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Bbch Community Partners
BBCH COMMUNITY PARTNERS program activities include the responsible investment of funds, and the use of those funds in grantmaking activities that promote the delivery of health care at bronson battle creek hospital, or the wellbeing and health of the battle creek community, including all geographic areas served by bronson battle creek…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $408k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRONSON BATTLE CREEK HOSPITAL | $1,000,000 |
| SUMMIT POINTE | $150,000 |
| BATTLE CREEK YMCA | $112,500 |
| BATTLE CREEK HOMELESS SHELTER | $75,000 |
| SPROUT UBRAN FARMS | $70,000 |
| BRONSON HEALTH FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Bbch Community Partners’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- BBBronson Battle Creek Hospital4× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +52%
GRACE HEALTH INC3× · 2018–2023 · $260k · revenue +111%
ENCOURAGE BC3× · 2020–2022 · $185k · revenue +195%
Funded once
BURMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue -16%
NORTHPOINTE WOODSone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +11%- CSCOMPREHENSIVE SENIOR CARE CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue +19%
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.
Creating communities celebrating the lives of seniors. lifespace recognizes that its mission can only be fulfilled through the dedicated efforts of its employees, therefore, included in our mission is the ability to provide disaster relief…
Provide exceptional, integrated, patient-centered health care services designed to meet the needs of all patients, particularly those who experience barriers to accessing care, regardless of their ability to pay.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve
The purpose of the brooke county committee on aging is to promote services that will enhance the health, safety, and welfare of the senior population in its planning and service area, and serve as the primary agency within the local…
Together, we advance the health of our communities.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Together we advance the health of our communities.
The adrc of brown county supports older adults, adults with disabilities, and caregivers through education, advocacy, and resources. we connect people to answers, in our center, by phone, or at home, so everyone can live with diginity and…
Mclaren healthcare, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.
To provide compassionate in-home skilled nursing care and supportive resources for those affected by cancer and related illnesses in southwest michigan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Battle Creek Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 22 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 Bronson Battle Creek Hospital ↗
- Who funds BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Y-CENTER OF BATTLE CREEK ↗
- Who funds Bronson Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds GRACE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds ENCOURAGE BC ↗
- Who funds BURMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SPROUT URBAN FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds OLIVET COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NORTHPOINTE WOODS ↗
- Who funds BATTLE CREEK HOMELESS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE SENIOR CARE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds LIFECARE AMBULANCE ↗
- Who funds LEGACY SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds ALBION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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 · WK Kellogg Foundation · Miller Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Feldpausch Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · 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 Bbch Community Partners 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.