How much did COPPER SHORES COMMUNITY grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of COPPER SHORES COMMUNITY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

scholarshipelderly

2019

recreational facilitscholarshipswedetowntrailcareeducationtrails

2020

covid traumagardentrauma foodparkgetcoderecreational

2021

upper peninsulamedical educationeducation corporationsystem marquettedistricttrauma foodlow

2022

covidl'ansecampmedicalhouseholdlowtrauma

2023

childcarewatereatstewardshipupper peninsulamedical educationfocusing

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k9 grants · $69k
$10k–50k21 grants · $551k
$50k–250k8 grants · $830k
$250k+1 grant · $300k

$25,957

Median grant

States reached

$87M

Total assets

Largest grants

GREAT LAKES RECOVERY CENTER$300,000
MICHIGAN TECH UNIVERSITY$240,000
OMEGA HOUSE$162,210
LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDE$144,148
UNITE UP$72,711
31 BACKPACKS$57,338
BARBARA KETTLE GUNDLACH SHELTER$53,787
COPPER HARBOR TRAILS CLUB$50,115
LAURIUM VILLAGE$50,000
COPPER COUNTRY ANGEL MISSION$41,737
KEWEENAW FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$39,117
CALUMET TOWNSHIP$38,000
SIMPLE KINDNESS TO YOUTH$37,620
KEWEENAW LAND TRUST$33,567
CAMP JOSH$33,069

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$12M · 58 repeat orgs$848k to everyone else

58 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$12M

$695k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+69%

Still filing today

55%

26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionEducationArts & CultureOther

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

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OMEGA HOUSE
8× · 2017–2024 · $827k · revenue +58%
LB
LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDE
7× · 2017–2024 · $758k · revenue +88%
UK
UP KIDS
8× · 2017–2024 · $483k · revenue +61%

Funded once

K
KBIC
one grant, 2022 · $78k
BC
BARAGA COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
one grant, 2023 · $75k
SH
SUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +69%

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

04Your field

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.

Superior Snowmobile Club

Maintains snowmobile trails in houghton and ontonagon counties in the upper peninsula of michigan.

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Pere Marquette Snowmobile Club Inc

Maintain & improve pere marquette michigan area snowmobile trails.

Recreation & Sports

Mymichigan Health

Creating healthy communities together by providing excellent health services to improve the quality of life for our communities.

Health

Pace North

A provider of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) which is a community-based, long-term care delivery program that provides comprehensive, coordinated, managed care to eligible participants.

Health

Northwest Michigan Rural Housing

To help provide safe, accessible, and affordable housing in Northwest Michigan.

Housing & Shelter

Maine Huts & Trails

Maine Huts Trails provides inviting backcountry experiences among Maines western mountains, inspiring reverence for the Northern Forest, modeling environmental stewardship and strengthening the local economy.

Education

Lake Superior Community Partnership Inc

The Lake Superior Community Partnership is the Marquette County regions leading resource for economic development, providing a wide variety of affordable and effective development services.

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United Way of Marquette County

Focusing community resources to meet community needs the United Way of Marquette County works to advance the common good by connecting people with health and human care issues they are concerned about and to provide the oversight the…

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Peninsula Housing

A community land trust dedicated to providing secure, affordable housing in leelanau county.

Community Improvement

Upper Peninsula Land Conservancy

Protect land today for life tomorrow for communities across michigan's upper peninsula

Environment

Upper Peninsula Family Solutions Inc

The Agency is licensed by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services as a full-service adoption and foster care agency for families located in northern Michigan.

Human Services

Little Traverse Conservancy Inc

To protect the natural diversity and beauty of northern Michigan by preserving significant land and scenic areas, and fostering appreciation and understanding of the environment.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Superior Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Copper Country Habitat for Humanity. 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 21 years old; the field is 29. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 5% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%2/94

the rest of the field

16/353

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.

05the grantee network

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

44/46

Grantees still filing

31/46

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$7,575,208Human Services$2,210,682Health$999,794Recreation & Sports$607,060Youth Development$482,730Food & Nutrition$440,263Education$376,740

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.

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.

James a Ruppe FoundationIL39.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: James a Ruppe Foundation · The Klungness Family Foundation Inc · Keweenaw Community Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Superior Health Foundation · The Fb Heron Foundation · Feeding America West Michigan · Community Foundation of The · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · West End Health Foundation · The Martin Family Foundation · The Pfizer 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 organisation COPPER SHORES COMMUNITY 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: 31 BACKPACKS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 454916842 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on 31 BACKPACKS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 69% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Copper Shores Community?

Find your warmest path to Copper Shores Community through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

COPPER SHORES COMMUNITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Copper Shores Community?

More from the funding graph

COPPER SHORES COMMUNITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Copper Shores Community?

More from the funding graph