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RED CEDAR LAKES ASSOCIATION INC

RED CEDAR LAKES ASSOCIATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being RICHARD BURY FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$35k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$5k
Net assets
$133k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Red Cedar Lakes Association Inc does

Mission

To preserve, protect and improve red cedar, balsam, hemlock, bass and mud lakes, their watershed and ecosystem.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Water quality & safety

    $8,556 spent
    12% of program spending
  2. Invasive species

    $61,706 spent
    88% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $70,262.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($122k) Expenses 100 ($89k) Net assets 100 ($118k)2021 Revenue 64 ($79k) Expenses 51 ($46k) Net assets 116 ($137k)2022 Revenue 44 ($53k) Expenses 37 ($33k) Net assets 133 ($157k)2023 Revenue 38 ($46k) Expenses 52 ($47k) Net assets 133 ($156k)2024 Revenue 76 ($93k) Expenses 74 ($66k) Net assets 155 ($183k)2025 Revenue 29 ($35k) Expenses 96 ($85k) Net assets 113 ($133k)
201920212022202320242025
Revenue (29)Expenses (96)Net assets (113)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 2024 to 2025, from $183k to $133k (−27%).

$118k
$137k
$157k
$156k
$183k
$133k
201920212022202320242025
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.

2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

78% of RED CEDAR LAKES ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,989 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$33k
’19
$33k
’21
$20k
’22
−$452
’23
$27k
’24
−$50k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of RED CEDAR LAKES ASSOCIATION 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

RED CEDAR LAKES ASSOCIATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 1 state in all.

MN

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

Against its field

RED CEDAR LAKES ASSOCIATION INC's revenue fell 71% between 2019 and 2025.

Operating margin−141% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−19% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds RED CEDAR LAKES ASSOCIATION INC?
RED CEDAR LAKES ASSOCIATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being RICHARD BURY FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RED CEDAR LAKES ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to RED CEDAR LAKES ASSOCIATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of RED CEDAR LAKES ASSOCIATION INC?
RICHARD BURY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RED CEDAR LAKES ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2019–2025), 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