Michigan · Nonprofit
MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL
MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL (Michigan) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,352,530 to it, the largest being CHARLES STEWART MOTT FOUNDATION ($2,110,415). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 78
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $7.3M
What Michigan Enviromental Council does
Mission
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Clean plentiful water: mec works to protect surface water and ground water from toxins like mercury and pfas and contamination from inadequate municipal sewer systems, failing septic systems, agricultural runoff, and industrial discharges. They promote conservation and the protection of vital wetlands across the state. Mec works to defend our inland seas from harmful invasive species. And they advocate for policies that ensure every michigander has access to clean, affordable drinking water.
$649,839 spentof which $38,879 as grants19% of program spendingCleaner energy:mec works to spur investment in energy efficiency and locally produced renewable power that will create jobs and curb the negative health, climate and economic impacts caused by our dependence on imported fossil fuels. Mec advocates for the retirement of polluting, expensive coal and fossil fuel power plants to ensure the rapid reduction of harmful greenhouse gas emissions. In the auto industry, mec supports policies and practices that will move michigan's largest industry to the forefront in the design, manufacture and sales of attractive, practical electric and highly fuel-efficient vehicles.
$458,838 spentof which $38,879 as grants13% of program spendingBuilding the movement:mec is the heart of michigan's environmental movement, and they help to build its size, capacity, and efficacy by convening nonprofit organizations, helping them to understand their role in developing public policy, and providing them professional development opportunities. One of their key areas of work is measuring and improving the racial and gender diversity of the boards and staffs of environmental nonprofits.
$523,020 spentof which $38,879 as grants15% of program spendingDetroit:mec believes that michigan's largest city should also be its greenest and most sustainable and that its residents and leaders should be helping shape the environmental agenda for the state. They work to ensure that detroit's neighborhoods, and in particular, the denby neighborhood, have access to clean and safe recreational opportunities. Mec works to expand recycling and compost services for residents. And they help establish and implement the policy framework for environmental sustainability throughout the city. Healthy people: mec is fighting to reduce exposures to lead and other dangerous substances; curb asthma-inducing air pollution; keep air and water pollution sources away from schools, day care centers and homes; and improve access to healthful foods and recreational opportunities as part of a broader strategy to address childhood obesity in michigan. They maintain a statewide network of partners working on environmental health issues at the grassroots, local, state, federal, and academic levels, using their insights, experience, and reach to shape and build support for protective policies. Sustainable communities: mec calls for re-investment in michigan's urban…
$1,818,936 spentof which $242,556 as grants$78,144 earned by the program53% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,450,633.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $4.6M to $6.5M (+42%).
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 10% · 2021 9% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Melissa Desimione
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $839k → $3.3M.
19 of 78 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 funders by total. 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
MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
51% 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 MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 39% · 2019 46% · 2020 21% · 2021 21% · 2022 17% · 2023 15% — 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
46% of MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,187 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Michigan Environmental Council · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL: 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 MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL?
- MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL (Michigan) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,352,530 to it, the largest being CHARLES STEWART MOTT FOUNDATION ($2,110,415). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 78 organizations giving $14,352,530 in grants to MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL?
- CHARLES STEWART MOTT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,110,415 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL 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 78 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing