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.

Copper Shores Community Health Foundation

Copper Shores Community Health Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$300k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$3.3MHuman Services$3.1MFood & Nutrition$1.5MRecreation & Sports$1.2MPublic Benefit$1.0MEducation$867kYouth Development$671kPublic Safety & Disaster$482kOther$0

02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 39 grants below total $1,750,663, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,090,700 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $340,037 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 $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
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

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.

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Its 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 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.

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.

$12M · 57 repeat orgs$826k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against -17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$12M

$673k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

-17%

Still filing today

54%

30%

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

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

OH
OMEGA HOUSE INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $827k · revenue +58%
LB
LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY UPPER MICHIGAN CHAPTER
7× · 2017–2024 · $758k · revenue +100%
GW
GOOD WILL FARM ASSOCIATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $483k · revenue +61%

Funded once

KB
KEWEENAW BAY OJIBWA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
one grant, 2022 · $78k
BC
BARAGA COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
one grant, 2023 · $75k
SH
SUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -32%

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.

Northwest Michigan Rural Housing Partnership

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

Housing & Shelter

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

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

Sonco Ambulance Inc

To provide ambulance service to rural areas in ontonagon county, michigan.

Public Safety & Disaster

Chippewa Health Access Coalition

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.

Health

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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Hospice Homes of Genesee and Lapeer Counties

To provide housing and end of life care and support to terminally ill individuals.

Human Services

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

Copper Peak Inc

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…

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Lake Superior Community Partnership Inc

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

—

Muskegon Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce

Member programs/services, economic development

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Superior Health Foundation; 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.

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 94 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

29/47

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$7,551,208Human Services$2,210,682Health$1,023,794Recreation & Sports$607,060Youth Development$482,730Food & Nutrition$440,263Education$376,740

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.

James a Ruppe FoundationIL51.5× affinity22 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 · 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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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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