Michigan · Nonprofit
SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION
SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,000 to it, the largest being BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($170,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,946 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,946 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Degroot Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Lakeland Health Foundation Benton Harbor/Stjosephlocal
- US Chamber of Commerce Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN REGIONAL 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
SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION.
“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
94% of SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $170k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 2 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Degroot Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchMI · funds 13 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Lakeland Health Foundation Benton Harbor/StjosephlocalMI · funds 32 organizations near you
- US Chamber of Commerce Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council of Michigan Foundationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chemical Bank Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McLaren Bay Regionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Klopcic Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Julius H and Barbara B Beers Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Weinlander Fitzhugh Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lawrence and Sylvia Wong Foundation C/O James Vanderroestportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bierlein Companies Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN REGIONAL 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION?
- SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,000 to it, the largest being BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($170,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $180,000 in grants to SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION?
- BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $170,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN REGIONAL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing