How much does Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula give?

Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula reported 44 itemized grants totaling $1,307,889, out of $1,755,089 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 63 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (21%), Public Benefit (19%), Arts & Culture (4%).

Who are Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: City of Gladstone ($1.2M), Clark Township ($566k), Bay College ($394k).

Does Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Edward J Sackerson Charitable Foundation, Keweenaw Community Foundation, Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation.

Where is Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula based?

Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula is based in MI.

Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula

Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Community foundation

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.

$1.8M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$508k

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.

Education$2.0MPublic Benefit$1.8MArts & Culture$402kHealth$382kHuman Services$322kYouth Development$278kAnimals$184kEnvironment$154kOther$0

02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 44 grants below total $1,307,889, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,755,089 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $447,200 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 · FY2024

Under $10k15 grants · $105k
$10k–50k26 grants · $474k
$50k–250k2 grants · $220k
$250k+1 grant · $508k

$12,975

Median grant

States reached

$40M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

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 (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 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.

$8.8M · 61 repeat orgs$701k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.8M

$615k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+18%

Still filing today

49%

21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentReligionOther

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

GL
GROW & LEAD COMMUNITY AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
6× · 2017–2024 · $265k · revenue +125%
WB
WILLIAM BONIFAS FINE ARTS CENTER
6× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +45%
LC
LES CHENEAUX CULINARY SCHOOL INC
6× · 2017–2024 · $91k · revenue +17%

Funded once

SS
STRYKER SALES LLC
one grant, 2021 · $60k
FO
FRIENDS OF THE LES CHENEAUX LIBRARY
one grant, 2020 · $51k
FB
FIRST BANK
one grant, 2021 · $43k

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.

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

Leelanau Conservancy

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.

Environment

Chippewa Watershed Conservancy Inc

To protect and restore central michigan's land, water, and wildlife resources to improve the quality of life for all.

Environment

Legacy Land Conservancy

Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever

Environment

The Little Forks Conservancy Inc

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.

Environment

Lake Superior Community Partnership Inc

To stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.

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Great Lakes Center for the Arts

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.

Arts & Culture

Harbor Country Chamber of Commerce

To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.

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Six Rivers Land Conservancy Fka Six Rivers Regional Land Conservancy

To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special

Environment

Midland County Cancer Society Dba Cancer Services

To provide personal and compassionate support to cancer patients and their caregivers in our community.

—

Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy

The mission of gtrlc is to protect significant natural, scenic and farm lands and advance land stewardship now and for future generations.

Environment

The Great Lakes Historical Society

The great lakes historical society is dedicated to the preservation of great lakes history.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Menominee-Delta-Schoolcraft Community Action Agency Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 116 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)

45/47

Grantees still filing

38/47

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$8,191,817Human Services$356,443Philanthropy$265,385Arts & Culture$260,517Education$199,510Environment$108,418Health$100,855

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.

Edward J Sackerson Charitable FoundationMI28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 the Upper Peninsula funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

18report 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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