Michigan · Nonprofit
CLARK LAKE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC
CLARK LAKE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,000 to it, the largest being SEARLES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($91,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $195k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $165k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Clark Lake Spirit Foundation Inc does
Mission
To receive and administer funds for educational and charitable purposes pertaining to the preservation of the history and heritage of clark lake, michigan.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To improve the clark lake experience through promoting events and supporting social activity, conservation, and community pride.
$1,622 spent6% of program spendingTo maintain the spirit trail, a 7.5 mile trail which promotes the natural beauty and environmental benefits of the lake.
$7,804 spent30% of program spendingTo preserve the clark lake community center.
$16,950 spent64% of program spendingTo preserve the clark lake community center.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,376.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $248k to $757k (+205%).
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.
79% of CLARK LAKE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $10k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 CLARK LAKE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC’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
CLARK LAKE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 77% · 2022 76% · 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
62% of CLARK LAKE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CLARK LAKE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CLARK LAKE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC
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.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 CLARK LAKE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CLARK LAKE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC?
- CLARK LAKE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,000 to it, the largest being SEARLES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($91,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLARK LAKE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $165,000 in grants to CLARK LAKE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLARK LAKE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC?
- SEARLES FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $91,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLARK LAKE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC 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.
Play a game about who funds Clark Lake Spirit →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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