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· Public charity

Battle Creek Unlimited Inc

Build a strong community by driving strategic investment and job creation.

$319k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$146k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Community Improvement$1.5MFood & Nutrition$693kArts & Culture$351kReligion$240kHealth$214kYouth Development$210kHuman Services$188kEnvironment$120kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $260,728, the rows itemized in this filing. The $318,520 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $57,792 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $37k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $224k
$77,363
Median grant
2
States reached
$99M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPROUT$146,328
CIVES CORPORATION$77,363
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY$37,037
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%VOCES: $8k → 8%CHARITABLE UNION: $8k → 14%SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN URBAN LEAGUE: $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 9 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +221% since the first grant, against +65% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
24

Total granted

$2.3M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+221%
+65%

Still filing today

22%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    2× · 2023–2024 · $420k
  • SPROUT URBAN FARMS INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $324k · revenue +101%

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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Battle Creek Area Assoc of Realtors

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…

Community Improvement
2
Battle Creek Community Foundation

We promote giving, build endowment, and provide leadership to improve quality of life.

Philanthropy
3
Better Business Bureau Detroit and Eastern Michigan Educational Foundation

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

—
4
Battle Creek Unlimited Inc

Build a strong community by driving strategic investment and job creation.

Community Improvement
5
Battle Creek Area Chamber Foundation

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.

Community Improvement
6
Craig Chamber of Commerce

Improve the economy of the local community

—
7
Community Education Commission

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.

Education
8
Harbor Country Chamber of Commerce

To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.

—
9
Macomb County Chamber of Commerce

The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.

Unclassified
10
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

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

—
11
Citizens Mediation Service Inc

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…

Education
12
Southwest Michigan Regional Chamber of Commerce

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…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Burmese American Initiative Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STREAM 2 LLC: $450,000 · OtherSTREAM 2 LLCSIMPLY SENSATIONAL BERRIES: $419,574 · OtherSIMPLY SENSATIONAL BERRIESJAY ANDREW DEVELOPMENT CO: $360,000 · OtherJAY ANDREW DEVELOPMENT CONEW LEVEL CHURCH: $240,000 · OtherNEW LEVEL CHURCHTORTI TACO LLC: $215,000 · OtherTORTI TACO LLCHEXX DESIGN CO: $200,000 · OtherHEXX DESIGN COBRILLIANT MINDS FAMILY COUNSELING: $198,900 · OtherBRILLIANT MINDS FAMILY COUNSELINGTHE ELIZABETH BUILDING PARTNERS: $171,200 · OtherTHE ELIZABETH BUILDING PARTNERSUMAMI RAMEN LLC: $153,000 · OtherSMITH-COTTON FUNERAL HOME LLC: $147,926 · Other+14 more: $470,715 · Other+14 moreSPROUT URBAN FARMS INC: $324,122 · Food & NutritionSPROUT URB…BURMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE INC: $212,600 · Arts & CultureMUSIC CENTER OF SOUTH CENTRAL MI: $7,500 · Arts & CultureCHARITABLE UNION: $7,500 · Human ServicesSouthwestern Michigan Urban League: $7,500 · Human ServicesVOCES: $7,500 · Human ServicesNEW LEVEL SPORTS: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCIR INC: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsNEIGHBORHOODS INC OF BATTLE CREEK: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MICHIGAN: $7,500 · Education
Other$3,026,315Food & Nutrition$324,122Arts & Culture$220,100Human Services$22,500Youth Development$10,000Recreation & Sports$7,500Housing & Shelter$7,500Education$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPROUT URBAN FARMS INC: $324,122 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetBURMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE INC: $212,600 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetTHE ARC OF CALHOUN COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNEW LEVEL SPORTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBattle Creek Hot Air Balloon Championships Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCIR INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNEIGHBORHOODS INC OF BATTLE CREEK: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHARITABLE UNION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSouthwestern Michigan Urban League: $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMUSIC CENTER OF SOUTH CENTRAL MI: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVOCES: $7,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MICHIGAN: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBATTLE CREEK AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $7,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBATTLE CREEKCALHOUN COUNTY CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU: $7,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Battle Creek Communit…United Way of South C…WK Kellogg FoundationMiller FoundationW E Upjohn Unemployme…Guido a Binda and Eli…Feldpausch FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
Battle Creek Community FoundationMI30.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover 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 Corporation · Guido a Binda and Elizabeth H Binda Foundation · Feldpausch Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Battle Creek Unlimited Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Battle Creek Unlimited Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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