Michigan · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,088,002 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($925,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $292k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $8k
What Center for Community Based Enterprise does
Mission
The Center for Community Based Enterprise is a non-profit organization working to create living-wage jobs through worker-ownership in all of its forms. We provide legal help, technical assistance,education, and collaboration to individuals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
.in the 10/01/2023-09/30/2024 tax year, c2be has provided employee ownership exploration services to 45 unique businesses; plus an additional 16 businesses that we worked with in both 2023 and 2024, for a total of 61 businesses. .c2be has 3 active businesses getting financial and management assesment for worker ownership, including a project we are working on jointly with another detroit-based cooperative developer. .c2be worked with two detroit legacy black-owned businesses, to help them consider employee ownership as an exit strategy. .c2be received technical assitance funding via the treasury departments state small business credit initiative (ssbc) technical assistance program. As part of a consortium of four michigan organizations around the state, we are all focused on businesses that center people, with a particular interest in all variations of employee relationship,managed by the michigan economic development corporation. It is the first time in recent recent history that the state is investing in employee ownership as a business strategy. The funding initiative aims to increase small businesses access to technical assisitance and loan capital, and in this case potential…
$168,345 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $168,345.
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 2018 to 2019, from $559k to $286k (−49%).
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.
66% of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% 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
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
Karen Tyler-Ruiz
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $283k → $110k.
1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE’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
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
31% 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 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 59% · 2019 100% · 2020 59% · 2021 56% · 2022 42% · 2023 100% — 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
25% of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE'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
87% of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k 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
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE
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
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE: 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 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE?
- CENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,088,002 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($925,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $2,088,002 in grants to CENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $925,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 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