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.
Against its field
GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL ALLIANCE's revenue fell 42% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,946 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- United Way of Bay Countyshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Frances Goll Mills Fundshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Kantzler Foundationshared funderslocal
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.
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
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.
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 3 funders put you under-funded among the 163 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Bay Countyshared funderslocalportfolio matchMI · backs 7 organizations that share your funders · funds 16 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Frances Goll Mills Fundshared funderslocalportfolio matchOH · backs 12 organizations that share your funders · funds 21 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Kantzler Foundationshared funderslocalMI · backs 22 organizations that share your funders · funds 23 organizations near you
- Richard Barton Law Memorial Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Herrington-Fitch Family Foundation Inc C/O Leslie Leeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jim and Diana Huckle Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bellin Memorial Hospital Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beusse & Porter Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elizabeth B and Philip J Hendrickson Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bernard E and Alyce G Dahlin Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bay Area Community Foundationshared funderslocalMI · backs 41 organizations that share your funders · funds 116 organizations near you
- Saginaw Community Foundationshared funderslocalMI · backs 23 organizations that share your funders · funds 141 organizations near you
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.
Organizations like GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL ALLIANCE
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
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL 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 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 3funders 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