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Business Banking & Lending Services

01 Business Banking & Lending Services · 21 edit slice
9
orgs
21
activities
3
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 9 organizations and 21 activities — PROVIDENT CREDIT UNION, SAN FRANCISCO FIRE CREDIT UNION, VANTAGE WEST CREDIT UNION, CREDIT UNION WEST and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (56%) and California (44%). The field's most common shared approach is "Community-Led Design", run by 1 orgs.
PROVIDENT CREDIT UNION and SAN FRANCISCO FIRE CREDIT UNION hold roughly a third of all activity — know those first.
pull-quote · for funders
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 56% · 5 orgs
California 44% · 4 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 9

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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.

CU West CARES Charitable Foundation 1
Foundation
Credit Union West employee donations 1
Individuals
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
Community-Led Design
1
Enhanced Financial Protection
2
Financial Simplification
1
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.

National Credit Union Administration Government
shared by 3 orgs
AZ Central Partner
shared by 1 org
Allstate Partner
shared by 1 org
Apple Partner
shared by 1 org
Apple Pay Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Department of Financial Institutions Government
shared by 1 org
Arizona Pet Project Partner
shared by 1 org
Association of Fundraising Professionals Southern Arizona Chapter Government
shared by 1 org
Auto House Dealership Partner
shared by 1 org
AutoSMART Partner
shared by 1 org
AutoSmart Car Buying Service Partner
shared by 1 org
Autoland Car Buying Service Partner
shared by 1 org
BaconPay Partner
shared by 1 org
Boys & Girls Club of Flagstaff Partner
shared by 1 org
CO-OP Network
shared by 1 org
CO-OP ATM Network Partner
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.