Michigan · Nonprofit
MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE
MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $790,000 to it, the largest being DOW COMPANY FOUNDATION ($560,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $980k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $790k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Midland Business Alliance does
Mission
The Midland Business Alliance (mba) is midland county's integrated business hub, serving a vibrant community in which the people, industry, and businesses prosper. The purpose of mba is to develop, advance, and promote the economic, industrial, commercial, professional, social, cultural, and civic welfare of the midland area.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To develop, advance, and promote the economic, industrial, commercial, professional, social, cultural, and civic welfare of the midland area.
$890,166 spentof which $510,000 as grants$310,388 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $890,166.
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 2018 to 2019, from $2.7M to $3.9M (+44%).
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.
7% of MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 7 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
Craig Lang
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $14k → $155k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest McLaren Bay Region). These are real filings, and they are not money MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE raised.
From the IRS filings of MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE’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
MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
26% 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 MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 85% · 2022 77% · 2023 77% — 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 MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE'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
MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,990 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$12k
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 MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE
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
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Mitcon LLC · disregarded
- Midland Business Alliance Foundatio · exempt
- Midland Area Chamber of Commerce · exempt
- Cbm Services Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE: 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 MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE?
- MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $790,000 to it, the largest being DOW COMPANY FOUNDATION ($560,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $790,000 in grants to MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE?
- DOW COMPANY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $560,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing