Michigan · Nonprofit
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF MICHIGAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF MICHIGAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,331 to it, the largest being Better Business Bureau of Central California Foundation Inc ($22,331). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- The Sebastian Foundationshared funderslocal
- The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundationportfolio match
- Degroot Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $8k.
From the IRS filings of BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF MICHIGAN EDUCATIONAL 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
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF MICHIGAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
58% 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 BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF MICHIGAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2023 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
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF MICHIGAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 372 organizations that share them.
- The Sebastian Foundationshared funderslocalMI · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · funds 55 organizations near you
- The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Degroot Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Uaw Michigan Community Action Programportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospitalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chemical Bank Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lawrence and Sylvia Wong Foundation C/O James Vanderroestportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Public Employees Benefit Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Energy Firstportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Huff Family Liquidating Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bronson Healthcare Groupportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Health Alliance Plan of Michiganportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF MICHIGAN EDUCATIONAL 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 1 related entity
- Better Business Bureau of Western Michigan Incorporated · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF MICHIGAN EDUCATIONAL 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF MICHIGAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF MICHIGAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,331 to it, the largest being Better Business Bureau of Central California Foundation Inc ($22,331). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF MICHIGAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $38,331 in grants to BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF MICHIGAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF MICHIGAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- Better Business Bureau of Central California Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $22,331 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF MICHIGAN EDUCATIONAL 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 4funders 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