Michigan · Public charity
Great Lakes Bay Foundation
The mission of the GREAT LAKES BAY FOUNDATION is to encourage, support and celebrate regional collaboration and initiatives that will improve the economic vitality and quality of life in the great lakes bay region.
- $30k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $8k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $8,350
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $8,350
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $110k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Great Lakes Bay Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $8k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $41k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $45k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $26k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $39k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $203k | 57% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $372k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delta College | $150,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Saginaw Valley State University | $115,555 | 5 | n/a |
| Gratiot-Isabella Resd | $91,350 | 1 | n/a |
| Essexville-Hampton School | $88,629 | 2 | n/a |
| Mid Michigan College | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bay City Public Schools | $64,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Michigan University | $59,195 | 3 | n/a |
| Freeland Community Schools | $25,745 | 2 | n/a |
| Bullock Creek Schools | $15,384 | 1 | n/a |
| Carrollton Public Schools | $13,496 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delta College | $150,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Saginaw Valley State University | $115,555 | 5 | n/a |
| Gratiot-Isabella Resd | $91,350 | 1 | n/a |
| Essexville-Hampton School | $88,629 | 2 | n/a |
| Mid Michigan College | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bay City Public Schools | $64,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Michigan University | $59,195 | 3 | n/a |
| Freeland Community Schools | $25,745 | 2 | n/a |
| Bullock Creek Schools | $15,384 | 1 | n/a |
| Carrollton Public Schools | $13,496 | 1 | n/a |
| Chippewa Nature Center | $11,257 | 1 | 0% |
| Standish-Sterling Community Schools | $9,387 | 1 | n/a |
| Renaissance Public School Academy | $5,019 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
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: Michigan College Access Network · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Saginaw Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Great Lakes Bay Foundation
- How much does Great Lakes Bay Foundation give?
- Great Lakes Bay Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $8,350, out of $30,279 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Great Lakes Bay Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (85%), Human Services (12%), Environment (2%).
- Who are Great Lakes Bay Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Delta College ($150k), Saginaw Valley State University ($116k), Gratiot-Isabella Resd ($91k).
- Does Great Lakes Bay Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Great Lakes Bay Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Michigan College Access Network, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), Saginaw Community Foundation.
- Where is Great Lakes Bay Foundation based?
- Great Lakes Bay Foundation is based in MI.
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