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11 funders with a record of paying for “microbusiness”
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Niagara County Development CorporationSanborn, NYCharity · may take applications
73 matching grants · $2.5M · through 2025Largest: $187,000 to GRIFFON BREWING INC — microbusiness development
Largest: $100,000 to AFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCES INC — this grant builds on a previous community innovation grant aimed at elevating the profile of microbusinesses, accessing data on needs and practices, and creating a pipeline to reso…
Largest: $20,000 to BROOKLYN NAVY YARD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — m/wbe microbusiness support program
Largest: $75,000 to Asian Economic Development Association — to support the little mekong market cooperative and incubator, which will create up to 50 microbusinesses and anchor wealth building in little mekong by helping to transfer an asse…
Network 20 20Bronx, NYCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $7,000 · through 2024Largest: $7,000 to WANDER CAPTAIN — entrepreneurial diplomacy related grant to wildyness. program objectives collecting information about baseline revenue for microbusinesses and information for the number of travele…
Largest: $30,000 to Nebraska Enterprise Fund — enhancing technical assistance to microbusinesses
Largest: $25,000 to ICAN California Abilities Network — grant funds will be used to expand and enhance ican's marketplace initiative microbusiness, hermosa coffee co. by purchasing an additional coffee cart with an espresso machine that…
Alliance 2005Omak, WACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $9,809 · through 2024Largest: $9,809 to WASHINGTON STATE MICROENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION — provide training and technical assistance and information about financing to microbusinesses.
Largest: $10,000 to Womens Center for Entrepreneurship — 2023 dei microbusiness ecommerce expansion program
Largest: $8,000 to ECONOMIC EMPOWEREMENT FOR WOMEN — support war recovery programs for women who have microbusiness
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
1 matching grant · $100,000 · through 2022Largest: $100,000 to LIFTFUND — strengthen low-income, bipoc, and women-owned microbusinesses in dona ana county, new mexico by increasing access to capital, providing technical assistance, and building strong co…
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →