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Berrien Community Foundation Inc

To connect the power of the people who care with causes and organizations that strengthen our communities.

$10M
Granted FY2025still arriving
201
Grants FY2025still arriving
23
States reached
$872k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$15MArts & Culture$8.0MReligion$5.6MHealth$5.4MHuman Services$5.3MRecreation & Sports$4.8MPhilanthropy$4.6MYouth Development$2.8MOther$0
02FY2025 · 201 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 201 grants below total $9,241,775, the rows itemized in this filing. The $10,120,973 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $879,198 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

  • Under $10k51 grants · $365k
  • $10k–50k112 grants · $2.5M
  • $50k–250k31 grants · $3.0M
  • $250k+7 grants · $3.4M
$18,110
Median grant
23
States reached
$126M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JOSEPH COMMUNITY PARK FOUNDATION$871,813
CURIOUS KIDS' MUSEUM$578,337
THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION$575,000
NEW BUFFALO AREA SCHOOLS$364,500
PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE TO PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDAT$350,000
CORNERSTONE PUBLIC ASSET FUND INC$342,359
BERRIEN COUNTY PARKS DEPARTMENT$337,036
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN$237,325
SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$207,353
CITY OF ST JOSEPH$165,012
FRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS$155,000
COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN$135,063
NILESYMCAGSRP$127,561
CAMP VICTORY MINISTRIES$120,000
PRESENT PILLARS FOUNDATION$115,000
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 (FY17–25, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOHANJI FOUNDATION: $26k → 6%TUSCON CENTERS FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $25k → 15%SAN MIGUEL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $33k → 21%LVDI INTERNATIONAL INC: $150k → 11%DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $45k → 12%DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $40k → 12%DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $30k → 12%DISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $22k → 12%NEIGHBOR BY NEIGHBOR: $51k → 15%RIVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER INC: $28k → 15%RIVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER: $20k → 15%NEIGHBOR BY NEIGHBOR: $35k → 15%NEIGHBOR BY NEIGHBOR: $35k → 15%NEIGHBOR BY NEIGHBOR: $25k → 15%WELL OF GRACE MINISTRIES: $58k → 15%LEST WE FORGET INC: $32k → 15%WELL OF GRACE MINISTRIES: $29k → 15%WELL OF GRACE MINISTRIES: $24k → 15%LEST WE FORGET INC: $22k → 15%LEST WE FORGET INC: $22k → 15%BENTON HARBOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $142k → 15%MOSAIC CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $113k → 15%THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK INC: $72k → 15%BENTON HARBOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $54k → 15%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INC: $53k → 15%MOSAIC CCDA: $50k → 15%THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK INC: $47k → 15%BENTON HARBOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $46k → 15%SUMMIT FINANCIAL WELLNESS: $40k → 15%THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK INC: $38k → 15%OVERFLOW COMMUNITY CHURCH: $35k → 15%PRESENT PILLARS FOUNDATION: $32k → 15%PRESENT PILLARS FOUNDATION: $31k → 15%NEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $256k → 15%REGION IV AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $151k → 15%NEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $122k → 15%NEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $115k → 15%NEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $82k → 15%REGION IV AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $80k → 15%REGION IV AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $78k → 15%REGION IV AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $64k → 15%NEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $63k → 15%NEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $61k → 15%NEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $50k → 15%NEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $32k → 15%100 WOMAN STRONG: $23k → 15%100 WOMEN STRONG INC: $22k → 15%THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $26k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Berrien Community Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 71%.

Berrien Community Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$59M · 291 repeat orgs$5.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

291 repeat relationships: 147 still active in FY2025, 144 since wound down; 48 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

291
184

Total granted

$59M
$3.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+12%

Still filing today

60%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthReligionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +121% · 59% of their budget
  • LE
    LAKESHORE EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +41% · 74% of their budget
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • FC
    FIDELITY CHARITABLE - ALEXANDER FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • TU
    The University of Findlay
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +4%
  • LI
    LVDI INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -60% · 50% of their budget
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.

