Michigan · Nonprofit
MUSKEGON ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION SOCIETY
MUSKEGON ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION SOCIETY (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,867 to it, the largest being Muskegon Conservation Club ($43,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $48k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $93k
- Net assets
- $507k
What Muskegon Environmental Research & Education Society does
Mission
To support activites and projects that provide opportunities for the public to participate and observe environmental research and to provide environmental education opportunities for students in the general muskegon area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The outdoor education program hosted over 1,200 school children from over 10 different schools. The facility continues to be used for research, capturing, inspecting, and banding of dozens of bird species. We estimate that approximately 20,000 people visited the preserve for a variety of recreational purposes. The michigan environmental hall of fame held its annual awards banquet and honored several outstanding educators and organizations.
$41,407 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $41,407.
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 2021 to 2022, from $546k to $507k (−7%).
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.
93% of MUSKEGON ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $13k → $11k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 MUSKEGON ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION SOCIETY’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
MUSKEGON ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 MUSKEGON ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2022 99% · 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 MUSKEGON ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION SOCIETY's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k 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
MUSKEGON ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MUSKEGON ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION SOCIETY
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
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 MUSKEGON ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION SOCIETY: 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 MUSKEGON ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION SOCIETY?
- MUSKEGON ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION SOCIETY (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,867 to it, the largest being Muskegon Conservation Club ($43,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSKEGON ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $92,867 in grants to MUSKEGON ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION SOCIETY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSKEGON ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION SOCIETY?
- Muskegon Conservation Club is the largest funder on record, with $43,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSKEGON ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION SOCIETY 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 4 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