· Public charity
Berrien-Cass-Vanburen Workforce Development Board Inc
Provide sustainable and systemic solutions for the most pressing employer workforce challenges.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of BERRIEN-CASS-VANBUREN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 36 grants below total $1,177,303 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,325,217 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $147,914 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
- Under $10k10 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $481k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $315k
- $250k+1 grant · $315k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KALAMAZOO PROBATION ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM | $314,768 |
| NEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION | $78,751 |
| TWIN COUNTY COMMUNITY PROBATION CENTER | $76,980 |
| MIDWEST STRATEGY GRO | $56,874 |
| CDW DIRECT LLC | $51,216 |
| BRAMMALL INDUSTRIAL | $51,060 |
| Individual grant recipient | $44,799 |
| MILLER JOHNSON SNELL & CUMMISKEY PLC | $42,946 |
| HPT INVESTMENT LLC | $41,900 |
| MINDSPRING LLC | $38,255 |
| YEO & YEO PC | $33,440 |
| COUNTRY MANAGEMENT PROPERTIES LLC | $26,695 |
| DOUBLEDAY OFFICE PRO | $25,225 |
| SECURE COUNSELING AND PC | $24,040 |
| BENTON HOTEL | $22,919 |
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 (FY17–25, $285k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +31% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 21 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $404k 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
- WEW E UPJOHN UNEMPLOYMENT TRUSTEE CORPORATION2× · 2017–2018 · $463k · revenue +31%
- NHNEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPM2× · 2024–2025 · $88k · revenue +3%
- CACORNERSTONE ALLIANCE2× · 2019–2020 · $45k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- DEDETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORone grant, 2017 · $307k
- WMWEST MICHIGAN WORKSone grant, 2017 · $244k
- GMGST MICHIGAN WORKSone grant, 2017 · $234k
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.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
Job training and workforce development
To apply the principles of workforce development to grow michigan's economy while improving the lives of michigan workers.
Employment and training services
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
Together, growing a prosperous wabash county.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Provide training and habilitation services for developmentally disabled adults.
To develop services and training programs for area employers to expand employment opportunities. wrtp is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit workforce intermediary dedicated to connecting people to family-sustaining jobs. our mission is to enhance the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berrien-Cass-Vanburen Workforce Development Board Inc and the most unlike its peers is Southwestern Michigan College Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 67 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 KALAMAZOO PROBATION ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds W E UPJOHN UNEMPLOYMENT TRUSTEE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TWIN COUNTY COMM PROBATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPM ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Michigan Job Training Partnership Assoc ↗
- Who funds MARKET VANBUREN ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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 Berrien-Cass-Vanburen Workforce Development Board 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.