Michigan · Nonprofit
TRAVERSE CONNECT
TRAVERSE CONNECT (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,500 to it, the largest being NATIONAL DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Traverse Connect does
Mission
Advance economic vitality of the grand traverse region through growth of family-sustaining careers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Traverse Connect investors support the organizations efforts to create a unified regional strategy for economic and community development, grow and attract second stage businesses, and develop and attract a talented workforce. The organization served approximately 950 members throughout the year.
$455,451 spent$870,652 earned by the program14% of program spendingAnnual events hosted by Traverse Connect include networking opportunities, regional development and educational events, and professional development programs. The organization served approximately 7,000 participants throughout the year.
$1,415,772 spent$1,307,143 earned by the program43% of program spendingEconomic development identifies and facilitates economic development opportunities within the region for the benefit of the region's economy and its residents.
$1,452,369 spent$195,322 earned by the program44% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,323,592.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $205k to $2.6M (+1183%).
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: 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of TRAVERSE CONNECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Warren Call
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $28k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Right Place Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money TRAVERSE CONNECT raised.
From the IRS filings of TRAVERSE CONNECT’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
TRAVERSE CONNECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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
60% 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 CONNECT.
“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
TRAVERSE CONNECT draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states in all.
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
TRAVERSE CONNECT has grown faster than half of the 2,299 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like TRAVERSE CONNECT
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Traverse Connect-Pac · exempt
- Traverse Connect Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRAVERSE CONNECT: 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 CONNECT?
- TRAVERSE CONNECT (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,500 to it, the largest being NATIONAL DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRAVERSE CONNECT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $12,500 in grants to TRAVERSE CONNECT.
- Who is the largest funder of TRAVERSE CONNECT?
- NATIONAL DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRAVERSE CONNECT 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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