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Michigan · Public charity

Great Lakes Colleges Association Inc

Together we will define the future of residential liberal arts education by developing and supporting faculty and staff as institutional citizens and by offering opportunities that successfully launch students into rewarding careers.

$358k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Itemized grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$346k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$60,025
Largest grant, FY2025
$169,788
Organizations funded a year
2 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$21M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Great Lakes Colleges Association Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$336k0%
FY20247$220k0%
FY202311$496k0%
FY20222$30k0%
FY20218$203k0%
FY202012$435k0%
FY201912$1.0M0%
FY201812$1.1M0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$5.1M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Antioch College Corporation$523,54271%
Earlham College Inc$521,58370%
Ohio Wesleyan University$420,13790%
Allegheny College$413,36060%
Denison University$405,48060%
Kalamazoo College$368,72660%
Wabash College$364,77860%
DePauw University$355,46680%
The College of Wooster$349,18870%
Kenyon College$344,24460%
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All grantees of Great Lakes Colleges Association Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Antioch College Corporation$523,54271%
Earlham College Inc$521,58370%
Ohio Wesleyan University$420,13790%
Allegheny College$413,36060%
Denison University$405,48060%
Kalamazoo College$368,72660%
Wabash College$364,77860%
DePauw University$355,46680%
The College of Wooster$349,18870%
Kenyon College$344,24460%
Hope College$334,70470%
Oberlin College$284,90760%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Great Lakes Colleges Association Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAntioch College Corporation: $523,542 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetEarlham College Inc: $521,583 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetOhio Wesleyan University: $420,137 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAllegheny College: $413,360 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDenison University: $405,480 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKalamazoo College: $368,726 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWabash College: $364,778 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDePauw University: $355,466 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe College of Wooster: $349,188 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKenyon College: $344,244 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHope College: $334,704 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOberlin College: $284,907 over 6y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Ibm International Fou…Raymond James Charita…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ibm International FoundationNY13.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Great Lakes Colleges Association Inc

How much does Great Lakes Colleges Association Inc give?
Great Lakes Colleges Association Inc reported 6 itemized grants totaling $346,379, out of $358,079 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Great Lakes Colleges Association Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Great Lakes Colleges Association Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Antioch College Corporation ($524k), Earlham College Inc ($522k), Ohio Wesleyan University ($420k).
Does Great Lakes Colleges Association Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Great Lakes Colleges Association Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ibm International Foundation, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
Where is Great Lakes Colleges Association Inc based?
Great Lakes Colleges Association Inc is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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