Wisconsin · Nonprofit
GREAT LAKES INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL INC
GREAT LAKES INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,519,474 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,000,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $9.8M
What Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council Inc does
Mission
Great lakes inter-tribal council's mission is to enhance the quality of life for all native people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Epidemiology: assist tribal communities with efforts to improve their health through education and technical assistance in the areas of hiv, hepatitis, vaccinations, and opioid use/addition. This department works with 34 tribes across the states of wisconsin, minnesota, and michigan and the chicago area.
$6,527,554 spent$164,937 earned by the program48% of program spendingFamily health: assist families, who reside on or within the boundaries of their tribe, to make better and/or healthy life choices. This includes ways to quit commercial tobacco, preventing domestic violence, promoting child safety, and the overall help for the family to be self-sufficient.
$3,085,661 spent23% of program spendingVocational rehabilitation: assist consumers/clients, who are native american with a disability and reside within the boundaries of the service area, to be self-sufficient in all areas of life. This can include furthering education, gaining and/or maintaining employment, and starting their own small business.
$1,789,579 spent13% of program spendingAging and disability: assist tribal members who are 18 years of age and older, who have a physical, mental, or developmental disability, obtain benefits such as ssi, ssdi, medicaid, medicare, food share, and/or veteran benefits. Recruit tribal elders as volunteers to act as mentors or companions to youth and other elders.
$1,601,499 spent12% of program spendingEconomic development: assist tribal members with starting a small business by helping them gain understanding of what is involved in the process. This can include making the business proposal and/or business plan to present to prospective investors on how to take care of the business financials. Also assist in updating the data for the comprehensive economic development strategy (ceds) report. Data is collected on current and future projects by having outreach activities based on the tribe's vision, goals, and objectives.
$471,416 spent$98,933 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,475,709.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $8.7M to $24M (+172%).
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: 2017 96% · 2018 98% · 2019 96% · 2020 99% · 2021 95% · 2022 94% · 2023 91% · 2024 81% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Bryan Bainbridge
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $4k → $976k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL 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 INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 90% · 2020 84% · 2021 50% · 2022 89% · 2023 61% — 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
50% of GREAT LAKES INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 70% 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
GREAT LAKES INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL INC draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M 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.
Government funding GREAT LAKES INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $83.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$59.9M
- Department of Education$14.0M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$7.4M
- Department of Commerce$1.3M
- Environmental Protection Agency$494k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GREAT LAKES INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREAT LAKES INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL INC?
- GREAT LAKES INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,519,474 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,000,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREAT LAKES INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $5,519,474 in grants to GREAT LAKES INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT LAKES INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT LAKES INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 10 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