Michigan · Nonprofit
PAW PAW LAKE FOUNDATION
PAW PAW LAKE FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $316,591 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($228,250). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
PAW PAW LAKE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,156 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,156 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Dupage Community Foundationshared funders
- Trout Unlimited Incportfolio match
- Pennsylvania Trout Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $3k → $3k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 PAW PAW LAKE FOUNDATION’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
PAW PAW LAKE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 PAW PAW LAKE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 66% · 2022 66% · 2023 95% — 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
84% of PAW PAW LAKE FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $52k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $264k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Dupage Community Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 12 organizations that share your funders
- Trout Unlimited Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Trout Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rosso Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Pennsylvania Watershedsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fishamerica Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Defenders of Wildlifeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Wild Turkey Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John C Bock Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rangeland Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like PAW PAW LAKE FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PAW PAW LAKE FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PAW PAW LAKE FOUNDATION?
- PAW PAW LAKE FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $316,591 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($228,250). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PAW PAW LAKE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $316,591 in grants to PAW PAW LAKE FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAW PAW LAKE FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $228,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAW PAW LAKE FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing