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Small Business Term Loan Programs

01 Small Business Term Loan Programs · 23 edit slice
6
orgs
23
activities
1
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 6 organizations and 23 activities — ACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY, Hopi Credit Association, LOCAL FIRST FOR BUSINESS, GROWTH PARTNERS ARIZONA and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (83%) and California (17%). The field's most common shared approach is "Repayment Tied to Savings", run by 1 orgs.
ACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY and Hopi Credit Association hold roughly a third of all activity — know those first.
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who to look at first

shortlist

Ranked by activity breadth, method diversity, and network reach across the slice. Attach a memo to this report and this list re-ranks around your intent.

where this slice is thin

gap signals

Concrete structural gaps — method mix, geographic concentration, coalition density, funder diversity. Evidence is cited from the slice's own numbers.

where the field lives · works

geography

Orange headquarters dots are sized by how many grantees are based in the state. Green circles mark real locations these orgs say they serve — from city-level populations in this slice's impact_map_populations data. Toggle layers at the bottom right.

regional breakdown · hq density
Arizona 83% · 5 orgs
California 17% · 1 orgs
gap signal →
Arizona accounts for 83% of field activity — the other 49 states combined hold less than half.
who's here

organizations in this field · 6

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direct service advocacy research capacity building
where the money comes from

funders already active in this field

Funders named as a funding source on these orgs' own materials. The count is the number of orgs in this slice that cite them — higher means a funder with demonstrable commitment to the field.

Arizona Community Foundation of Flagstaff 1
Foundation
CDFI Fund 1
Government
Coconino County 1
Government
Community Development Financial Institutions Fund 1
Government
Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco 1
Corporate
Flagstaff Community Foundation 1
Foundation
Hopi Tribe 1
Government
Mastercard 1
Corporate
NDN Collective 1
Government
Navajo Nation Permanent Trust Fund 1
Government
Oweesta 1
Government
Ripple 1
Corporate
State of Arizona 1
Government
USDA 1
Government
how the field thinks

strategies in this slice

Theories of action extracted from the orgs in this slice. The count is how many orgs cite each one — a strategy run by many orgs in common is a through-line; one cited by a single org is still surfaced so the reader can gauge the full spread.

where strategy meets practice

strategies × activity types

How each shared strategy breaks down across the four activity types the orgs running it actually do.

direct service
advocacy
research
capacity building
Repayment Tied to Savings
3
who works with whom

named partnerships · coalitions · networks

Entities these orgs explicitly call out as partners, coalition members, or networks. Unlike the strategy-sharing graph below (which is inferred from shared approaches), these are relationships the orgs claim on their own sites.

Community Investment Corporation Partner
shared by 2 orgs
ASU E+I Institute Partner
shared by 1 org
American Indian Higher Education Consortium Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Community Foundation of Flagstaff Funder
shared by 1 org
Business Development Finance Corporation (BDFC) Partner
shared by 1 org
Catalina Council Scouting America Partner
shared by 1 org
Charity Navigator Partner
shared by 1 org
City of Avondale Partner
shared by 1 org
City of Phoenix Partner
shared by 1 org
City of Safford Funder
shared by 1 org
City of Tucson Partner
shared by 1 org
Coalition of Arizona’s Credit Unions Partner
shared by 1 org
Cochise County Partner
shared by 1 org
Coconino County Funder
shared by 1 org
Coconino Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Partner
shared by 1 org
Community Development Financial Institutions Fund Government
shared by 1 org
where the field connects

strategy-sharing network

Inferred from shared theories of action: each line connects an org to a strategy it runs. Organizations that share many strategies cluster through the same nodes — funders can spot the field's structural bridges.

scale of the field

rollup metrics

Aggregated scale claims from orgs in the slice. Treat as a floor, not a ceiling — many orgs don't publish these numbers, so totals underrepresent real reach. Extreme outliers (often unit-mismatches upstream) are filtered out.

4.5M
People served
from 2 orgs
202
Partner organizations
from 2 orgs