Michigan · Nonprofit
WEST MICHIGAN FOOD PROCESSING ASSOCIATION
WEST MICHIGAN FOOD PROCESSING ASSOCIATION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $274,000 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN HEALTH ENDOWMENT FUND ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $383k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $274k
- Net assets
- $166k
What West Michigan Food Processing Association does
Mission
Organized to support the west michigan food processing industry related to six pillar strategies: economic development, education, incubation, logistics, healthy food, and sustainable practices. The mission and goal of the wmfpa is to connect west michigan's existing food processing industry from "farm to table" by taking a holistic approach to link farmers, food processors, state and local government, and economic development officals with the resources, infrastructure, new markets, and educational institutions that are able to train the current and future workforce leading to sustainable regional job creation, economic growth, and an enhanced regional dashboard.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Wmfpa was successful in assisting in multiple economic development projects within the west michigan region. The farm (food, agriculture, research, and manufacturing) accelerator building/facility was successfully built and plans were made to being accelerator operations in 2021. Educators were brought together to network and develop and strengthen training development to the food industry. A statewide webinar related to covid support to the food processing industry was conducted in october 2020. Over 300 stakeholders are on the wmfpa email list and received frequent communications updates to support the food processing industry. A facebook social media was established to communicate needs related to covid support and other pillar strategies throughout the year.
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $160k to $347k (+117%).
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: 2023 50% · 2024 93% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of WEST MICHIGAN FOOD PROCESSING ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Gene Ford
Chairperson
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.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 WEST MICHIGAN FOOD PROCESSING ASSOCIATION’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
WEST MICHIGAN FOOD PROCESSING ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
100% 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 WEST MICHIGAN FOOD PROCESSING ASSOCIATION.
“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
100% of WEST MICHIGAN FOOD PROCESSING ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $124k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
WEST MICHIGAN FOOD PROCESSING ASSOCIATION has grown faster than half of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WEST MICHIGAN FOOD PROCESSING ASSOCIATION
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.
Governance
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WEST MICHIGAN FOOD PROCESSING ASSOCIATION: 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 WEST MICHIGAN FOOD PROCESSING ASSOCIATION?
- WEST MICHIGAN FOOD PROCESSING ASSOCIATION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $274,000 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN HEALTH ENDOWMENT FUND ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST MICHIGAN FOOD PROCESSING ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $274,000 in grants to WEST MICHIGAN FOOD PROCESSING ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST MICHIGAN FOOD PROCESSING ASSOCIATION?
- MICHIGAN HEALTH ENDOWMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST MICHIGAN FOOD PROCESSING ASSOCIATION 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 2020–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing