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Top 11 Microenterprise development organizations based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 38 microenterprise development organizations headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,224 professional contacts across them, including 115 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (74 companies); Chicago has 38.
This list covers microenterprise development organizations headquartered in Chicago, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 28, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 11 largest microenterprise development organizations based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 942 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Opportunity International is a global non-profit (with affiliates in the UK, Canada, Germany and Australia) celebrating over 50 years of equipping people with tools and business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sunshine Enterprises recognizes entrepreneurship as a critical asset to alleviate the financial burden and create a pathway to long-term wealth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The WBDC is an economic development center focused on delivering programs and services that assist small business owners gain access to contracts, contacts, information and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Allies for Community Business (A4CB) provides the capital, coaching, and connections entrepreneurs need to grow great businesses that create jobs and wealth in their communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1996, Entrepreneurs Academy has been providing entrepreneurial training in low-income, under-developed and under-represented communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “An education company that strengthens communities by transforming small businesses into high-value, commerce-driven assets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “DishRoulette Kitchen (DRK) is a small business development center, dedicated to addressing economic inequality by empowering food and beverage entrepreneurs in historically…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mission: Africa Twenty One Hundred seeks to improve lives in underserved communities by educating and connecting aspiring entrepreneurs with essential resources.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “New Covenant Community Development Corporation's mission is to establish sustainable economic growth and opportunities through developing, empowering, and supporting entrepreneurs…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SOW COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is a Community Development Entity founded in Chicago, IL in October 2014.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At GNCDC - we are community of business professionals – bringing City, Federal & local assist programs, incentive information, education, training resources and funding assistance…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: microenterprise development organizations. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names microenterprise development organizations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of microenterprise development organizations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name microenterprise development organizations. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Microenterprise development organizations based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 28, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 38 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among microenterprise development organizations, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “microenterprise development organizations”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names microenterprise development organizations), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among microenterprise development organizations, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 115 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 28, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Microenterprise development organizations by metro in the United States
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names microenterprise development organizations, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many microenterprise development organizations are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 38 microenterprise development organizations headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Opportunity International, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most microenterprise development organizations?
New York leads the United States with 74 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (43) and Washington (40). Chicago has 38.
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 115 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 38 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 28, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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