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The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
2
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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3
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

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

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4
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
5
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
6
Michigan Science Center

The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.

Education
7
Mymichigan Medical Group

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
8
Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health
9
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
10
Michigan Farm Bureau

Michigan farm bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.

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11
Michigan Biotechnology Institute

Bridging the gap between early-stage innovation and commercial application. partnering to de-risk, develop and scale-up discoveries into commercially-viable technology packages.

Education
12
Mclaren Northern Michigan

Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in health care as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southwest Michigan; the most unlike its peers is Starkey Hearing Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

320 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. 320 of the 535 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
78
Early backer (in before they grew)
303/320
Grantees still filing
211/320
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $3,389,460 · OtherST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONFIRST CHURCH OF GOD OF ST JOSEPH MICHIGAN: $1,590,104 · OtherCHIKAMING TOWNSHIP: $1,083,008 · OtherMICHIANA HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1,300,000 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN: $1,070,341 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $1,185,225 · Other+107 more: $22,188,442 · Other+107 moreSOUTHWEST MICHIGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $1,497,589 · Arts & CultureSOUTHWEST MI…THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER: $1,064,010 · Arts & CultureTHE HERITAGE…CURIOUS KIDS MUSEUM: $914,838 · Arts & CultureCURIOUS KIDS…KRASL ART CENTER INC: $909,964 · Arts & CultureKRASL ART CE…CITADEL DANCE AND MUSIC CENTER INC: $361,942 · Arts & CultureCITADEL DANC…TWIN CITY PLAYERS: $269,125 · Arts & CultureWATER STREET GLASSWORKS: $225,336 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $1,421,489 · Arts & Culture+12 moreUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $2,204,788 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY O…LAKESHORE EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION: $2,087,528 · PhilanthropyLAKESHORE EX…The Chicago Community Trust: $743,804 · PhilanthropyThe Chicago …UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $700,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY W…Benton Harbor Education Foundation: $311,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $386,090 · Philanthropy+4 moreMOSAIC CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $1,402,691 · Human ServicesMOSAIC CH…NEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPM: $781,438 · Human ServicesNEW HEIGH…THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK INC: $710,668 · Human ServicesTHE AVENU…REGION IV AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC (WITH FOSTER GRANDPARENTS PROGRAM): $397,172 · Human ServicesREGION IV…READINESS CENTER INC: $282,989 · Human ServicesREADINESS…BENTON HARBOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $271,243 · Human ServicesDISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $183,500 · Human ServicesPresent Pillars Foundation: $178,000 · Human Services+10 more: $1,020,937 · Human Services+10 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $1,863,000 · EducationTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $400,000 · EducationIndiana University Foundation: $312,500 · EducationFERRY STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC: $262,024 · EducationTWIN-CITY AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOL FUND: $209,399 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $168,000 · EducationThe University of Findlay: $150,000 · EducationBENTON HARBOR PROMISE FOUNDATION: $148,700 · Education+7 more: $581,014 · EducationLAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH: $1,449,160 · HealthHospice at Home Inc: $668,926 · HealthBERRIEN COUNTY CANCER SERVICES INC: $209,454 · Health+14 more: $984,856 · HealthSt Joseph Community Park Foundation Inc: $1,397,118 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University: $367,764 · Recreation & SportsST JOSEPH YOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS: $223,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE FIRST TEE OF BENTON HARBOR INC: $156,720 · Recreation & SportsJOHN COOK FAMILY FOUNDATION: $135,000 · Recreation & SportsJACKSON HOLE SKI & SNOWBOARD CLUB: $110,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $168,705 · Recreation & Sports
Other$31,806,580Arts & Culture$6,664,293Philanthropy$6,433,210Human Services$5,228,638Education$4,094,637Health$3,312,396Recreation & Sports$2,808,807

