Michigan · Nonprofit
Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc
Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,169,981 to it, the largest being CHARLES STEWART MOTT FOUNDATION ($3,296,827). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $7.2M
- Net assets
- $772k
What Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to promote the protection and enhancement of water quality and water resources in the Great Lakes. Freshwater Future builds effective community-based initiatives to protect and restore the water quality of the Great Lakes basin.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided group and individualized one-on-one assistance to community-based groups through professional support. Assistance included training to keep organizations well run and compliant with state and federal laws and guidelines, growing their ability to efficiently build their internal administrative systems, and providing tools to help them achieve their water protection missions and goals.
$734,554 spent49% of program spendingConducted educational opportunities on public policy issues of regional, state and local importance on water issues in the Great Lakes region. Opportunities were provided for residents to educate themselves and their agency and elected officials on critical water needs such as protecting water both in the environment and for drinking water, how to stay safe from contaminants in drinking water, and ensuring everyone has access to water.
$415,627 spent28% of program spendingThrough grant-making programs, provided financial support to activities that actively promote river, lake, wetland, groundwater and drinking water protection. Fifty-one grants were awarded through three funding programs. Typical projects included protecting lakes and streams from invasive species, providing communications about water protection, protecting groundwater and helping residents secure and install filters in communities with drinking water contamination.
$359,629 spentof which $259,610 as grants24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,509,810.
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 2022 to 2023, from $948k to $1.2M (+29%).
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 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 4 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.
Board chair
Bettina Marshall
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $315k → $998k.
6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund 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
Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 71% · 2019 72% · 2020 57% · 2021 26% · 2022 48% · 2023 43% — 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
47% of Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
79% of Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund 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. $673k 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.
Against its field
Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc is better cushioned than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
41%
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 Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc?
- Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,169,981 to it, the largest being CHARLES STEWART MOTT FOUNDATION ($3,296,827). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $7,169,981 in grants to Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc?
- CHARLES STEWART MOTT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,296,827 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund 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.
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 29 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