Michigan · Nonprofit
Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior
Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,016 to it, the largest being GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($70,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $84k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $134k
- Net assets
- $106k
What Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior does
Mission
Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Community Enrichment: Facilitated & Expanded a drop off vape recycling program to prevent hazardous waste from being littered in the community. Continued partnering with local parks and recreation committee to maintain a native plant garden and outdoor classroom. Participated in a network of local and regional entities working to maintain local environmental resiliency. Engaged with local governments to discourage development in environmentally sensitive areas. Hosted and participated in local environmental stewardship efforts.
$16,365 spent25% of program spendingEducation: Provided public information on key issues including wetland foundations and importance, hazardous waste disposal, native plant ecosystems, and impact of proposed mining projects in the Lake Superior watershed. Targeted general population of upper peninsula MI through 34 outreach community events, local and regional media coverage, and print media. Targeted broad audiences via website, Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube social media content.
$32,005 spent49% of program spendingResearch: Analyzed local government ordinance provisions regarding water protection. Analyzed permit documents, relevant policy, and historical context for proposed mining projects. Funded internships for two local university students to research local environmental issues.
$16,335 spent25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $64,705.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $99k to $106k (+6%).
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.
100% of Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $30k → $17k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior’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
Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 88% — diversifying over time.
“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
52% of Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior'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 $64k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior: 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 Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior?
- Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,016 to it, the largest being GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($70,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $134,016 in grants to Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior?
- GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 6 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