Michigan · Nonprofit
FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,067 to it, the largest being EARTHSHARE CHAPTERS INC ($9,046). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $75k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $61k
What Fund for the Environment does
Mission
The fund for the envoronment was established in january, 1987 to support environmental causes and issues, including land conservation, clean air and water, and environmental education. The fund operated through grants from philanthropic partners and gifts from individuals, with the proceeds used by the fund to support environmental organizations in michigan. In 1988, the fund, working with national nonprofit earthshare, added the role of environmental workplace giving, with access in the state of michigan's workplace giving program, along with access in various federal agencies' workplace giving, and workplace giving with a handful of corporate partners. The fund did this first under the dba environmental fund for michigan; and then, in 1999, under a partnership with nonprofit environmental funds in 15 other states and national earthshare, operated undet the dba earthshare of michigan. In 2013, the legal status of earthshare of michigan changed from an affiliate of earthshare to a chap
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The fund served as the fiduciary for the annual gathering of the collaboration of regional trail initiatives (crti). Crti is an annual convening of institutions from around the country working on regional trail and greenway networks. Begun in 2018 as a program of the pennsylvania environmental council (pec) as a way to explore issues and opportunities associated with the circuit trails, a network of trails in and around philadelphia, it has expanded to include participants from as diverse as san francisco and portland, oregon to birmingham, alabama and st. Louis. As crti expanded beyond pennsylvania, the fund replaced pec as the fiduciary and institutional manager of crti. The 2025 event, held in charlotte, north carolina, was attended by 65 people representing 29 different states. Activities included learning from the place and engaging with local leaders, exploring challenges with maintenance, creative partnerships with the health community, and working with economically disadvantaged communities.
$58,185 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $58,185.
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.
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.
27% of FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $16.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT’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
FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2022 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
FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21 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
FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT has grown faster than three-quarters 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 FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
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
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: 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 FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT?
- FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,067 to it, the largest being EARTHSHARE CHAPTERS INC ($9,046). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $9,067 in grants to FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT?
- EARTHSHARE CHAPTERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,046 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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