Michigan · Public charity
Copper Shores Community Health Foundation
To support the charitable health needs of the community through enhanced philanthropy and community collaboration
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 39
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.8M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,957
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 44
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $87M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Copper Shores Community Health Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 38 | $1.7M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $1.6M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $2.3M | 23% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $2.0M | 23% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $2.5M | 41% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $1.2M | 43% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $1.0M | 48% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $334k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dial Help Incorporated | $1,803,536 | 7 | 40% |
| Omega House Inc | $827,005 | 8 | 18% |
| City of Houghton | $826,814 | 7 | n/a |
| Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly Upper Michigan Chapter | $757,840 | 7 | 15% |
| Good Will Farm Association Inc | $482,730 | 8 | 2% |
| Upper Great Lakes Family Health Center | $465,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Copper Country Senior Meals Inc | $459,226 | 4 | 38% |
| Michigan Tech University | $448,869 | 6 | n/a |
| Great Lakes Recovery Centers Inc | $361,967 | 4 | 1% |
| Copper Harbor Trails Society Inc | $339,726 | 6 | 26% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dial Help Incorporated | $1,803,536 | 7 | 40% |
| Omega House Inc | $827,005 | 8 | 18% |
| City of Houghton | $826,814 | 7 | n/a |
| Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly Upper Michigan Chapter | $757,840 | 7 | 15% |
| Good Will Farm Association Inc | $482,730 | 8 | 2% |
| Upper Great Lakes Family Health Center | $465,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Copper Country Senior Meals Inc | $459,226 | 4 | 38% |
| Michigan Tech University | $448,869 | 6 | n/a |
| Great Lakes Recovery Centers Inc | $361,967 | 4 | 1% |
| Copper Harbor Trails Society Inc | $339,726 | 6 | 26% |
| 31 Backpacks Inc | $304,072 | 6 | 69% |
| Barbara Kettle Gundlach Shelter Home for Abused Women Inc | $283,516 | 7 | 10% |
| Stanton Township | $261,391 | 5 | n/a |
| Houghton Portage Township Schools | $252,459 | 3 | n/a |
| Public Schools of Calumet Laurium & Keweenaw Foundation Inc | $246,740 | 5 | 40% |
| Keweenaw Family Resource Center | $192,751 | 8 | 12% |
| Finlandia University | $185,190 | 5 | 1% |
| Simple Kindness for Youth Inc | $179,160 | 8 | n/a |
| Swedetown Trails Club | $169,615 | 6 | 22% |
| Hancock Public Schools | $167,750 | 4 | n/a |
| Copper Country Angel Mission | $160,270 | 4 | 38% |
| Copper Country Intermediate School | $145,783 | 5 | n/a |
| L'Anse Area School District | $140,804 | 3 | n/a |
| Ahmeek Village Volunteer Fire & Rescue Department | $128,935 | 5 | n/a |
| Hancock Trails Club | $121,006 | 5 | 47% |
| Baraga Co Shelter Home | $115,041 | 6 | 8% |
| Charter Township of Calumet | $112,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Camp Josh | $106,208 | 3 | 43% |
| Ontonagon County Cancer Association | $103,228 | 6 | 33% |
| Dollar Bay Tamarack Schools | $100,762 | 4 | n/a |
| Village of L'Anse | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Up Health Education Corporation | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Feeding America | $97,400 | 4 | 0% |
| Copper Country Habitat for Humanity | $96,842 | 4 | 8% |
| Adams Township School District | $89,350 | 2 | n/a |
| Baraga Area Schools | $84,850 | 3 | n/a |
| Chassell Twp Schools | $82,450 | 3 | n/a |
| Unite Up | $79,488 | 2 | 10% |
| Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College | $78,124 | 1 | n/a |
| Baraga County Memorial Hospital | $75,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Chassell Township | $71,045 | 4 | n/a |
| City of Hancock | $69,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Superior Search & Rescue | $66,908 | 3 | n/a |
| Ontonagon Area Schools | $64,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Dan Schmitt Gift of Music and Education Fund | $58,175 | 6 | 13% |
| Keweenaw Land Trust Inc | $56,365 | 2 | 3% |
| Superior Health Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Village of Laurium | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Coro Medical | $49,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Main Street Calumet Inc | $49,225 | 3 | 52% |
| Lake Linden-Hubbell Schools | $45,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Western Upper Penisula Dhd | $42,907 | 2 | n/a |
| Keweenaw Random Acts of Community Kindness Inc | $42,891 | 5 | n/a |
| Bootjack Fire & Rescue Foundation | $42,665 | 3 | 31% |
| Michigan Dep of Health & Human Services | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Phoenix House Inc | $36,402 | 3 | 1% |
| Friends of the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park Inc | $35,968 | 4 | 45% |
| Ewen Trout Creek Schools | $35,250 | 1 | n/a |
| From The Ground Farmers Market Collective | $31,641 | 2 | 32% |
| Northern Michigan University | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Gogebic Community College Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Copper Country Humane Society | $26,771 | 1 | 4% |
| Right Start Up | $25,957 | 1 | 21% |
| Baraga County | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Copper Country Junior Hockey Association Inc | $24,274 | 2 | 6% |
| Bay Ambulance Inc | $24,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Oak House Inc | $23,328 | 1 | 5% |
| Greenland Township | $22,600 | 1 | n/a |
| L'Anse Township | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Village of Baraga | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Michigan State University | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Eagle Harbor Township | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Innovation Marquette Enterprise Corporation | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Portage Lake Multi-Educational Services Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Houghton Township | $19,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Evangel Baptist Church of Houghton Mi | $17,720 | 1 | n/a |
| Village of Ontonagon | $16,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Let S Eat Community Meals Inc | $16,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Keweenaw Trails Services INC | $15,846 | 2 | 3% |
| Bay Cliff Health Camp | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| International Association of Lions Clubs | $14,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Keweenaw County Sherif | $11,581 | 1 | n/a |
| Copper Island Academy | $11,542 | 1 | n/a |
| Calumet Township Fire & Rescue | $10,028 | 1 | n/a |
| Superior Graphics | $9,550 | 1 | n/a |
| Calumet Art Center | $7,629 | 1 | 20% |
| Western Upper Peninsula Food Bank Inc | $7,150 | 1 | 4% |
| Mercy EMS Inc | $6,937 | 1 | 0% |
| Copper Country Ski Tigers Inc | $6,918 | 1 | n/a |
| New Power Tour Inc | $6,873 | 1 | 2% |
| Gogebic-Ontonagon Great Start Collaborative | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Upper Peninsula Human Trafficking Task Force | $5,535 | 1 | n/a |
| Bridging Gaps Childcare | $5,085 | 1 | 4% |
Where it is load-bearing
Copper Shores Community Health Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Copper Shores Community Health Foundation
- How much does Copper Shores Community Health Foundation give?
- Copper Shores Community Health Foundation reported 39 itemized grants totaling $1,750,663, out of $2,090,700 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Copper Shores Community Health Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (26%), Human Services (24%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are Copper Shores Community Health Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Dial Help Incorporated ($1.8M), Omega House Inc ($827k), City of Houghton ($827k).
- Does Copper Shores Community Health Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Copper Shores Community Health Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include James a Ruppe Foundation, The Klungness Family Foundation Inc, Keweenaw Community Foundation.
- Where is Copper Shores Community Health Foundation based?
- Copper Shores Community Health Foundation is based in MI.
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