Michigan · Nonprofit
BLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION
BLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $802,647 to it, the largest being Michigan Community Action Inc ($379,743). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION's revenue fell 34% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,812 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Community Economic Development Association of Michiganshared fundersportfolio match
- McLaren Port Huronshared funderslocal
- Wisconsin Community Action Program Association Incorporatedportfolio 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 94% · 2018 93% · 2019 89% · 2020 90% · 2021 93% · 2022 93% · 2023 89% · 2024 65% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of BLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION’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. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $136k → $51k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 BLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
BLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 BLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 66% · 2019 43% · 2020 57% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 90% — 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 BLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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 6 funders put you typical among the 212 organizations that share them.
- Community Economic Development Association of Michiganshared fundersportfolio matchMI · backs 4 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- McLaren Port Huronshared funderslocalMI · backs 6 organizations that share your funders · funds 9 organizations near you
- Wisconsin Community Action Program Association Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington State Community Action Partnershipportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Association of Community Action Directorsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Covering Kids & Families of Indiana Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Community Action Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wisconsin Balance of State Continuum of Care Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Great Rivers United Way Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Association of Community Action Agenciesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Economic Development Alliance of St Clair CountylocalMI · funds 11 organizations near you
- Michigan Coalition Against Homelessnessshared fundersMI · backs 5 organizations that share your funders
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.
Government funding BLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$26.0M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.5M
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 BLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 BLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION: 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 BLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION?
- BLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $802,647 to it, the largest being Michigan Community Action Inc ($379,743). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $802,647 in grants to BLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION?
- Michigan Community Action Inc is the largest funder on record, with $379,743 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION 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 6funders 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