Michigan · Nonprofit
BATTLE CREEK AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION
BATTLE CREEK AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,000 to it, the largest being BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($16,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $25k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $-640
What Battle Creek Area Chamber Foundation does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Silent observer - a nationally recognized model for community crime fighting that offers citizens the opportunity to provide police with vital information - yet remain anonymous.
$11,548 spent44% of program spendingMilitary - military appreciation luncheon and military ball events to honor military.
$10,376 spent39% of program spendingArts - spring and fall in-to the arts events showcase where local artists bring art into downtown businesses.
$1,252 spent5% of program spendingCreek
$3,120 spent12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $26,296.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $57k to $18k (−68%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
24% of BATTLE CREEK AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Elishae S Johnson
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $0.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BATTLE CREEK AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BATTLE CREEK AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BATTLE CREEK AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
69% of BATTLE CREEK AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BATTLE CREEK AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 9,376 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,376 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like BATTLE CREEK AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BATTLE CREEK AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION?
- BATTLE CREEK AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,000 to it, the largest being BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($16,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BATTLE CREEK AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $24,000 in grants to BATTLE CREEK AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BATTLE CREEK AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION?
- BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BATTLE CREEK AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing