Michigan · Nonprofit
SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS FORUM
SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS FORUM (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $63,000 to it, the largest being THE FRED & BARBARA ERB FAMILY FOUNDATION ($63,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $72k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $63k
- Net assets
- $101k
What Southeast Michigan Sustainable Business Forum does
Mission
Smsbfs mission is to deliver valuable content that locally owned, small businesses and community stakeholders can use to implement strategies and practices that lead to a diverse, resilient, just, democratic, and triple bottom line economy in detroit and the se michigan region.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Educating small business
$7,519 spent69% of program spendingEducating small businesses
$3,315 spent31% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $10,834.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $76k to $101k (+33%).
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.
100% of SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS FORUM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% 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.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Natalie Jakub
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS FORUM’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.
Where its funders are
100% of SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS FORUM's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
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
SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS FORUM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,327 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,327 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS FORUM
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.
Public support
100%
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 SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS FORUM: 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 SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS FORUM?
- SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS FORUM (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $63,000 to it, the largest being THE FRED & BARBARA ERB FAMILY FOUNDATION ($63,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS FORUM have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $63,000 in grants to SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS FORUM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS FORUM?
- THE FRED & BARBARA ERB FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $63,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS FORUM 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 FY2022 (financials across 2020–2022), and the filings of 1 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