· Private foundation
Frazier Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| WOMEN'S CENTER | $20,000 |
| TRILLIUM HOUSE INC | $15,000 |
| MARQUETTE REGIONAL HISTORY CENTER | $15,000 |
| NORTHERN LIGHTS CHILD ADVOCACY | $15,000 |
| LAKE SUPERIOR HOSPICE | $9,000 |
| LAKE SUPERIOR THEATER | $7,500 |
| UP CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| WILLOW FARM THERAPUDIC RIDING | $5,000 |
| ISHPEMING CANCER SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| CAMP NEW DAY UP | $4,500 |
| SUPERIOR STRING ALLIANCE | $3,000 |
| MARQUETTE AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $2,000 |
| 8-18 MEDIA | $2,000 |
| MARQUETTE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +51% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- WCWOMEN'S CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +86%
- THTRILLIUM HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +73%
- UPUPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED6× · 2017–2022 · $38k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTEone grant, 2023 · $25k
- SISHIRAS INSTITUTEone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
- YOYMCA OF MARQUETTE COUNTYone grant, 2019 · $10k
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 preserve, record and maintain the historical information of the area between michigan's upper and lower peninsulas, known as michilimackinac.
To stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.
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.
To preserve historical information, restore and maintain historical buildings, and promote historical education.
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…
To provide 24-hour residential substance abuse treatment for adult homeless men in a professional, compassionate, and therapeutic environment conducive to reducing drug and alcohol addiction and promoting their return to health,…
Up land conservancy protects land in michigan's upper peninsula by owning it as nature preserves and working forest reserves, and through conservation easements(perpetual, voluntary agreements that guard the conservation values of the…
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
To promote cooperative medical services throughout marquette county and the upper peninsula of michigan that would provide a continuum of care for qualifying, uninsured, and/or under-insured persons.
To educate the public on the history of Manistee County
To enrich the communities of Southeastern Michigan in fostering excellence and innovation to our community in the performance of orchestral music to educate current and future audiences
Inspire people to explore the past, understand the present, and envision the future of the diverse cultures in the leelanau peninsula and its islands. this is done by exhibitions and educational programs and perserving artifacts,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child and Family Services of the Upper Peninsula Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marquette Maritime Museum. 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 52 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 WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRILLIUM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Lake Superior Theatre ↗
- Who funds UPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ROOM AT THE INN ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUPERIOR HOSPICE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SUPERIOR STRING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ISHPEMING CANCER SOCIETY SERVING MARQUETTE CO ↗
- Who funds BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP ↗
- Who funds SHIRAS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MARQUETTE ALGER RECONCILIATION SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES RECOVERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MARQUETTE MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UPPER PENINSULA ANIMAL WELFARE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF THE UPPER PENINSULA INC ↗
- Who funds MARQUETTE BEAUTIFICATION & RESTORATION COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUPERIOR COMMUNITY PTNRSHP FOUNDATION ↗
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: Phyllis & Max Reynolds Foundation · Tourville Foundation · Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation · United Way of Marquette County · L G Kaufman Endowment Foundation · Community Foundation of Marquette County · West End Health Foundation · Superior Health Foundation · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · Jx Gives Back Family 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 organization Frazier Fund Inc 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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