Michigan · Nonprofit
ENCOURAGE BC
ENCOURAGE BC (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,155,655 to it, the largest being BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,958,840). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Encourage Bc does
Mission
Encourage Bc!, a michigan not-for-profit organization, is a supporting organization of the battle creek community foundation. Its purpose is to work to energize and facilitate positive charitable ideas for individuals or groups in our community to be active in matters that affect their everyday lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Encourage Bc! Provided fiscal services for over 60 community projects in the battle creek area.
$758,824 spentof which $2,292 as grants$234,280 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $758,824.
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 2021 to 2022, from $327k to $930k (+184%).
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.
85% of ENCOURAGE BC’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 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
Mary Muliett
President/CEO - partial year
Board chair
Susan Baldwin
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $35k → $184k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 ENCOURAGE BC’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
ENCOURAGE BC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ENCOURAGE BC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 74% · 2022 89% · 2023 99% — 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
91% of ENCOURAGE BC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $192k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M 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.
Against its field
ENCOURAGE BC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ENCOURAGE BC
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Battle Creek Community Foundation · exempt
- Burnham Brooks Community Center · exempt
- Legacy Scholars · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ENCOURAGE BC: 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 ENCOURAGE BC?
- ENCOURAGE BC (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,155,655 to it, the largest being BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,958,840). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ENCOURAGE BC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $2,155,655 in grants to ENCOURAGE BC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ENCOURAGE BC?
- BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,958,840 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENCOURAGE BC 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 5 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