Ohio · Nonprofit
CGLR FOUNDATION
CGLR FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,000 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE TO END PLASTIC WASTE INC ($342,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $909k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $438k
- Net assets
- $949k
What Cglr Foundation does
Mission
The Cglr Foundation brings together great lakes leaders from government, business, academia, and the nonprofit sector together to find new ways of harnessing the region's economic strengths, improving the well-being of the region's citizens, and protecting the environment for future generations through educational events, public policy research and programs, and awareness building activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Conferences and meetingsthe Cglr Foundation, in partnership with the cglr canada foundation, hosted the great lakes sustainable growth forum in toronto from june 26-28, 2024. Hundreds of business leaders, government officials, thought-leaders and subject matter experts from the bi-national great lakes economic region attended the ticketed event and discussed cosio-economic and environmental challenges facing the great lakes region. In addition to the forum, a series of business and sustainability free webinars and meetings were hosted on a variety of topics, from water stewardship and regional decarbonization, to sustainable food systems and plastic pollution and the circular economy.
$92,115 spent$6,825 earned by the program7% of program spendingPolicy, research and programsduring the fiscal year 2025-25, the Cglr Foundation continued developing the circular great lakes initiative, which brings companies together with government, academic, and nonprofit leaders to forge a future without material waste and pollution, starting with plastic. The initiative continued implementing its strategy and action plan, launching pilot projects and developing outreach materials. It also worked to expand its great lakes plastic cleanup that works with local partners to remove litter and waste using innovative technologies. During the year, the Cglr Foundation also launched its great lakes water innovation and stewardship exchange, an initiative that brings together multi-stakeholder groups to advance responsible water use and support operational water efficiencies.
$1,272,756 spentof which $333,699 as grants93% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,364,871.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $157k to $1.6M (+921%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CGLR FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Brian Ames
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of CGLR FOUNDATION’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
CGLR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 CGLR FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
CGLR FOUNDATION draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Against its field
CGLR FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CGLR FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 8 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The Council of the Great Lakes Region (Ohio) · exempt
- Council of the Great Lakes Region (Canada) · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CGLR FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CGLR FOUNDATION?
- CGLR FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,000 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE TO END PLASTIC WASTE INC ($342,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CGLR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $438,000 in grants to CGLR FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of CGLR FOUNDATION?
- ALLIANCE TO END PLASTIC WASTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $342,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CGLR FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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