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GREAT LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER

EIN 61-1557918 DETROIT, MI

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Revenue 2025
$736,074
Expenses 2025
$579,898

Program services were 89.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I80
Classification
1000
Street
4444 2ND 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

4 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 · 2025

Mission

TO ADDRESS A CRITICAL UNMET NEED IN MICHIGAN BY PROVIDING PUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL REPRESENTATION ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES TO COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS, ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS, GOVERNMENTS AND AGENCIES.

  • FOR OUR GRANT RELATED TO WATER QUALITY, WE CHALLENGED A NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM PERMIT ISSUED TO AN AQUALCULTURE FACILITY; ATTENDED CONFERENCES AND GAVE PRESENTATIONS ON AQUACULTURE, STORMWATER MANAGEMENT, AND WATER RESOURCE PROTECTION; COMMENTED ON RULEMAKINGS AND PERMITS RELATED TO WATER QUALITY.

  • FOR OUR GRANT RELATED TO AIR QUALITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH WORK, WE CHALLENGED A CLEAN AIR ACT PERMIT FOR A MAJOR SOURCE OF EMISSIONS; DEVELOPED A COMMUNITY EDUCATION PRESENTATION ON MICHIGAN'S PROCESS FOR REVISING ITS CLEAN AIR ACT-BASED STATE IMPLENTATION PLAN WITH REGARD TO SULFURE DIOXIDE AND OZONE NONATTAINMENT,

  • MISCELLANEOUS CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION AND MISC EXPENSES

    Expenses $520,749 · Grants $2,104

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Elizabeth Arnkoff

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Brian Foley

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Francis Grunow

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Robert Johns

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Mozhgon Rajaee

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Nick Schroeck

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $736,074
    Expenses
    $579,898
    Contributions
    $597,646
    Grants paid
    $2,104
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $607,205
    Expenses
    $539,571
    Contributions
    $538,913
    Grants paid
    $760
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $477,014
    Expenses
    $466,016
    Contributions
    $435,308
    Grants paid
    $1,500

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
    $319,563
    Expenses
    $293,762
    Assets (EOY)
    $350,950
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $342,212
    Expenses
    $267,918
    Assets (EOY)
    $325,149
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $276,495
    Expenses
    $214,262
    Assets (EOY)
    $250,855
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $322,181
    Expenses
    $184,376
    Assets (EOY)
    $188,622
  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $181,619
    Expenses
    $184,039
    Assets (EOY)
    $52,153
  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $132,059
    Expenses
    $143,189
    Assets (EOY)
    $54,573
  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $112,641
    Expenses
    $120,269
    Assets (EOY)
    $65,703
  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $139,101
    Expenses
    $128,783
    Assets (EOY)
    $73,331
  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $73,393
    Expenses
    $82,016
    Assets (EOY)
    $63,013
  • 2011 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $82,703
    Expenses
    $77,770
    Assets (EOY)
    $71,636

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2008

Tax period
1 January 2008 to 31 December 2008
Principal officer
Noah Hall
Mailing address
1402 Culver RoadAnn Arbor MI 48103
Website
www.greatlakeslaw.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

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 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.