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RIVER RAISIN NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD PARK FOUNDATION INC

RIVER RAISIN NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD PARK FOUNDATION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,318,400 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($870,112). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$620k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$2.0M
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What River Raisin National Battlefield Park Foundation Inc does

Mission

Working in partnership with the national park service, including work in land acquisition, preservation, battlefield rehabilitation, coordinating community visioning, planning and development of the river raisin corridor, as well as creative educational activities to enhance interpretation of the battles of the river raisin and their aftermath.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Event/program revenue

    $2,355,060 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,355,060.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($277k) Expenses 100 ($380k) Net assets 100 ($252k)2018 Revenue 170 ($471k) Expenses 69 ($260k) Net assets 184 ($464k)2019 Revenue 201 ($556k) Expenses 69 ($262k) Net assets 301 ($758k)2020 Revenue 674 ($1.9M) Expenses 88 ($334k) Net assets 910 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 297 ($823k) Expenses 125 ($476k) Net assets 1049 ($2.6M)2022 Revenue 459 ($1.3M) Expenses 71 ($270k) Net assets 1444 ($3.6M)2023 Revenue 539 ($1.5M) Expenses 352 ($1.3M) Net assets 1507 ($3.8M)2024 Revenue 224 ($620k) Expenses 636 ($2.4M) Net assets 796 ($2.0M)
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Revenue (224)Expenses (636)Net assets (796)Peer revenue range

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 $3.8M to $2.0M (−47%).

$686k
$801k
$959k
$2.3M
$2.6M
$3.6M
$3.8M
$2.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 58% · 2018 20% · 2019 24% · 2020 80% · 2021 55% · 2022 79% · 2023 82% · 2024 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

89% of RIVER RAISIN NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD PARK FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$103k
’17
$211k
’18
$294k
’19
$1.5M
’20
$347k
’21
$1000k
’22
$156k
’23
−$1.8M
’24
0.8
months of
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

H Douglas Chaffin

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1915151512121716
Joined·+1+0+3+0+0+6+3
No longer listed·5033014
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $30k → $253k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
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'25*
total
$870k
funders
2
2
2
3
4
2
2
1
1

2 of 5 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.

Left out of every figure on this page: $253k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Promedica Health System Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money RIVER RAISIN NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD PARK FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of RIVER RAISIN NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD PARK FOUNDATION INC’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

RIVER RAISIN NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD PARK FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

70% 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 RIVER RAISIN NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD PARK FOUNDATION INC.

66%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 85% · 2019 60% · 2020 91% · 2021 64% · 2022 100% · 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.

Where its funders are

RIVER RAISIN NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD PARK FOUNDATION INC draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 3 states in all.

MI
MO
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RIVER RAISIN NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD PARK FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−289% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

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Questions and answers

Who funds RIVER RAISIN NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD PARK FOUNDATION INC?
RIVER RAISIN NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD PARK FOUNDATION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,318,400 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($870,112). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RIVER RAISIN NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD PARK FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,318,400 in grants to RIVER RAISIN NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD PARK FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RIVER RAISIN NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD PARK FOUNDATION INC?
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $870,112 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RIVER RAISIN NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD PARK FOUNDATION INC 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 2017–2024), 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