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GREAT LAKES FISHERY TRUST INC

EIN 38-3331471 LANSING, MI

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Revenue 2024
$4,216,119
Expenses 2024
$3,966,905

Program services were 97.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D123
Classification
1000
Street
230 NORTH WASHINGTON SQUARE STE 3

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 · 2024

Mission

PROVIDE FUNDING TO ENHANCE, PROTECT, AND REHABILITATE GREAT LAKES FISHERY RESOURCES. THE ORGANIZATION WILL MANAGE ITS RESOURCES TO COMPENSATE FOR LOST USE AND ENJOYMENT OF THE LAKE MICHIGAN FISHERY RESULTING FROM OPERATION OF THE LUDINGTON PUMPED STORAGE PLANT.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROVIDING FUNDING TO ENHANCE, PROTECT, AND REHABILITATE GREAT LAKES FISHERY RESOURCES.

  • GREAT LAKES FISHERY TRUST, INC. PURSUES IT'S MISSION THROUGH INVESTMENTS IN FOUR AREAS: ACCESS TO THE GREAT LAKES SHORE; RESEASRCH TO CREATE A MORE RESILIENT AND STABLE FISH COMMUNITY AND INCREASE SUSTAINABLE VALUE; HABITAT TO PROTECT, RESTORE, AND STABILIZE IMPORTANT FISH HABITATS; AND STEWARDSHIP TO INCREASE AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ECOLOGY OF THE GREAT LAKES.

    Expenses $3,870,071 · Grants $3,314,439 · Revenue $3,655,868

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.

  • Dan Bock

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Scott Hicks

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Doug Craven

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Frank Beaver

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amy Trotter

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brian Napont

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rebecca Meuninck

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Scott Bowen

    CHAIR (ENDED 8/12/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Randall Claramunt

    CHAIR (BEGAN 8/13/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jonathon Beard

    TRUST MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    13

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
    $4,216,119
    Expenses
    $3,966,905
    Contributions
    $10,000
    Grants paid
    $3,314,439
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,258,751
    Expenses
    $2,714,878
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $2,166,780
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,056,621
    Expenses
    $2,662,255
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $2,150,186

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
    $3,568,990
    Expenses
    $1,904,944
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,327,543

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,044,887
    Expenses
    $2,841,565
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,313,254

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,420,931
    Expenses
    $2,503,540
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,862,186

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,549,403
    Expenses
    $3,268,329
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,432,858

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,461,548
    Expenses
    $3,246,866
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,406,749

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,040,494
    Expenses
    $2,887,293
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,047,202

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,751,383
    Expenses
    $5,076,115
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,798,882

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

  • MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES

    $750,000

    2024 RENOVATE SNUG HARBOR SHORELINE FISHING SITE AT MUSKEGON STATE PARK

  • CARLETON UNIVERSITY

    $423,340

    2024 CHARACTERIZE NEEDS, MOTIVATION AND VALUES OF FISHERMAN AND CHARACTERISTICS THE RISK, BENEFITS AND BARRIERS FACED AROUND LAKE MICHIGAN

  • THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR SUNY AT BROCKPORT

    $403,982

    2024 PROJECT TO EVALUATE WHETHER THIAMINE DEFICIENCY COULD AFFECT LAKE WHITEFISH RECRUITMENT IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION

  • PERE MARQUETTE CHARTER TOWNSHIP

    $317,400

    2022

  • CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE

    $315,000

    2024 CONSTRUCTION OF THREE BRIDGES AND INSTALL HABITAT STRUCTURES ON THE CRYSTAL RIVER IN LEELANAU COUNTY

  • UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME

    $313,108

    2022

  • MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION

    $276,837

    2024 TEACHING GREAT LAKES LITERACY: CONNECTING SCIENTISTS, EDUCATORS, AND YOUTH THROUGH RESEARCH AND DATA EXPLORATIONS

  • LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY

    $259,048

    2023 MORE THAN WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE: INVENTORY AND VIABILITY ASSESSMENT OF FISH SPAWNING AND NURSERY HABITATS IN THE STRAITS OF MACKINAC

  • GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUND

    $250,000

    2022

  • LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY BANDS OF ODAWA INDIANS

    $250,000

    2024 REPLACE MESHENAHMA RESEARCH VESSEL

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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 SOUNK.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.