Michigan · Nonprofit
TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER
TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,936,387 to it, the largest being GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($377,679). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Traverse Bay Childrens Advocacy Center does
Mission
The traverse bay children's advocacy is built upon a model of success used by children's advocacy centers nationwide, and customized through collaborative team input in our region. Our mission speaks to protecting children by providing prevention, assessment, and treatment of child sexual and physical abuse that is child sensitive, supportive, and safe.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Traverse bay children's advocacy, (tbcac) is committed to protecting children, and supporting families by providing prevention, advocacy, awareness, multi-disciplinary intervention, assessment, and treatment of child sexual and physical abuse. The center provides on-site counseling and forensic interview services, all in an environment that is child sensitive, supportive and safe. The center's intervention and prevention programs serve antrim, grand traverse, kalkaska, leelanau and wexford counties. From october 1, 2024 through september 30, 2025, 5,353 children and families were served.
$1,068,993 spent93% of program spendingBetween october 1, 2024 and september 30, 2025, the tbcac continued with the program described as a "public will campaign" to make child sexual abuse rare and non-recurring in our lifetime. The program is funded through corporate sponsorship from the michigan state university over a period of 5 years in annual grant installments. The campaign entails discovery, development, implementation, and evaluation of prevention interventions in the grand traverse region to be eventually expanded statewide.
$80,042 spent7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,149,035.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $3.1M to $4.0M (+29%).
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: 2018 33% · 2019 28% · 2020 28% · 2021 58% · 2022 37% · 2023 23% · 2024 52% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Wilson Bill Brott
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $27k → $194k.
6 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. 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
TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
59% 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 TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 44% · 2019 50% · 2020 49% · 2021 23% · 2022 31% · 2023 57% — 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.
How long its funders stay
41% of TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
71% of TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $630k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
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In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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
- 2000 Chartwell LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: 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 TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER?
- TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,936,387 to it, the largest being GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($377,679). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $1,936,387 in grants to TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER?
- GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $377,679 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 35 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