Michigan · Nonprofit
Four Lakes Task Force
Four Lakes Task Force (Michigan) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $963,182 to it, the largest being The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation ($840,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Four Lakes Task Force has grown faster than three-quarters of the 157 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 157 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Edward and Elyse Rogers Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
- United Way of Midland Countyshared funderslocal
- The Herrington-Fitch Family Foundation Inc C/O Leslie Leeportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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: 2020 79% · 2021 95% · 2022 99% · 2023 91% · 2024 85% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of Four Lakes Task Force’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $140k → $139k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Four Lakes Task Force’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
Four Lakes Task Force leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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: 2018 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 89% · 2022 5% · 2023 6% — 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
20% of Four Lakes Task Force's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
Four Lakes Task Force draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Edward and Elyse Rogers Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchMI · funds 7 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Midland Countyshared funderslocalMI · backs 25 organizations that share your funders · funds 29 organizations near you
- The Herrington-Fitch Family Foundation Inc C/O Leslie Leeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Porter Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Americana Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jim and Diana Huckle Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Les & Ann Biederman Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Great Lakes Fishery Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sam and Gail Murdough Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Little Orchard Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hunting Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Duffy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Four Lakes Task Force receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35.5M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$35.5M
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 Four Lakes Task Force
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Four Lakes Task Force: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Four Lakes Task Force?
- Four Lakes Task Force (Michigan) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $963,182 to it, the largest being The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation ($840,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Four Lakes Task Force have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $963,182 in grants to Four Lakes Task Force, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Four Lakes Task Force?
- The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $840,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Four Lakes Task Force 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing