Michigan · Nonprofit
BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS
BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS (Michigan) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,183,701 to it, the largest being DOUG MEIJER AND KENDALL MEIJER FOUNDATION ($500,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Beer City Dog Biscuits does
Mission
Beer City Dog Biscuits is a nonprofit in grand rapids, mi that empowers individuals with developmental disabilities by providing vocational training, employment, and community through the creation of dog biscuits.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To date we have had 300 brew bakers (adults with disabilities) come through our kitchen and over 200 volunteers. We have sold over 16,000 bags of biscuits. Bcdb does not receive state or federal funding, and 100% of proceeds are reinvested into the mission.
$348,361 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $348,361.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $569k to $2.2M (+293%).
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.
96% of BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $7k → $60k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS’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
BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 43% · 2021 88% · 2022 46% · 2023 33% — 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.
How long its funders stay
83% of BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
62% of BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS: 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 BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS?
- BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS (Michigan) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,183,701 to it, the largest being DOUG MEIJER AND KENDALL MEIJER FOUNDATION ($500,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,183,701 in grants to BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS?
- DOUG MEIJER AND KENDALL MEIJER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 21 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