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SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES
SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES (Ohio) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,490,895 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($1,350,574). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $7.8M
What Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center Dba Nature Center at Shaker Lakes does
Mission
The mission of the nature center at shaker lakes is to conserve a natural area, connect people with nature, and inspire environmental stewardship. To meet this mission, the nature center engages in natural resource management, public engagement efforts, and environmental education programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The nature center has long been a leader in providing excellent environmental education for individuals of all ages. Particularly well- known for its early childhood curricula for head starts and other preschools in the area, the nature center provides environmental education programs and camps for thousands of children per year in its classrooms as well as on its trails and habitats which serve as its outdoor classroom. The center regularly evaluates and modifies its curricula to ensure that it fully meets all ohio academic content standards. This year the center successfully completed its eleventh year of applied science for kids (ask) program for the cleveland metropolitan school district (cmsd), designed at the district's request to provide science education and unique hands-on field experiences for all preschool, kindergarten, and 1st grade students in the district. This year, the nature center served 3,720 children with the ask program. Ncsl's other partnership with cmsd, the environmental educator in residence (eer) program, serves 4 classrooms of 4th and 5th graders, each of which receives 20 classroom visits and 2 field trips throughout the year. Eer also serves 5…
$1,911,548 spent$278,939 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,911,548.
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 2018 to 2019, from $4.4M to $6.1M (+39%).
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: 2017 5% · 2018 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 10% · 2022 4% · 2023 16% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $68k → $397k.
11 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $965k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center Endowment Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES raised.
From the IRS filings of SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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
SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
49% 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 SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 33% · 2019 60% · 2020 26% · 2021 22% · 2022 26% · 2023 18% — 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
50% of SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
92% of SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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
- Shaker Lakes Nat Ctr Endow Found · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES?
- SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES (Ohio) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,490,895 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($1,350,574). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $4,490,895 in grants to SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES?
- THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,350,574 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHAKER LAKES REGIONAL NATURE CENTER DBA NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 74 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