How much did GREAT LAKES FISHERY TRUST INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of GREAT LAKES FISHERY TRUST INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

conserveconservationnaturalstreamsrestorationwatershedhuron

2019

regentsottawadistrictnaturalplacesstreamsconservation

2020

flint rivercooperativegrand rapidsrapids museumriver watershednaturalprotected

2021

preserve michigan'smichigan's waterwayswaterways wildlifewildlife forestsforests futurefuture generations

2022

preserve michigan'smichigan's waterwayswaterways wildlifewildlife forestsforests futurefuture generations

2023

watershed roadroad streamstream crossingcrossing inventoryspawningfishlake

2024

evaluatelakefishyouthriver

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k1 grant · $44k
$50k–250k4 grants · $680k
$250k+6 grants · $2.4M

$250,000

Median grant

States reached

$23M

Total assets

Largest grants

MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES$750,000
CARLETON UNIVERSITY$423,340
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR SUNY AT BROCKPORT$403,982
CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE$315,000
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION$276,837
LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY BANDS OF ODAWA INDIANS$250,000
TROUT UNLIMITED INC$200,000
GREAT LAKES ST LAWRENCE GOVERNORS & PREMIERS$183,098
CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY$172,340
BAY MILLS INDIAN COMMUNITY$125,000
HURON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL$43,723

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 57% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$13M · 25 repeat orgs$5.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +87% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$13M

$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%

+17%

Still filing today

52%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentAnimalsEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

CR
CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE
6× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +35%
GL
GREAT LAKES FISHERY COMMISSION
2× · 2020–2022 · $908k · revenue +19%
HP
HURON PINES
6× · 2018–2023 · $629k · revenue +91%

Funded once

NR
NATURAL RESOURCES DEPARTMENT
one grant, 2017 · $430k
PM
PERE MARQUETTE CHARTER TOWNSHIP
one grant, 2022 · $317k
UO
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
one grant, 2022 · $313k · revenue +2%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Michigan Lakes and Streams

Preservation and protection of michigan inland lakes and streams

Environment

Michigan Water Environment Association

To educate and advocate for preserving, restoring, and enhancing michigan's water resources.

Environment

Michigan Forest Association

To promote good management on all forest land & to educate our members about good forest practices

Public Benefit

Trout Unlimited Michigan Council

To conserve protect and restore michigans trout and salmon fisheries and their watersheds.

Animals

The Northern Michigan University

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education

North Dakota Natural Resources

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Little Traverse Conservancy Inc

To protect the natural diversity and beauty of northern Michigan by preserving significant land and scenic areas, and fostering appreciation and understanding of the environment.

Environment

Michigan Wildlife Habitat Foundatio

To restore and conserve fish, wildlife, and habitat throughout the state and teach members and the public to do the same.

Environment

New York Water Environment

To serve the best interests of the public by promoting sustainable clean water quality management through science, education, and training.

Environment

Center for Northern Woodlands

Advance a culture of forest stewardship in the northeast.

Public Safety & Disaster

The Wetlands Institute

The mission of the wetlands institute is to promote appreciation, understanding and stewardship of wetland and coastal ecosystems through programs in research, conservation and education.

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North American Lake Management Society

To forge partnerships among citizens, scientists, and professionals to foster the management and protection of lakes and reservoirs for today and tomorrow.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Resource Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Hope College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/57

the rest of the field

10%

5,620/53,799

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/24

Grantees still filing

20/24

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$11,855,937Environment$2,454,172Animals$1,867,592Arts & Culture$880,157Education$760,634Philanthropy$326,578

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC23.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Dte Energy Foundation · Inter-Tribal Council · Community Foundation for Southeast · The Nature Conservancy · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative · The Brookby Foundation · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area · Frey Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation GREAT LAKES FISHERY TRUST INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FLINT RIVER WATERSHED COALITION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 383546239 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FLINT RIVER WATERSHED COALITION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 37% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Great Lakes Fishery Trust Inc?

Find your warmest path to Great Lakes Fishery Trust Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

GREAT LAKES FISHERY TRUST INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Great Lakes Fishery Trust Inc?

More from the funding graph

GREAT LAKES FISHERY TRUST INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Great Lakes Fishery Trust Inc?

More from the funding graph