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LAKE ERIE FOUNDATION

EIN 81-3042803 MARBLEHEAD, OH

Largest nonprofits in Ohio

Revenue 2024
$331,419
Expenses 2024
$255,724

Program services were 77.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C32
Classification
1000
Street
236 WALNUT AVE

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).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

CREATE AND MAINTAIN A HEALTHY LAKE ERIE NOW AND FOREVER AS DEFINED BY DRINKABLE WATER, RECREATIONAL CONTACT AND EDIBLE FISH.

  • LAKE ERIE'S WESTERN BASIN HAS PROBLEMS WITH HARMFUL ALGAE BLOOM AND THE CENTRAL BASIN FREQUENTLY HAS A DEAD ZONE. WE ARE COMMITTED TO FOCUS ATTENTION AND ADVOCATE FOR THE RESOURCES NECESSARY TO ADDRESS THESE PROBLEMS, ASSESS WATER QUALITY AT PUBLIC DRINKING WATER INTAKES, AND WORK TOWARDS ELIMINATING BEACH ADVISORIES FOR HARMFUL ALGAE AND BACTERIA.

    Expenses $198,963

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Lee Alexakos

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ken Alvey

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Matthew V Fisher

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Larry Fletcher

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Rick Graham

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Peter Huston

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Paul Klein

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Lipaj

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Leonard Partin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chris Winslow PhD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • James Stouffer

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Ron Wyss

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $331,419
    Expenses
    $255,724
    Contributions
    $318,843
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $262,126
    Expenses
    $219,567
    Contributions
    $261,258
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $944,951
    Expenses
    $229,972
    Contributions
    $319,209
    Grants paid
    $0

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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $206,924
    Expenses
    $151,610
    Assets (EOY)
    $262,190
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $166,712
    Expenses
    $157,287
    Assets (EOY)
    $195,712
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $253,637
    Expenses
    $201,156
    Assets (EOY)
    $178,562
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $159,061
    Expenses
    $142,769
    Assets (EOY)
    $125,378
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $185,565
    Expenses
    $84,706
    Assets (EOY)
    $112,083

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.