Michigan · Nonprofit
GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL TRAIL
GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL TRAIL (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $272,500 to it, the largest being BAY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($152,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL TRAIL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,243 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,243 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Saginaw Community Foundationshared funderslocal
- Weinlander Fitzhugh Foundation Incportfolio match
- The Julius H and Barbara B Beers Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
2% of GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL TRAIL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $215k → $3k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 BAY REGIONAL TRAIL’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 TRAIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% 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 GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL TRAIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 71% · 2020 100% · 2021 94% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
56% of GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL TRAIL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $120k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $153k 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.
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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Saginaw Community Foundationshared funderslocalMI · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · funds 128 organizations near you
- Weinlander Fitzhugh Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Julius H and Barbara B Beers Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John and Melissa Besse Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rails to Trails Conservancyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 1923 Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jim and Diana Huckle Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Partnership for the National Trails System Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rotary Charities of Traverse Cityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oleson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Bay Countyshared fundersMI · backs 14 organizations that share your funders
- Credit Unions Chartered in the State of Michigan Frankenmuth Credit UnionlocalMI · funds 20 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 TRAIL
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 BAY REGIONAL TRAIL: 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 GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL TRAIL?
- GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL TRAIL (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $272,500 to it, the largest being BAY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($152,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL TRAIL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $272,500 in grants to GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL TRAIL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL TRAIL?
- BAY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $152,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL TRAIL 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 5funders 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