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $3,389,460 over 9y, 59% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $2,204,788 over 9y, 6.8% of budgetLAKESHORE EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION: $2,087,528 over 9y, 74% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $1,863,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSOUTHWEST MICHIGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $1,497,589 over 9y, 70% of budgetLAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH: $1,449,160 over 9y, 25% of budgetMOSAIC CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $1,402,691 over 9y, 34% of budgetSt Joseph Community Park Foundation Inc: $1,397,118 over 5y, 96% of budgetMICHIANA HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1,300,000 over 4y, 48% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $1,185,225 over 9y, 15% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN: $1,070,341 over 9y, 54% of budgetTHE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER: $1,064,010 over 9y, 85% of budgetCURIOUS KIDS MUSEUM: $914,838 over 9y, 34% of budgetKRASL ART CENTER INC: $909,964 over 9y, 24% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MICHIANA INC: $857,642 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetLAKE MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $806,875 over 9y, 20% of budgetNEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPM: $781,438 over 8y, 35% of budgetThe Chicago Community Trust: $743,804 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK INC: $710,668 over 9y, 6.9% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $700,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHospice at Home Inc: $668,926 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetHARBOR SHORES PUBLIC ASSET FUND INC: $504,595 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetBLANCHARD VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS: $441,375 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREGION IV AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC (WITH FOSTER GRANDPARENTS PROGRAM): $397,172 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCORNERSTONE ALLIANCE: $379,485 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetNorthwestern University: $367,764 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCITADEL DANCE AND MUSIC CENTER INC: $361,942 over 8y, 20% of budgetSOUTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $315,816 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $312,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR NUTRITION SERVICES REG IV INC: $299,546 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetST JOSEPH-LINCOLN SENIOR SERVICE CENTER INC: $298,689 over 7y, 11% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $296,375 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetELE'S PLACE INC: $288,004 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetSARETT NATURE CENTER: $284,426 over 9y, 8.6% of budgetREADINESS CENTER INC: $282,989 over 9y, 21% of budgetBERRIEN COUNTY COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN: $273,327 over 9y, 10% of budgetBENTON HARBOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $271,243 over 5y, 72% of budgetTWIN CITY PLAYERS: $269,125 over 9y, 42% of budgetCHIKAMING OPEN LANDS: $267,516 over 2y, 11% of budgetLogan Community Resources Inc: $266,700 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetFERRY STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC: $262,024 over 9y, 71% of budgetFERNWOOD INC: $258,247 over 9y, 4.9% of budgetST JOSEPH YOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 2y, 88% of budgetOUTCENTER: $249,714 over 8y, 20% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN: $244,150 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP VICTORY MINISTRIES INC: $230,000 over 5y, 4.3% 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 ST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds LAKESHORE EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH ↗
  • Who funds MOSAIC CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds St Joseph Community Park Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MICHIANA HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CURIOUS KIDS MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds KRASL ART CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MICHIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKE MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPM ↗
  • Who funds The Chicago Community Trust ↗
  • Who funds THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
  • Who funds Hospice at Home Inc ↗
  • Who funds HARBOR SHORES PUBLIC ASSET FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BLANCHARD VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds REGION IV AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC (WITH FOSTER GRANDPARENTS PROGRAM) ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds CITADEL DANCE AND MUSIC CENTER INC ↗

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.

Whirlpool FoundationThe Pokagon Fund IncUnited Way of Southwe…St Josephbenton Harbo…The Marzke Family Fou…Feeding America West …Michigan Gateway Comm…Lakeland Health Found…Hanson Family Foundat…Fettig Family Foundat…The Schalon Foundation1st Source Bank Found…
Whirlpool FoundationMI67.7× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Whirlpool Foundation · The Pokagon Fund Inc · United Way of Southwest Michigan · St Josephbenton Harbor Rotary Foundation Inc · The Marzke Family Foundation · Feeding America West Michigan · Michigan Gateway Community Foundation · Lakeland Health Foundation Benton Harbor/Stjoseph · Hanson Family Foundation · Fettig Family Foundation · The Schalon Foundation · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx

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 Berrien Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Berrien Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Berrien Community Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 535 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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