Michigan · Nonprofit
GREAT LAKES CHILDRENS FOUNDATION
GREAT LAKES CHILDRENS FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $17 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($17). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
GREAT LAKES CHILDRENS FOUNDATION's revenue fell 84% between 2017 and 2019.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,858 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2019
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.
- Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memoriallocal
- Cleveland Guardians Charities Incportfolio match
- Pirates Charitiesportfolio 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.
100% of GREAT LAKES CHILDRENS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $11 → $6.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CHILDRENS FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of GREAT LAKES CHILDRENS FOUNDATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
- Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer MemoriallocalMI · funds 69 organizations near you
- Cleveland Guardians Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pirates Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pitch in for Baseball and Softballportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sacramento Consolidated Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Twins Community Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clearwater for Youth Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- MLB-MLBPA Youth Development Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- USA Football Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chobani Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dick's Sporting Goods Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thunderbird Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 CHILDRENS FOUNDATION
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.
Public support
100%
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 GREAT LAKES CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: 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 CHILDRENS FOUNDATION?
- GREAT LAKES CHILDRENS FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $17 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($17). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GREAT LAKES CHILDRENS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $17 in grants to GREAT LAKES CHILDRENS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT LAKES CHILDRENS FOUNDATION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $17 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT LAKES CHILDRENS FOUNDATION 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 1funders 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