- Revenue 2025
- $1,425,000
- Expenses 2025
- $1,314,354
Program services were 97.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- C12
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 247 WEST FRESHWATER WAY STE 542
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a deep, positive impact on the health of Lake Michigan and on the communities of Wisconsin, now and into the future.
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Our programs supported projects to enhance the health of Lake Michigan and to promote nature-based solutions to climate change that improve water quality in the Lake Michigan Basin.
Expenses $1,285,846 · Grants $1,250,000
As filed on the 2025 return.
Officers and directors · 2025
As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Steve Galarneau
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Mark Resten
Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jeff Jaeckels
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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David Lee
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Emily Green
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Tom Hanrahan
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2025
- Revenue
- $1,425,000
- Expenses
- $1,314,354
- Contributions
- $1,425,000
- Grants paid
- $1,250,000
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2024
- Revenue
- $425,000
- Expenses
- $1,146,706
- Contributions
- $425,000
- Grants paid
- $1,100,000
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2023
- Revenue
- $1,538,874
- Expenses
- $780,246
- Contributions
- $1,538,874
- Grants paid
- $775,000
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2022
- Tax period
- 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022
- Principal officer
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David M Lee
- Mailing address
- 247 West Freshwater WayMilwaukee WI 53204
- Website
- https://fundforlakemichigan.org/
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.
Grants made
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$1,250,000
2025 Grants were made to the Windward Fund to support the Daybreak Fund, including projects that address, reduce and mitigate water quality impacts in Lake Michigan, and to provide staff support for the Fund for Lake Michigan to facilitate the FFLM's operations and advance its mission.
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$1,100,000
2024 Grants were made to the Windward Fund to support the Daybreak Fund, including projects that address, reduce and mitigate water quality impacts in Lake Michigan, and to provide staff support for the Fund for Lake Michigan to facilitate the FFLM's operations and advance its mission.
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$775,000
2023 Grants were made to the Windward Fund to support the Daybreak Fund, including projects that address, reduce and mitigate water quality impacts in Lake Michigan, and to provide staff support for the Fund for Lake Michigan to facilitate the FFLM's operations and advance its mission.
Grants received
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GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC
$1,500,000
2023 ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT
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GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC
$425,000
2024 THE FFLM CONTRIBUTION TO THE DAYBREAK FUND
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$38,874
2023 ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.