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Michigan Recycling Coalition

Michigan Recycling Coalition (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,244 to it, the largest being AMERICAN BEVERAGE FOUNDATION FOR A HEALTHY AMERICA ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$809k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$36k
Net assets
$608k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Michigan Recycling Coalition does

Mission

To foster effective resource use in Michigan by developing, supporting and educating a coalition of business, government, nonprofit & individual members working toward the common goals

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Education of the public about recycling and promotion of recycling programs to industries, municipalities and individuals through conference, workshops and newsletters.

    $624,071 spent$240,194 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $624,071.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($288k) Expenses 100 ($257k) Net assets 100 ($195k)2018 Revenue 95 ($274k) Expenses 110 ($282k) Net assets 96 ($187k)2019 Revenue 106 ($304k) Expenses 106 ($272k) Net assets 113 ($219k)2020 Revenue 86 ($247k) Expenses 96 ($248k) Net assets 125 ($244k)2021 Revenue 127 ($365k) Expenses 113 ($290k) Net assets 188 ($366k)2022 Revenue 207 ($597k) Expenses 180 ($462k) Net assets 248 ($483k)2023 Revenue 181 ($520k) Expenses 200 ($515k) Net assets 256 ($498k)2024 Revenue 182 ($525k) Expenses 211 ($541k) Net assets 261 ($508k)2025 Revenue 281 ($809k) Expenses 276 ($709k) Net assets 312 ($608k)
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Revenue (281)Expenses (276)Net assets (312)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $496k to $655k (+32%).

$218k
$216k
$252k
$344k
$496k
$655k
$639k
$662k
$714k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 27% · 2023 33% · 2024 22% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

68% of Michigan Recycling Coalition’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 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.

$31k
’17
−$8k
’18
$32k
’19
−$360
’20
$74k
’21
$135k
’22
$5k
’23
−$16k
’24
$100k
’25
7.7
months of
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

Kerrin O'Brien

Executive Director

Board chair

Nick Carlson

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed161616161616161616
Joined·+6+5+4+2+0+3+0+5
No longer listed·65420305
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $31k → $77.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 Recycling Coalition’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

Michigan Recycling Coalition leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

31% 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 Recycling Coalition.

69%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 82% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

Michigan Recycling Coalition draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state in all.

DC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Michigan Recycling Coalition runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve7.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding Michigan Recycling Coalition receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.

Federal$1.9M
grants $1.9Mcontracts $0
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24
Top agencies
  • Environmental Protection Agency$1.9M

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 Michigan Recycling Coalition

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

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 10%Fundraising 2%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

MI

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Questions and answers

Who funds Michigan Recycling Coalition?
Michigan Recycling Coalition (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,244 to it, the largest being AMERICAN BEVERAGE FOUNDATION FOR A HEALTHY AMERICA ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Michigan Recycling Coalition have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $36,244 in grants to Michigan Recycling Coalition, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Michigan Recycling Coalition?
AMERICAN BEVERAGE FOUNDATION FOR A HEALTHY AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Michigan Recycling Coalition 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.

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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 3 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