Ohio · Nonprofit
LAKE ERIE ISLANDS NATURE AND WILDLIFE CENTER
LAKE ERIE ISLANDS NATURE AND WILDLIFE CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $151,230 to it, the largest being CRL David Foundation ($72,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $350k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $151k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Lake Erie Islands Nature and Wildlife Center does
Mission
Strenghten the foundations of our organization while attaining financial sustainability through diversification, engagement, and expansion of our porgrams, displays, and outreach to enhance our ability to provide education and promote conservation on the lake erie islands.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Operate museum with items and exhibits of local island nature. Also maintain woods and examples of natural ecosystems. Provide a range of activities from children's programs to road scholar events, tours and lectures.
$296,054 spent$205,962 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $296,054.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $957k to $1.1M (+12%).
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: 2020 15% · 2021 14% · 2022 3% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of LAKE ERIE ISLANDS NATURE AND WILDLIFE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Amy Alford
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $15k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 LAKE ERIE ISLANDS NATURE AND WILDLIFE CENTER’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
LAKE ERIE ISLANDS NATURE AND WILDLIFE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 LAKE ERIE ISLANDS NATURE AND WILDLIFE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 60% · 2022 59% · 2023 99% — 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 LAKE ERIE ISLANDS NATURE AND WILDLIFE CENTER's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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.
Against its field
LAKE ERIE ISLANDS NATURE AND WILDLIFE CENTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LAKE ERIE ISLANDS NATURE AND WILDLIFE CENTER
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 LAKE ERIE ISLANDS NATURE AND WILDLIFE CENTER: 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 LAKE ERIE ISLANDS NATURE AND WILDLIFE CENTER?
- LAKE ERIE ISLANDS NATURE AND WILDLIFE CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $151,230 to it, the largest being CRL David Foundation ($72,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAKE ERIE ISLANDS NATURE AND WILDLIFE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $151,230 in grants to LAKE ERIE ISLANDS NATURE AND WILDLIFE CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKE ERIE ISLANDS NATURE AND WILDLIFE CENTER?
- CRL David Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $72,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKE ERIE ISLANDS NATURE AND WILDLIFE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 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