Great Lakes Energy

Overview

Mission

Great Lakes Energy connects its member-consumers to the resources they depend on and provides energy solutions across western and northern Michigan. Great Lakes Energy is committed to electrical safety. We follow industry standards and work hard to provide safe working conditions and ample safety training for employees. Our safety culture emphasizes education, awareness, accountability and respect at all times and plays a key role in Great Lakes Energy’s ability to look out for its members. Emergency Situations. GLE uses “cookies,” which are small text files that a website can place on your computer’s hard drive in order, for example, to collect information about your activities on the site, such as items you place in an online “shopping cart.” The cookie transmits this information back to the website’s computer. If you want to know when this happens or prevent it from happening, you...

Operating model

Revenue model

Other-operating. 99% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.

Distribution model

Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
• Transparency & Controls: 78
• Accountability: 95
• Sustainability: 51
• Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
• Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
• Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
• Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
• Leadership: top reported pay $751K · 19 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
• Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.7M reported
• Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
• Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay and related organizations
• Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 19 filed money-flow records
• Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
• Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
• People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
• Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

• Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
• High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
• High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.