Michigan · Nonprofit
BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC
BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,352,790 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($27,918,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $31M
- Net assets
- $61M
What Battle Creek Unlimited Inc does
Mission
Build a strong community by driving strategic investment and job creation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Development and marketing of fort custer industrial park and recruitment and retention of business in the city of battle creek.
$3,050,472 spentof which $318,519 as grants33% of program spendingManagement and promotion of the frederick r. Brydges customs cargo center.
$771,980 spent$552,634 earned by the program8% of program spendingPurchase, renovation, and operation of buildings and areas downtown.
$5,544,987 spent59% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,367,439.
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 $84M to $122M (+45%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 75% · 2018 83% · 2019 49% · 2020 36% · 2021 29% · 2022 15% · 2023 47% · 2024 73% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Joseph Sobieralski
President/CEO
Board chair
Erick Stewart
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $2.4M.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 UNLIMITED INC’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 UNLIMITED INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 90% · 2021 99% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% — diversifying over time.
“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
100% of BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $230k 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 UNLIMITED INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.6M on record.
- Department of Commerce$2.6M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC
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.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
53%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- West Mi Land Holding LLC · disregarded
- Battle Creek River 1 LLC · disregarded
- Battle Creek River 2 LLC · disregarded
- Battle Creek River 3 LLC · disregarded
- Mich-Air-Btl LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC?
- BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,352,790 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($27,918,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $31,352,790 in grants to BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $27,918,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BATTLE CREEK UNLIMITED INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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