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Keweenaw Community Foundation
To meet our vision of a thriving community, we connect the needs of the community with resources to collaboratively improve quality of life in the keweenaw peninsula.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $343,777 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $458,646 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $114,869 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 $10k8 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLOUEZ TOWNSHIP | $65,751 |
| REN | $58,916 |
| OMEGA HOUSE INC | $29,096 |
| VILLAGE OF LAURIUM | $23,250 |
| LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY | $21,355 |
| WESTERN UP PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT REGION | $20,150 |
| KEWEENAW LAND TRUST | $19,703 |
| SWEDETOWN TRAILS CLUB | $12,750 |
| COPPER COUNTRY SKI TIGERS | $10,924 |
| COPPER SHORES BEHAVIORAL HEATH SERVICES | $10,427 |
| COPPER COUNTRY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,000 |
| CALUMET THEATRE COMPANY | $9,427 |
| COPPER COUNTRY HUMANE SOCIETY | $9,111 |
| KEWEENAW FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $9,071 |
| SACRED HEART OF JESUS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $8,191 |
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, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
13 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 1 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k 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 INC3× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +58%
- LBLITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY UPPER MICHIGAN CHAPTER3× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +100%
- CSCOPPER SHORES COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2024 · $31k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- NPNEW POWER TOUR INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $91k · revenue +140% · 65% of their budget
- PLPORTAGE LAKE DISTRICT LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $12k
- KCKEWEENAW COMMUNITY FOREST COMPANYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +126%
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 stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.
To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.
To meet our vision of a thriving community, we connect the needs of the community with resources to collaboratively improve quality of life in the keweenaw peninsula.
Acquire, build & maintain snowmobile trails
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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.
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The Copper Country United Way is a Michigan Not-for-profit corporation that raises and distributes money to human service agencies in Michigan's Houghton & Keweenaw Counties.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Copper Shores Community Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is 31 Backpacks Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 25. 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 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.
20 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. 20 of the 32 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 NEW POWER TOUR INC ↗
- Who funds OMEGA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY UPPER MICHIGAN CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds KEWEENAW LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds COPPER SHORES COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SWEDETOWN TRAILS CLUB ↗
- Who funds The Calumet Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds KEWEENAW FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COPPER COUNTRY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BARBARA KETTLE GUNDLACH SHELTER HOME FOR ABUSED WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds COPPER COUNTRY SUZUKI ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds ISLE ROYALE NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KEWEENAW COMMUNITY FOREST COMPANY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DIAL HELP INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GOOD WILL FARM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds 31 BACKPACKS INC ↗
- Who funds Copper Country Community Arts Council ↗
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: Copper Shores Community Health Foundation · James a Ruppe Foundation · The Klungness Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula · The Fb Heron Foundation · Steven C Leuthold Family Foundation · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Keweenaw Community 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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