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GREAT LAKES INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE

GREAT LAKES INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,680,586 to it, the largest being National Collegiate Athletic Association ($3,680,586). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.4M
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$3.7M
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 50%

Against its field

GREAT LAKES INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE's revenue grew 41% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,580 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($969k) Expenses 100 ($784k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 104 ($1.0M) Expenses 112 ($880k) Net assets 113 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 82 ($796k) Expenses 103 ($806k) Net assets 113 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 84 ($812k) Expenses 85 ($670k) Net assets 126 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 83 ($803k) Expenses 98 ($767k) Net assets 134 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 99 ($956k) Expenses 90 ($704k) Net assets 139 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 129 ($1.2M) Expenses 171 ($1.3M) Net assets 131 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 133 ($1.3M) Expenses 146 ($1.1M) Net assets 150 ($1.6M)2025 Revenue 141 ($1.4M) Expenses 187 ($1.5M) Net assets 159 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (141)Expenses (187)Net assets (159)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 5% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

31% of GREAT LAKES INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,898 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$185k
’17
$131k
’18
−$10k
’19
$142k
’20
$36k
’21
$252k
’22
−$91k
’23
$146k
’24
−$101k
’25
3.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $451k → $410k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of GREAT LAKES INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

GREAT LAKES INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state in all.

IN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

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.

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 INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE

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

Great Lakes Bay Regional Alliance84%Great Lakes Bay Region Quality of Life Council81%Discovery Center Great Lakes81%Great Lakes Colleges Association Inc80%Greater Lansing Youth for Christ80%Lakeshore Nonprofit Alliance79%Northern Great Lakes Initiatives79%Great Lakes Safety Training Center79%

Nationally

Great Lakes Community Action Partnership86%Great Lakes Valley Conference Inc84%Great Lakes Bay Regional Alliance84%Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council83%Great Midwest Athletic Conference Inc83%Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference82%Gulf South Conference81%Alliance for the Great Lakes81%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREAT LAKES INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE: 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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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 INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE?
GREAT LAKES INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,680,586 to it, the largest being National Collegiate Athletic Association ($3,680,586). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GREAT LAKES INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,680,586 in grants to GREAT LAKES INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREAT LAKES INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE?
National Collegiate Athletic Association is the largest funder on record, with $3,680,586 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREAT LAKES INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing