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Community Foundation of Marquette County
Mission: to enrich the lives of all people in marquette county, by: connecting donors with community needs, building permanent funds for charitable giving, distributing scholarships and grants, and leading and collaborating to address community opportunities.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE COUNTY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 57 grants below total $2,968,714 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,045,536 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $76,822 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $153k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $372k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF MARQUETTE MI | $1,376,453 |
| SUPERIOR WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP | $212,135 |
| US NATIONAL SKI HALL OF FAME | $157,199 |
| OTHER LESS THAN 5000 | $117,544 |
| GREAT LAKES RECOVERY CENTER | $100,000 |
| WOMEN'S CENTER | $92,238 |
| ROOM AT THE INN | $91,000 |
| GROW AND LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH | $83,716 |
| SUPERIOR CONNECTIONS RECOVERY COMMU | $80,000 |
| JANZEN HOUSE | $80,000 |
| NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $53,450 |
| NEGAUNEE HIGH SCHOOL | $30,500 |
| UPAWS | $27,245 |
| BAY DE NOC COMMUNITY COLLEG | $25,250 |
| MARQUETTE COUNTY LAND BANK AUTHORIT | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $622k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SWSUPERIOR WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +92%
- GLGROW & LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +125% · 26% of their budget
- BCBAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP8× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- COCITY OF MARQUETTEone grant, 2019 · $95k
- NANORTHWOODS AIRLIFELINE LTDone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -44%
- HIHURON ISLAND LIGHTHOUSEone grant, 2021 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Creating healthy communities - together
To receive and administer funds to support the mission of mclaren northern michigan and support programs that enhance the well-being of the community.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
The msu chm upper peninsula education corporation is a collaborative medical education corporation funded by the michigan state university college of human medicine and up health system marquette, dedicated to the medical education of…
Creating healthy communities - together
Provide professional services for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and infectious disease and related conditions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 88 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SUPERIOR WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds GROW & LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds UPPER PENINSULA ANIMAL WELFARE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP ↗
- Who funds PETER WHITE PUBLIC LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES RECOVERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM AT THE INN ↗
- Who funds Superior Connections Recovery Community Organization ↗
- Who funds JANZEN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUPERIOR COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS AIRLIFELINE LTD ↗
- Who funds ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MARQUETTE JUNIOR HOCKEY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MARQUETTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TRILLIUM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SIX FEET OVER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: West End Health Foundation · Superior Health Foundation · United Way of Marquette County · Phyllis & Max Reynolds Foundation · Tourville Foundation · Frazier Fund Inc · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation · L G Kaufman Endowment Foundation · Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Community Foundation of Marquette County funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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