How much did BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC grant in FY2024?

BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC reported 5 grants totaling $69,256 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC based?

BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC is based in MI.

BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC

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· Public charity

BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC

Battle creek unlimited is a community development organization that will create an economic development climate that encourages business formation and investments in technology, coupled with a continuing supply of real estate with infrastructure to support technology workplaces.

$69k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$18k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 87% of BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

covid micrograntmicrogrant agreement

2021

wkkf

2022

minds

2023

incentivefood

2024

sub-recipientfood

2025

sub-recipientfood

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $27k
$10k–50k1 grant · $18k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$122M

Total assets

Largest grants

SPROUT$17,794
SIMPLY SENSATIONAL BERRIES LLC$7,500
BREAD AND BASKET LLC$7,500
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY$7,362
BURMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE INC$5,100

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.1M · 9 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +230% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.1M

$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+230%

+29%

Still filing today

22%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

S2
STREAM 2 LLC
2× · 2022–2023 · $450k
SS
SIMPLY SENSATIONAL BERRIES LLC
2× · 2023–2024 · $420k
NL
NEW LEVEL CHURCH
2× · 2022–2023 · $240k

Funded once

JA
JAY ANDREW DEVELOPMENT CO
one grant, 2021 · $360k
HD
HEXX DESIGN CO
one grant, 2022 · $200k
UR
UMAMI RAMEN LLC
one grant, 2021 · $153k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Battle Creek Area Assoc of Realtors

A professional organization providing service and support to the real estate and housing industry in calhoun county, michigan.

Community Improvement

Battle Creek Unlimited Inc

Community Improvement

Community Education Commission

Cec works with diverse stakeholders across detroit to develop critical resources and systems-level solutions that address common challenges faced by detroit families in accessing quality education.

Education

Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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Better Business Bureau Detroit and

To educate the public about unfair business practices fraud, and to make informed decisions when choosing entities to do business with.

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Battle Creek Area Habitat for

Battle creek area habitat for humanity's mission is to provide sustainable homeownership to committed, qualified families in calhoun county.

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Calhoun County Animal Center Inc

To retrieve, care for, shelter and adopt out cats and dogs in calhoun county michigan

Animals

Harbor Country Chamber of Commerce

To promote business and economic development in sw michigan.

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The Arc Shiawassee County Inc

Empower people with developmental disabilities in mid-michigan to participate in and be fully included in the community.

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Craig Chamber of Commerce

Improve the economy of the local community

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Southwest Michigan Regional

Member driven organization working to achieve economy prosperity throughout the region. it's mission is to leverage every available resource within out network for the advancement of our members and the betterment of all who live in our…

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Berrien County Council for Children

The mission of the children's advocacy center of southwest michigan is to support children through a coordinated response to child abuse and neglect that includes prevention, assessment and intervention.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Burmese American Initiative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Southwestern Michigan Urban League. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/14

Grantees still filing

11/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,911,915Arts & Culture$220,100Food & Nutrition$177,794Human Services$22,500Youth Development$10,000Housing & Shelter$7,500Education$7,500Recreation & Sports$7,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Battle Creek Community FoundationMI30.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Battle Creek Community Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · WK Kellogg Foundation · Miller Foundation · W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corp · Feldpausch Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SPROUT URBAN FARMS INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~16 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 453707870 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SPROUT URBAN FARMS INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 16 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Battle Creek Unlimited Inc?

Find your warmest path to Battle Creek Unlimited Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Battle Creek Unlimited Inc?

More from the funding graph

BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Battle Creek Unlimited Inc?

More from the funding graph