Michigan · Nonprofit
BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER
BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,945,659 to it, the largest being GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,373,125). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Baxter Community Center does
Mission
Baxter Community Center serves as a neighborhood hub. Baxter offers a child development center, wholistic health center, food and clothing pantry, greenhouse and various educational enrichment classes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Educational services: children & youth services -baxter provides structured childcare for children 0-12. Out of time school programming is also offered. These are services for after school and summer programming.
$1,177,794 spent$72,832 earned by the program56% of program spendingHealth care programs - medical & dental clinic - provides professional health and dental services to an on-going client base for a small fee. Doctors, dentists, and nurses regularly volunteer. Nurses and dental hygienists are paid staff.
$408,627 spent$1,940 earned by the program19% of program spendingCommunity engagement services which include emergency assistance programs - family assistance - utilizes volunteers to provide emergency food, clothing resources, and advocacy for low income families and individuals. This also includes seminars and education classes for the community.
$530,281 spent$22,124 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,116,702.
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 $3.4M to $2.7M (−22%).
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 7% · 2018 11% · 2019 10% · 2020 26% · 2021 34% · 2022 44% · 2023 11% · 2024 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Sonja Forte
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $542k → $608k.
9 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 funders by total. 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
BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
42% 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 BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 26% · 2019 21% · 2020 47% · 2021 50% · 2022 20% · 2023 40% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
53% of BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
96% of BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states 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
BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER's funding base is broadening — from 17 funders to 24 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: 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 BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER?
- BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,945,659 to it, the largest being GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,373,125). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $6,945,659 in grants to BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER?
- GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,373,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER 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 54 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