· Public charity
Cglr Foundation
The CGLR FOUNDATION brings together great lakes leaders from government, business, academia, and the nonprofit sector together to find new ways of harnessing the region's economic strengths, improving the well-being of the region's citizens, and protecting the environment for future generations through educational events, public policy…
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $146k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL | $77,000 |
| GRAND TRAVERSE BAY WATERSHED INITIATIVE INC | $74,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $49,789 |
| MILWAUKEE RIVERKEEPER | $27,000 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $27,000 |
| GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN | $16,500 |
| BELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY | $6,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 7% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GVGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY2× · 2024–2025 · $125k
- TOTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY2× · 2024–2025 · $92k
- UOUniversity of Wisconsin Medical Foundation Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $42k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- GTGRAND TRAVERSE BAY WATERSHED INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2024 · $42k · revenue 0%
- HRHURON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCILgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $23k · revenue +137%
- HCHOPE COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $16k · revenue +7%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…
Merrimack river watershed council's mission is to protect the merrimack river watershed and promote the wise use of its watershed. this is accomplished through water quality monitoring, land restoration and protection, watershed education…
Be and create stewards for the water environment of michigan. provide high quality education for michigan's water professionals. educate and inform policy makers and the general public. promote scientifically sound environmental practices…
Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…
It is our mission at huron pines to conserve and enhance northern michigan's natural resources to ensure healthy water, protected places and vibrant communities. for alomst 50 years, our work across the forests, lakes and streams of…
To protect and restore central michigan's land, water, and wildlife resources to improve the quality of life for all.
To coordinate actions for protecting and restoring the health of owasco lake and its watershed to ensure that owasco lake will serve as a source of public drinking water, a recreational asset, an economic driver, and an important natural…
The mission of the 30 Mile River Watershed Association (30 Mile) is to work as a community for clean and healthy lakes, ponds and streams in our watershed. Since 2008, 30 Mile has led efforts to protect these waters from the growing…
We work to protect and improve water quality in the lakes and streams of the upper tippecanoe river watershed. we do this by implementing solutions to stop pollution, engaging youth & adults and uniting partners.
Wmeac's mission is to "inform and engage an inclusive community which acts together to protect natural resources and create a climate resilient west michigan."
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE BAY WATERSHED INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds HURON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Recycling for Charities ↗
- Who funds BELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cglr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cglr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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