UPPER PENINSULA ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

2000

Street

PO BOX 673

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Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

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• FRIENDS OF THE LAND OF KEWEENAW

  EIN 38-2924711

Mission and programs · 2025

• Community conservation grants. Grant program awards funds to land conservancies and other qualified organizations to establish, expand, or otherwise support permanent protection of UP lands and waters through fee-simple acquisitions, conservation easements, and other legal means, or to carry on other environmental projects (e.g., native plant restoration) that benefit the UP environment and communities. These grants benefit a large number of UP residents and others in the general public.

  Expenses $8,000 · Grants $8,000 · Revenue $120

• Environmental Education Grants. Competitive grant program awards funds for environmental education projects to K-12 and post-secondary schools and universities. Benefits over 100 students annually.

  Expenses $2,000 · Grants $2,000 · Revenue $185

• Recurring publications. Occasional UPEC newsletters, livestream programs, website, and social media platforms provide timely information on UP environmental issues and UPEC activities. Benefits over 200 UPEC members + additional non-member readers/listeners.

  Expenses $1,115

• Form 990, Part III, Line 4d - Other program services. (a) Mining Action Group. Acts as environmental watchdog for existing and potential mines in the UP. Benefits over 200 UPEC members + members of general public.

  Expenses $2,700 · Revenue $1,310

• Celebrate the UP! Annual event provides educational sessions and environmentally themed creative activities (art, music, etc.) to encourage valuation of the UP and its environment. Benefits over 200 attendees, on average, annually. 2022 event was held virtually.

  Expenses $937 · Revenue $50

• Protect the Porkies public education campaign. UPEC assumed sponsorship and oversight of the grassroots Protect the Porkies campaign to stop a proposed mine adjacent to Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in the western Upper Peninsula. The campaign educates the public about the environmental hazards associated with the proposed mine.

  Expenses $20,959 · Revenue $36,000

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.

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

  $63,308

  Expenses

  $52,290

  Contributions

  $48,557

  Grants paid

  $10,000

• 2024

  Revenue

  $45,351

  Expenses

  $67,209

  Contributions

  $31,600

  Grants paid

  $38,500

• 2023

  Revenue

  $33,829

  Expenses

  $51,033

  Contributions

  $20,067

  Grants paid

  $20,998

• 2022

  Revenue

  $19,519

  Expenses

  $62,583

  Contributions

  $19,519

  Grants paid

  $33,200

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

  $149,601

  Expenses

  $63,835

  Assets (EOY)

  $598,578

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $58,948

  Expenses

  $57,069

  Assets (EOY)

  $512,812

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2017

Tax period

1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017

Principal officer

Horst Schmidt

Mailing address

PO Box 673Houghton MI 49931

Website

upenvironment.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 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

• Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve

  $10,000

  2022 · Support for legal reclassification of land in preserve.

• Northwoods Alliance Inc

  $10,000

  2022 · Creation of publicly accessible Community Forest.

• Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve

  $10,000

  2024 · Funding to help remove 150 acres of the Yellow Dog River Community Forest from commercial forest designation (CF), thus eliminating the requirement to harvest trees.

• Swedetown Trails Club

  $8,000

  2025 · This project is to control Glossy Buckthorn at the Swedetown Recreation Area in Calumet using grazing goats. Glossy Buckthorn (Rhomnus frangula) is an invasive shrub that can rapidly spread to fill the understory of a forested area. Dense thickets of buckthorn inhibit hardwood regeneration and can also shade out native understory vegetation that is needed as food for wildlife and insects.

• Upper Peninsula Land Conservancy

  $7,000

  2023 · Support for improved access to Dead River Community Forest.

• Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior

  $7,000

  2024 · Establish a native plant garden and outdoor classroom at the Big Bay Pathway trailhead in Powell Township, Marquette County, Michigan.

• Coalition to Save the Menominee River Inc

  $6,000

  2022 · Support for preservation of Menominee River.

• Real People Media

  $6,000

  2022 · Restoration of former industrial site to native plants garden.

• Upper Peninsula Land Conservancy

  $6,000

  2024 · Reroute the trail within the wet lowland areas of Tory's Woods Nature Preserve (Alger County, Michigan) and build an elevated boardwalk to alleviate the risk of harmful human impact to the water resources and sensitive flora.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL

  $15,000

  2023 · PARTNER IN PROJECT TO RAISE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IN EPA CLEANUP WORK

• MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL

  $10,000

  2024 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

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