Michigan · Nonprofit
TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC
TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC (Michigan) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,084,945 to it, the largest being EDMUND F AND VIRGINIA B BALL FOUNDATION INC ($1,275,000). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $6.1M
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What Traverse Area Recreation & Transportation Trails Inc does
Mission
To bring trails to life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During the year tart advanced major capital and programmatic initiatives to expand and strengthen the regional trail network. Significant expenses supported the acquisition of key properties to secure public access and long-term trail infrastructure, including property in torch lake township, antrim county, to establish a critical trailhead, and property in leelanau county along the leelanau trail to serve as a trailhead and maintenance hub with acquisition costs of $526,423. Tart also made substantial progress on the three-mile trail project through planning, engineering, and partnership coordination, positioning the project for future implementation. Looking ahead, tart will continue investing in trail construction and activation of newly acquired properties to expand access and community connection.
$2,003,640 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,003,640.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $4.6M to $6.6M (+45%).
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: 2019 7% · 2020 15% · 2021 20% · 2022 41% · 2023 7% · 2024 7% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Julie Clark
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $257k → $1.1M.
13 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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
TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
29% 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 TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 26% · 2019 26% · 2020 18% · 2021 31% · 2022 28% · 2023 23% — 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.
How long its funders stay
61% of TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
55% of TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Government funding TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $900k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$900k
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 TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC: 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 TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC?
- TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC (Michigan) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,084,945 to it, the largest being EDMUND F AND VIRGINIA B BALL FOUNDATION INC ($1,275,000). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $6,084,945 in grants to TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC?
- EDMUND F AND VIRGINIA B BALL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,275,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC 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 62 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