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Lake Michigan Bird Observatory

Bird research and conservation in the western lake michigan region of the united states.

$64k
Granted FY2023
7
Itemized grants FY2023
7
Organizations funded FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$56k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$8,000
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$328k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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.

Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy 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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Find your warmest path to Lake Michigan Bird Observatory through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Lake Michigan Bird Observatory

How much does Lake Michigan Bird Observatory give?
Lake Michigan Bird Observatory reported 7 itemized grants totaling $56,000, out of $64,100 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing.
What does Lake Michigan Bird Observatory fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2023, its largest causes are Environment (100%).
Who are Lake Michigan Bird Observatory's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2023: Driftless Area Land Conservancy Inc ($8k), Wild Rivers Conservancy of the St Croix & Namekagon ($8k), Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance Inc ($8k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Lake Michigan Bird Observatory?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Lake Michigan Bird Observatory based?
Lake Michigan Bird Observatory is based in WI.

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 7 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $5k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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