· Public charity
Battle Creek Unlimited Inc
Build a strong community by driving strategic investment and job creation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $260,728 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $318,520 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $57,792 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $37k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $224k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPROUT | $146,328 |
| CIVES CORPORATION | $77,363 |
| WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $37,037 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +221% since the first grant, against +65% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- S2STREAM 2 LLC2× · 2022–2023 · $450k
- SSSIMPLY SENSATIONAL BERRIES2× · 2023–2024 · $420k
SPROUT URBAN FARMS INC4× · 2020–2025 · $324k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- JAJAY ANDREW DEVELOPMENT COone grant, 2021 · $360k
- HDHEXX DESIGN COone grant, 2022 · $200k
- URUMAMI RAMEN LLCone grant, 2021 · $153k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The battle creek area association of realtors (bcaar) empowers realtors and partners by enhancing the proficiency of our members, enforcing ethical standards, and fostering cooperation within our industry, so we can serve our community by…
We promote giving, build endowment, and provide leadership to improve quality of life.
To educate the public about unfair business practices fraud, and to make informed decisions when choosing entities to do business with.
Build a strong community by driving strategic investment and job creation.
To support the battle creek area chamber of commerce by sponsoring programs and creating opportunities that enhance the economic landscape in the battle creek community and promote the concept of civic leadership.
Improve the economy of the local community
CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Citizens mediation service, inc.'s mission is to successfully resolve conflict through mediation services that facilitate lasting, positive solutions by empowering the residents of berrien, cass, saint joseph, van buren and kalamazoo…
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…
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.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds SPROUT URBAN FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds BURMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF CALHOUN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NEW LEVEL SPORTS ↗
- Who funds Battle Creek Hot Air Balloon Championships Inc ↗
- Who funds CIR INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOODS INC OF BATTLE CREEK ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE UNION ↗
- Who funds Southwestern Michigan Urban League ↗
- Who funds MUSIC CENTER OF SOUTH CENTRAL MI ↗
- Who funds VOCES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BATTLE CREEK AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds BATTLE CREEKCALHOUN COUNTY CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Battle Creek Community Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · WK Kellogg Foundation · Miller Foundation · W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation · Guido a Binda and Elizabeth H Binda Foundation · 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 organization 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.
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.