24k
’22
−$32k
’23
−$65k
’24
−$36k
’25
1.2
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.

Chief executive

Sarah Bodnar

CEO

Board chair

Dr Timonthy Karas

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

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Listed71199121097
Joined··+1+0+9+0+0+1
No longer listed··306213
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $15k → $26k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 West Enterprise 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

West Enterprise Center Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

64% 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 West Enterprise Center Inc.

62%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 45% · 2023 38% — 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.

Where its funders are

62% of West Enterprise Center Inc'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 $181k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.

MN
OR
CT
CA

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

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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $299k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

West Enterprise Center Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 369 unclassified nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 369 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding West Enterprise Center Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.2M on record.

Federal$2.2M
grants $2.2Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Small Business Administration$2.1M
  • Department of Agriculture$179k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 1%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for West Enterprise 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 West Enterprise Center Inc?
West Enterprise Center Inc (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $479,549 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MENDOCINO COUNTY ($298,911). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does West Enterprise Center Inc have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $479,549 in grants to West Enterprise Center Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of West Enterprise Center Inc?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MENDOCINO COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $298,911 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like West Enterprise 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.

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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 2017–2025), 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