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MICHIGAN BROWN TROUT FESTIVAL INC

MICHIGAN BROWN TROUT FESTIVAL INC (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,300 to it, the largest being FIRST FEDERAL OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN LEGACY FOUNDATION ($3,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$68k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$3k
Net assets
$59k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 50%
01What it does

What Michigan Brown Trout Festival Inc does

Mission

To promote and sponsor the sport of brown trout fishing in michigan, including the promotion and supervision of competition and other activities which will serve to promote the sport.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. First accomplishment distribution of funds donated to non-profit organizations: vfw post 2496, exchange club, optimist club, thunder bay walleye club, lincoln chapter 184, kiwanis club of alpena

    $17,870 spentof which $17,870 as grants
    91% of program spending
  2. Thunder bay brown trout fish planting

    $1,667 spentof which $1,667 as grants
    9% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,537.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($66k) Expenses 100 ($45k) Net assets 100 ($39k)2018 Revenue 67 ($44k) Expenses 121 ($55k) Net assets 72 ($28k)2019 Revenue 67 ($44k) Expenses 98 ($45k) Net assets 71 ($28k)2020 Revenue 6 ($4k) Expenses 27 ($12k) Net assets 50 ($20k)2021 Revenue 52 ($34k) Expenses 64 ($29k) Net assets 63 ($24k)2022 Revenue 55 ($36k) Expenses 76 ($35k) Net assets 66 ($26k)2023 Revenue 32 ($21k) Expenses 50 ($23k) Net assets 62 ($24k)2024 Revenue 104 ($68k) Expenses 74 ($34k) Net assets 151 ($59k)
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Revenue (104)Expenses (74)Net assets (151)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $24k to $59k (+143%).

$39k
$28k
$28k
$20k
$25k
$26k
$24k
$59k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
’17
−$11k
’18
−$389
’19
−$8k
’20
$5k
’21
$1k
’22
−$1k
’23
$35k
’24
18
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $300 → $2k.

From the IRS filings of MICHIGAN BROWN TROUT FESTIVAL 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.

Where its funders are

100% of MICHIGAN BROWN TROUT FESTIVAL INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI

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

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’18
’20
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like MICHIGAN BROWN TROUT FESTIVAL 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 Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

58% of spending goes to programs.

Program 58%Management 42%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds MICHIGAN BROWN TROUT FESTIVAL INC?
MICHIGAN BROWN TROUT FESTIVAL INC (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,300 to it, the largest being FIRST FEDERAL OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN LEGACY FOUNDATION ($3,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MICHIGAN BROWN TROUT FESTIVAL INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,300 in grants to MICHIGAN BROWN TROUT FESTIVAL INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MICHIGAN BROWN TROUT FESTIVAL INC?
FIRST FEDERAL OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN LEGACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MICHIGAN BROWN TROUT FESTIVAL INC 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 1 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