Michigan · Nonprofit
LENAWEE CHAMBER FOUNDATION
LENAWEE CHAMBER FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $599,500 to it, the largest being SAGE FOUNDATION ($425,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $122k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $600k
- Net assets
- $71k
What Lenawee Chamber Foundation does
Mission
to promote economic development in Lenawee County
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
to promote economic development in Lenawee County
$125,557 spentof which $48,775 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $125,557.
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 2019 to 2020, from $26k to $79k (+205%).
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: 2020 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of LENAWEE CHAMBER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
James Kapnick
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $100k → $122k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.9M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lenawee Community Foundation); $60k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Lenawee Chamber Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LENAWEE CHAMBER FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of LENAWEE CHAMBER 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
LENAWEE CHAMBER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 85% · 2021 51% · 2022 65% · 2023 82% — 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
92% of LENAWEE CHAMBER FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
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.
Against its field
LENAWEE CHAMBER FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding LENAWEE CHAMBER FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $545k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$500k
- Department of Agriculture$45k
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 LENAWEE CHAMBER FOUNDATION
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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
- Lenawee Economic Development Corpor · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LENAWEE CHAMBER 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LENAWEE CHAMBER FOUNDATION?
- LENAWEE CHAMBER FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $599,500 to it, the largest being SAGE FOUNDATION ($425,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LENAWEE CHAMBER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $599,500 in grants to LENAWEE CHAMBER FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LENAWEE CHAMBER FOUNDATION?
- SAGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $425,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LENAWEE CHAMBER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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