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Michigan · Public charity

Berrien-Cass-Vanburen Workforce Development Board Inc

Provide sustainable and systemic solutions for the most pressing employer workforce challenges.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 36
Itemized grants FY2025: 19
Organizations funded FY2024: 100%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.2M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $21,380
Largest grant, FY2025: $314,768
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 19; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 5
Total assets, FY2025: $6.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Berrien-Cass-Vanburen Workforce Development Board Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $895k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEmploymentEducationOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	36	$1.2M	58%
FY2024	19	$895k	100%
FY2023	4	$164k	25%
FY2022	4	$173k	25%
FY2021	1	$118k	0%
FY2020	7	$431k	43%
FY2019	8	$416k	38%
FY2018	8	$789k	88%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Employment$5.2MHousing & Shelter$299kReligion$140kHuman Services$74kCommunity Improvement$56kYouth Development$55kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Lake Michigan College	$776,957	6	n/a
Kalamazoo Probation Enhancement Program	$772,693	2	4%
W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation	$462,601	2	1%
Michigan Dep of Health & Human Services	$427,975	3	n/a
Gst Michigan Works	$234,445	1	n/a
Twin County Comm Probation Center	$168,500	2	3%
Creative Financial Staffing LLC	$163,295	4	n/a
First Church of God of St Joseph Michigan	$140,000	2	n/a
Southeast Michigan Community Alliance	$136,579	1	1%
Brammall Industrial	$100,450	2	n/a

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All grantees of Berrien-Cass-Vanburen Workforce Development Board Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Lake Michigan College	$776,957	6	n/a
Kalamazoo Probation Enhancement Program	$772,693	2	4%
W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation	$462,601	2	1%
Michigan Dep of Health & Human Services	$427,975	3	n/a
Gst Michigan Works	$234,445	1	n/a
Twin County Comm Probation Center	$168,500	2	3%
Creative Financial Staffing LLC	$163,295	4	n/a
First Church of God of St Joseph Michigan	$140,000	2	n/a
Southeast Michigan Community Alliance	$136,579	1	1%
Brammall Industrial	$100,450	2	n/a
New Heights Christian Community Developm	$88,211	2	8%
Hpt Investment LLC	$74,948	2	n/a
Heartland Human Care Services Inc	$60,000	1	0%
Secure Counseling and PC	$56,975	2	n/a
Midwest Strategy Gro	$56,874	1	n/a
Benton Hotel	$56,164	2	n/a
Country Management Properties LLC	$54,535	2	n/a
Elwood Staffing Services Inc	$53,007	3	n/a
Cdw Direct LLC	$51,216	1	n/a
Cornerstone Alliance	$45,150	2	1%
Pearl Affordable Home LLC	$43,696	2	n/a
Miller Johnson Snell & Cummiskey Plc	$42,946	1	n/a
Michigan Job Training Partnership Assoc	$39,334	2	1%
Mindspring LLC	$38,255	1	n/a
Family Circle Properties LLC	$35,450	2	n/a
Cadet Motor Inn	$35,130	2	n/a
Franklin Ame Church	$33,529	2	n/a
Yeo & Yeo PC	$33,440	1	n/a
Antero Group	$29,720	1	n/a
Market Vanburen	$28,300	1	7%
Public Sector Consultants Inc	$25,960	2	n/a
Doubleday Office Pro	$25,225	1	n/a
Berrien-Cass-Vanburen Workforce Development Board Inc	$23,176	1	0%
Mathew Pattison	$22,575	1	n/a
Southwestern Michigan College Foundation	$22,199	1	2%
Domestic Violence Coalition Inc	$19,700	2	n/a
Specialized Computer	$15,870	1	n/a
Franklin Gibson	$15,000	1	n/a
Dowagiac Auto Service	$15,000	1	n/a
Dial-A-Ride	$14,009	2	n/a
Innovative Impressions	$13,624	1	n/a
Auto Force USA	$10,000	1	n/a
Scarlett Auto Body	$10,000	1	n/a
M 51 Auto Sales	$10,000	1	n/a
Greenhouse Software	$9,750	1	n/a
Field Plumbing & Heating	$9,165	1	n/a
S&H Leasing LLC	$8,832	1	n/a
Metro	$8,400	1	n/a
Essential Education	$8,104	1	n/a
Janet Lee Bloomfield	$7,950	1	n/a
Hamilton Plumbing	$6,250	1	n/a
Chartwells Dining Services	$6,073	1	n/a
Verizon Wireless	$5,982	1	n/a
Twins Hospitality LLC	$5,679	1	n/a
Baric Properties LLC	$5,340	1	n/a
Goodwill Industries of Sw Michigan	$5,073	1	n/a

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Berrien-Cass-Vanburen Workforce Development Board Inc supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

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About Berrien-Cass-Vanburen Workforce Development Board Inc

How much does Berrien-Cass-Vanburen Workforce Development Board Inc give?: Berrien-Cass-Vanburen Workforce Development Board Inc reported 36 itemized grants totaling $1,177,303, out of $1,325,217 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Berrien-Cass-Vanburen Workforce Development Board Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (89%), Housing & Shelter (5%), Religion (2%).
Who are Berrien-Cass-Vanburen Workforce Development Board Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lake Michigan College ($777k), Kalamazoo Probation Enhancement Program ($773k), W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation ($463k).
Does Berrien-Cass-Vanburen Workforce Development Board Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Berrien-Cass-Vanburen Workforce Development Board Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Berrien-Cass-Vanburen Workforce Development Board Inc based?: Berrien-Cass-Vanburen Workforce Development Board Inc is based in MI.