Grants for small business bureaus

Name: Top 25 grants made to small business development organizations
Creator: Cause IQ
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524 small business development organizations received at least $39.9 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 346 grants made from 260 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $2,050. Of these 260 foundations, 86% made just a single grant to small business orgs, and 3% made grants to four or more small business orgs. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$39,918,722

Total grant dollars given to small business bureaus

346

Number of grants made annually to small business bureaus

260

Number of grantmakers funding small business bureaus

$2,050

Median grant size to small business bureaus

Foundations that support small business development organizations

Out of all grants made to small business bureaus, 58% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 98% of the dollar-value of grants to small business orgs. Foundations funding small business orgs also made grants to multiservice human service organizations, food banks, educational service providers, youth development programs, and scholarship organizations.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	153
Medium	47
Large	60

Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type	Number of grantmakers
Community	16
Private	184
Corporate	21
Other	39

Grants made

Grants made to small business orgs	Number of grantmakers
1	225
2-3	27
4-10	6
11+	2

Top 10 foundations supporting small business development organizations

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to small business orgs	Number of grants made to small business orgs	Median grant size
JP Morgan Chase Foundation	NY	National	0.0%	15	$200
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT)	TN	Metro	0.1%	13	$5,000
Hull Family Foundation	DE	National	1.2%	7	$1,000
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.0%	7	$1,000
The Rhode Island Foundation	RI	Metro	0.0%	6	$2,500
Synchrony Foundation	CT	National	0.0%	5	$150
Salesforce Com Foundation	CA	National	0.0%	5	$50
Opus Community Foundation	CA	State	4.3%	4	$5,000
The Columbus Foundation	OH	State	0.0%	3	$5,000
James Irvine Foundation	CA	State	0.0%	3	$3,500

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Small business development organizations grantees

Small business bureaus with more than $5 million in total revenues received 98% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 25% of all small business orgs.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	340
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	6

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$2,000
$100k-$500k	$1,500
$500k-$1M	$2,400
$1M-$5M	$2,500
>$5M	$2,000

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
California	85
New York	29
Washington	20
Minnesota	14
Other	198

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
San Francisco	49
New York City	23
Los Angeles	22
Seattle	16
Other	222

Top 25 grants made to small business bureaus

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
NewSchools Venture Fund (NSVF)	$10,000,000	Improve Public Education	Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation
International Executive Service Corps (IESC)	$9,104,422	Promoting Stability and Prosperity Around the World Through Private Enterprise Development.	Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance
NewSchools Venture Fund (NSVF)	$7,885,000	K-12 Education	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
NewSchools Venture Fund (NSVF)	$6,000,000	Math Executive Function Project	Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation
NewSchools Venture Fund (NSVF)	$3,275,000	Education	Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF)
NewSchools Venture Fund (NSVF)	$3,000,000	K-12 Education	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Maine Center for Entrepreneurs	$5,000	The Purpose of This Gift Was Unprovided By the Contributor	The Casco Foundation
William and Mary Business School Foundation	$5,000	General & Unrestricted	Good Shepherd of Darien Foundation
Namaste Foundation	$5,000	Charitable	The Cortopassi Family Foundation
Los Angeles Urban League	$5,000	For Unrestricted Support	James Irvine Foundation
Ventures	$5,000	Charitable	Byron and Alice Lockwood Foundation
SCORE Association (SCORE)	$5,000	To Develop and Communicate Critical Training on Resilience and Recovery Plans for Nonprofit Clients	Foundation for Delaware County (CCF)
Omaha Small Business Network	$5,000	The House of Afro Capes and Curls	The Lozier Foundation
Junior Achievement of Central Indiana (JACI)	$5,000	Local Community	Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis (JFGI)
Junior Achievement of Central Indiana (JACI)	$5,000	Sponsorship	Eskenazi Health Foundation
Enterprise Center (TEC)	$5,000	Unrestricted Grant	The Harry and Catherine Halloran Family Trust
The Business Center For Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise	$5,000	General	Clarence A Rowell #2
Mi Casa Resource Center	$5,000	Program Services	Insurance Management Associates Foundation
Reconcile New Orleans	$5,000	Education, Recreation & Opportunities for Children	Woldenberg Foundation
Inquiring Systems	$5,000	Project Support: the Teaching Well	Novo Foundation
Social Venture Network (SVN)	$5,000	General Support	The Nathan Cummings Foundation
Beaufort Cty Black Chamber of Commerce	$5,000	Microgrant Program	USBC Economic Development Corporation
Jewish Free Loan Association	$5,000	General Operating Support	Teshinsky Family Foundation Fred & Lucy Teshinsky Trustees
Jewish Free Loan Association	$5,000	Unrestricted	Lon V. Smith Foundation
Grameen America	$5,000	General Support	The Blackstone Charitable Foundation

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Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Small business bureaus" category for this page is determined by the "S43: Management Services for Small Business, Entrepreneurs" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.