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Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula
To receive and administer charitable endowment funds for the benefit of the residents of the upper peninsula of michigan and to provide administrative, communication and other support to affiliate members and other community foundations.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 86% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE UPPER PENINSULA’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 44 grants below total $1,307,889 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,755,089 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $447,200 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 $10k15 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $474k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $220k
- $250k+1 grant · $508k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALL OTHERS LESS THAN 5000 | $508,061 |
| CITY OF GLADSTONE | $155,380 |
| BAY DE NOC COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $64,798 |
| U OF M MEDICAL SCHOOL | $46,960 |
| BONIFAS FINE ARTS CENTER | $31,223 |
| OSF ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION | $25,500 |
| DELTA ANIMAL SHELTER | $24,784 |
| MID PENINSULA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $23,893 |
| LES CHENEAUX CULINARY SCHOOL | $23,550 |
| Individual grant recipient | $23,456 |
| HOLY NAME CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $22,596 |
| RAPID RIVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $20,630 |
| CLARK TOWNSHIP | $19,161 |
| LES CHENEAUX EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $17,520 |
| FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN | $17,207 |
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 (FY17–24, $356k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% 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 +28% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 7 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- GLGROW & LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT6× · 2017–2024 · $265k · revenue +125%
- WBWILLIAM BONIFAS FINE ARTS CENTER6× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +45%
- LCLES CHENEAUX CULINARY SCHOOL INC6× · 2017–2024 · $91k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- SSSTRYKER SALES LLCone grant, 2021 · $60k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE LES CHENEAUX LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $51k
- FBFIRST BANKone grant, 2021 · $43k
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.
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…
To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.
To protect and restore central michigan's land, water, and wildlife resources to improve the quality of life for all.
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.
To stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special
To provide personal and compassionate support to cancer patients and their caregivers in our community.
The mission of gtrlc is to protect significant natural, scenic and farm lands and advance land stewardship now and for future generations.
The great lakes historical society is dedicated to the preservation of great lakes history.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Menominee-Delta-Schoolcraft Community Action Agency Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fund for Sustainable Empowered Development. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 116 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 GROW & LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM BONIFAS FINE ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds LES CHENEAUX CULINARY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds OMEGA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LES CHENEAUX EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES BOAT BUILDING SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY UPPER MICHIGAN CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY SERVICES OF DELTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LES CHENEAUX WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds Gladstone Senior Citizens Non-Profit Corporation ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HESSEL SCHOOL HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Sunny Dunes Inc ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY SAFE HARBOR 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: Edward J Sackerson Charitable Foundation · Keweenaw Community Foundation · Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation · Copper Shores Community Health Foundation · James a Ruppe Foundation · The Klungness Family Foundation Inc · Superior Health Foundation · The Donald and Audrey Anderson Foundation · John and Melissa Besse Foundation · Janet Carrington Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Michigan College Access Network
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 the Upper Peninsula 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.
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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