Michigan · Nonprofit
CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE
CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE (Michigan) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,390,221 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($4,514,437). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $9.4M
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Conservation Resource Alliance does
Mission
The Conservation Resource Alliance's mission is to preserve and protect northern michigan's waterways, wildlife, and forests for future generations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The stream restoration program is designed to address stream bank erosion, failing road stream crossings, dams, and recreational access sites, which cause adverse biological impacts to animal and plant life and threaten the ecology of entire watersheds. Restoration programs provide for road crossing improvements, structural stabilization measures, dam removal, and stream channel restoration to improve habitat and water quality. Four million acres in fifteen counties and fifteen streams have been aided through this program.
$3,068,186 spent86% of program spendingThe landowner & site services program is designed to assist landowners by developing management plans to keep wildlife corridors open between existing natural areas and along river corridors, in order to allow for the unrestricted movement of wildlife and the protection of water quality. Corridors along wetlands and streams contain a high diversity of plants and animals whose habitat has become increasingly fragmented by development.
$332,073 spent9% of program spendingThe planning and consulting programs involve facilitating local leadership and planning in cra's service area, plus agile and carefully matched involvement in regional efforts at the state, great lakes and national scale. Through our planning and consulting work, cra is committed to staying proactive and highly current on each local watershed and corridor. We have also added value by sharing our successful models with others throughout the great lakes.
$155,814 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,556,073.
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.
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 $4.1M to $5.2M (+24%).
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: 2017 56% · 2018 84% · 2019 61% · 2020 54% · 2021 44% · 2022 46% · 2023 45% · 2024 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Suzanne Knoll
Executive director
Board chair
Daniel Hubbell
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 25 funders, grant income fell $1.2M → $1.2M.
8 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 funders by total. 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
CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 64% · 2019 87% · 2020 34% · 2021 37% · 2022 28% · 2023 36% — 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.
How long its funders stay
68% of CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $321k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Government funding CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.2M on record.
- Department of the Interior$4.1M
- Department of Agriculture$844k
- Environmental Protection Agency$200k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE: 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 CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE?
- CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE (Michigan) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,390,221 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($4,514,437). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $9,390,221 in grants to CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,514,437 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 44 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing