Michigan · Nonprofit
GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL ALLIANCE
GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL ALLIANCE (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,500 to it, the largest being RUSSELL H & MAXINE E SMITH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($4,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $192k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $223k
What Great Lakes Bay Regional Alliance does
Mission
To champion and support regional collaboration and initiatives that help grow the great lakes bay region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The purpose of the organization is to build stronger, more vibrant communities with the goal to attract investors, business and industry, and skilled workers and visitors. The great lakes bay region is a collaboration of the midland, saginaw, bay, and isabella counties. The alliance has the following councils that all work toward the goals that will improve the quality of life and economic vitality and the quality of life in the great lakes bay region: advocacy council economic development council
$30,450 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $30,450.
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 2017 to 2018, from $450k to $335k (−25%).
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.
99% of GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Heather Gallegos
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $500.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest McLaren Bay Region). These are real filings, and they are not money GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL ALLIANCE raised.
From the IRS filings of GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL ALLIANCE’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 BAY REGIONAL ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 90% · 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
100% of GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 BAY REGIONAL ALLIANCE's revenue fell 42% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL 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
14% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Great Lakes Bay Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL ALLIANCE?
- GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL ALLIANCE (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,500 to it, the largest being RUSSELL H & MAXINE E SMITH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($4,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $8,500 in grants to GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL ALLIANCE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL ALLIANCE?
- RUSSELL H & MAXINE E SMITH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL 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.
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 3 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