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FY 2024

Verified NonprofitLast Filed 2024EIN 58-1562750

Self-Help Ventures Fund

Durham, NCNTEE: S310Founded 1984Website

mission statement

Self-Help Ventures Funds mission is to create and protect ownership and economic opportunity for all, especially people of color, women, rural residents and low-wealth families and communities.

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Total Revenue

$189.2M

FY 2024

Program Spending

75%

of total expenses

Known Funders

2019–2024 filings

Key Metrics (FY 2024)

The Numbers

$3.4B

Total Assets

$755.6M net

132.2 mo

Operating Reserves

FY 2024

+179%

Revenue Growth

YoY

Sector

NTEE S310

Funding Track Record

Backed by 12 Institutional Funders

$62.8M raised across 18 grants (2019–2024 filings)

Funder Geography

Funders across 7 states (2019–2024 filings)

Institutional Funding by Year

PaidCommittedBoth

Funder	Location	Total Awarded
National Philanthropic Trust	JENKINTOWN, PA	$45,000,000
Dogwood Health Trust	Asheville, NC	$8,450,000
Center for Community Self-Help	Durham, NC	$8,163,818
Opportunity Finance Network	PHILADELPHIA, PA	$500,000
Climate United Fund	BETHESDA, MD	$150,000
The Kresge Foundation	TROY, MI	$150,000
Silicon Valley Community Foundation	Mountain View, CA	$140,000
Rudolf Steiner Foundation Inc	SAN FRANCISCO, CA	$70,000
Td Charitable Foundation	FALMOUTH, ME	$60,000
Service Employees International Union	WASHINGTON, DC	$40,000

Total tracked: $62,759,068 across 18 grants (2019–2024 filings)

Totals reflect grants as reported on funder tax returns. Timing may not match recipient revenue: funder and recipient fiscal years often differ, and grants paid by a funder in one year may be recognized by the recipient in a different year.

Programs (FY 2024)

What They Do

$33.8M in expenses

Economic development through the renovation of historic buildings, construction of new buildings in distressed communities. Providing quality, affordable retail, community facilities and commercial rental space to revitalize and stabilize distressed communities.Economic development through provision of rental property in distressed and blighted areas, Total beneficiaries = approximately 6,767

$13.7M in expenses

Loans to and investments in community development projects (a) employing low-income and unemployed persons; (b) in low-income, rural and distressed communities; and (c) involving charitable organizations. Total beneficiaries = approximately 1,652

$4.0M in expenses

Facilitation of a secondary market at reasonable rates on a substainable basis for home mortgages made to low-income and other traditionally underserved home buyers to make homeownership more widely available to these families. Total beneficiaries = approximately 17,685

Financial History