Michigan · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS
FRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS (Michigan) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $718,014 to it, the largest being BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($223,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $79k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $718k
- Net assets
- $587k
What Friends of Berrien County Trails does
Mission
Support the construction and maintenance of trails (pedestrian, bicycle and waterway) within berrien county and connecting to adjacent counties, and encourage trail use.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Berrien county trails - the Friends of Berrien County Trails envisions a future in which walking, paddling, and bicycling opportunities are easily accessible throughout berrien county for people of all ages and abilities. The goal is to educate, advocate, identify & develop trail, and secure funding.
$161,348 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $161,348.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $515k to $587k (+14%).
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.
90% of FRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $26k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 FRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS’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
FRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
38% 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 FRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 50% · 2022 34% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
FRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $265k 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
FRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like FRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS
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
31% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
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 FRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS: 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 FRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS?
- FRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS (Michigan) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $718,014 to it, the largest being BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($223,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $718,014 in grants to FRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS?
- BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $223,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 19 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