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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.

$25k
Revenue FY2024
2
Funders on record
$24k
Grants received
$-640
Net assets
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%

Against its field

BATTLE CREEK AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 9,351 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−17% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,351 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($30k) Expenses 100 ($44k) Net assets 100 ($8k)2018 Revenue 165 ($50k) Expenses 132 ($59k) Net assets -15 ($-1144)2019 Revenue 108 ($33k) Expenses 150 ($67k) Net assets -456 ($-35170)2020 Revenue 93 ($28k) Expenses 78 ($35k) Net assets -538 ($-41506)2021 Revenue 11 ($3k) Expenses 20 ($9k) Net assets -608 ($-46918)2022 Revenue 151 ($46k) Expenses 47 ($21k) Net assets -288 ($-22250)2023 Revenue 133 ($40k) Expenses 32 ($14k) Net assets 47 ($4k)2024 Revenue 82 ($25k) Expenses 65 ($29k) Net assets -8 ($-640)
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Revenue (82)Expenses (65)Net assets (-8)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

24% of BATTLE CREEK AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,189 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
17
$9k
18
$34k
19
$6k
20
$5k
21
$25k
22
$26k
23
$4k
24
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $0.

Funder
'18
'19
'20
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

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.

69%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

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.

DC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like BATTLE CREEK AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Michigan

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BATTLE CREEK AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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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.

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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing