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BAY LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ENVIRONMENTAL FUND

BAY LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ENVIRONMENTAL FUND (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $294,122 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($139,830). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$388k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$294k
Net assets
$1.1M
6/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Bay Lake Improvement Association Environmental Fund does

Mission

Preserve and enhance the natural environment of bay lake.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Search for eurasion water milfoil in bay lake and treat with herbicides. Plantings for shorelines.

    $234,791 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $234,791.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($226k) Expenses 100 ($149k) Net assets 100 ($568k)2018 Revenue 103 ($234k) Expenses 108 ($160k) Net assets 113 ($641k)2019 Revenue 111 ($252k) Expenses 114 ($170k) Net assets 127 ($723k)2020 Revenue 87 ($196k) Expenses 112 ($166k) Net assets 133 ($754k)2021 Revenue 140 ($316k) Expenses 154 ($229k) Net assets 148 ($838k)2022 Revenue 150 ($339k) Expenses 144 ($214k) Net assets 165 ($939k)2023 Revenue 165 ($372k) Expenses 205 ($304k) Net assets 180 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 171 ($388k) Expenses 211 ($314k) Net assets 193 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (171)Expenses (211)Net assets (193)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $845k to $961k (+14%).

$570k
$647k
$732k
$754k
$845k
$961k
$1.0M
$1.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

45% of BAY LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ENVIRONMENTAL FUND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$78k
’17
$73k
’18
$82k
’19
$31k
’20
$87k
’21
$126k
’22
$68k
’23
$74k
’24
41
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed413131313131313
Joined·+9+0+4+0+0+0+5
No longer listed·0040005
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $17k → $32k.

6 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of BAY LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ENVIRONMENTAL FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

BAY LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ENVIRONMENTAL FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

97% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BAY LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ENVIRONMENTAL FUND.

48%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 55% · 2019 40% · 2020 31% · 2021 91% · 2022 57% · 2023 78% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

97% of BAY LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ENVIRONMENTAL FUND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $284k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BAY LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ENVIRONMENTAL FUND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Months of reserve40.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 25%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

91%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds BAY LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ENVIRONMENTAL FUND?
BAY LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ENVIRONMENTAL FUND (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $294,122 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($139,830). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BAY LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ENVIRONMENTAL FUND have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $294,122 in grants to BAY LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ENVIRONMENTAL FUND, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BAY LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ENVIRONMENTAL FUND?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $139,830 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BAY LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ENVIRONMENTAL FUND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing