· Public charity
Copper Shores Community Health Foundation
To support the charitable health needs of the community through enhanced philanthropy and community collaboration
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of COPPER SHORES COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION’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 39 grants below total $1,750,663 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,090,700 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $340,037 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 $10k9 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $551k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $830k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 6 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k 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
- OHOMEGA HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $827k · revenue +58%
- LBLITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY UPPER MICHIGAN CHAPTER7× · 2017–2024 · $758k · revenue +100%
- GWGOOD WILL FARM ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $483k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- KBKEWEENAW BAY OJIBWA COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $78k
- BCBARAGA COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $75k
- SHSUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -32%
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.
To help provide safe, accessible, and affordable housing in Northwest Michigan.
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.
Maintains snowmobile trails in houghton and ontonagon counties in the upper peninsula of michigan.
Maintain & improve pere marquette michigan area snowmobile trails.
To provide ambulance service to rural areas in ontonagon county, michigan.
The organization was formed for the purpose of providing access to quality health care for uninsured residents of chippewa, luce and mackinac counties of michigan by coordinating health care providers.
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.
To provide housing and end of life care and support to terminally ill individuals.
The agency administers various governmental programs for the low income and elderly population in a three-county region in the northwestern upper peninsula of michigan.
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…
We are on a mission to revive copper peak as the ultimate ski jump destination. our goal is to bring together winter and summer competitions, representing michigan's upper peninsula and the surrounding region as a global hub for outdoor…
Creating healthy communities - together
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Superior Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Camp Josh. 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 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 5% 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 94 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 DIAL HELP INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds OMEGA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY UPPER MICHIGAN CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds GOOD WILL FARM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Upper Great Lakes Family Health Center ↗
- Who funds COPPER COUNTRY SENIOR MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES RECOVERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds COPPER HARBOR TRAILS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds 31 BACKPACKS INC ↗
- Who funds BARBARA KETTLE GUNDLACH SHELTER HOME FOR ABUSED WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF CALUMET LAURIUM & KEWEENAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KEWEENAW FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FINLANDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SWEDETOWN TRAILS CLUB ↗
- Who funds COPPER COUNTRY ANGEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds HANCOCK TRAILS CLUB ↗
- Who funds BARAGA CO SHELTER HOME ↗
- Who funds CAMP JOSH ↗
- Who funds Ontonagon County Cancer Association ↗
- Who funds UP HEALTH EDUCATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds COPPER COUNTRY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds UNITE UP ↗
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: James a Ruppe Foundation · The Klungness Family Foundation Inc · Keweenaw Community Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Superior Health Foundation · Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula · The Fb Heron Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Feeding America West Michigan · Community Foundation of Marquette County · West End Health Foundation · Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation
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 Copper Shores Community Health Foundation 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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