How much does Community Foundation of Marquette County give?

Community Foundation of Marquette County reported 80 itemized grants totaling $2,253,767, out of $2,402,098 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 53 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Community Foundation of Marquette County fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (22%), Public Benefit (18%), Youth Development (11%).

Who are Community Foundation of Marquette County's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Superior Watershed Partnership ($2.3M), Grow & Lead Community and Youth Development ($1.2M), Room at the Inn ($275k).

Does Community Foundation of Marquette County fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of Marquette County?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include West End Health Foundation, Superior Health Foundation, United Way of Marquette County.

Where is Community Foundation of Marquette County based?

Community Foundation of Marquette County is based in MI.

Community Foundation of Marquette County

Community Foundation of Marquette County at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Community foundation

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.

$2.4M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$361k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$2.0MPublic Benefit$1.6MYouth Development$1.0MEducation$836kHealth$493kHuman Services$326kArts & Culture$305kHousing & Shelter$259kOther$0

02FY2025 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 80 grants below total $2,253,767, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,402,098 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $148,331 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k31 grants · $206k
$10k–50k42 grants · $795k
$50k–250k5 grants · $556k
$250k+2 grants · $696k

$11,025

Median grant

States reached

$65M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SUPERIOR WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP	$360,925
CITY OF MARQUETTE MI	$335,441
ROOM AT THE INN	$184,004
GROW AND LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH	$173,526
SUPERIOR CONNECTIONS RECOVERY COMMU	$75,000
NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY	$73,400
JANZEN HOUSE	$50,000
UPPER PENISULA LAND CONSERVANCY	$45,901
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE C	$45,000
POWELL TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS	$32,000
NEGAUNEE HIGH SCHOOL (BAND)	$31,950
BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP	$30,500
PETER WHITE PUBLIC LIBRARY	$28,931
UPAWS	$28,709
TRILIUM HOUSE	$27,750

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$11M · 59 repeat orgs$739k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$11M

$465k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+28%

Still filing today

56%

17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $274k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

SW
SUPERIOR WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +92%
GL
GROW & LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +125% · 26% of their budget
BC
BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP
9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +65%

Funded once

UN
US NATIONAL SKI HALL OF FAME
one grant, 2024 · $157k
CO
CITY OF MARQUETTE
one grant, 2019 · $95k
MM
MARQUETTE MOUNTAIN RACE TEAM
one grant, 2024 · $25k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Mymichigan Health Foundation

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…

Health

Michigan Pharmacists Association

To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.

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Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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Up Health Education Corporation

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…

Education

Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment

Mymichigan Medical Group

Creating healthy communities - together

Health

Business Leaders for Michigan

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.…

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Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Community Improvement

Northern Michigan Hematology and Oncology

Provide professional services for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and infectious disease and related conditions.

Health

Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment

Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grow & Lead Community and Youth Development; 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.

04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 114 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/43

Grantees still filing

32/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$6,507,227Environment$2,384,963Philanthropy$1,289,803Health$484,090Education$314,533Housing & Shelter$275,004Animals$187,003

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

West End Health FoundationMI41.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community Foundation of Marquette County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation of Marquette County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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