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Women's Business Ownership Assistance

Program Information

Popular name

Women’s Business Center (WBO)

Program Number

59.043

Sub-agency

N/A

Program objective

To fund private, nonprofit organizations to assist, through training and counseling, small business concerns owned and controlled by women, and to remove, in so far as possible, the discriminatory barriers that are encountered by women in accessing capital and promoting their businesses.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2016

    No data available 17335000

  2. 2017

    18000000

  3. 2018

    $18,500,000

  4. 2019

    For Fiscal Year (FY) 2019: It is projected that approximately $17million will be available for the Women’s Business Center Program.

  5. 2022

    In FY 2022, the SBA advised and trained over 84,000 entrepreneurs and helped create more than 2,800 new small businesses through the Women’s Business Centers.

    For more information about SBA accomplishments, access the SBA Congressional Budget Justification and Annual Performance Report: https://www.sba.gov/document/report-congressional-budget-justification-annual-performance-report

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

https://www.sba.gov/document/support-sba-awards-terms-conditions

  1. Small Business Act, Section 29 (15 U.S.C. 656).