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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.

$459k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$66k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Environment$153kHuman Services$100kHealth$99kPublic Benefit$89kPhilanthropy$68kEducation$53kArts & Culture$45kRecreation & Sports$33kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $343,777, the rows itemized in this filing. The $458,646 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $114,869 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 $10k8 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $158k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$10,427
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Barbara Kettle Gundlach Shelter Home: $7k → 14%LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $21k → 14%LITTLE BROS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $21k → 14%Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly: $10k → 14%OMEGA HOUSE INC: $29k → 14%OMEGA HOUSE: $22k → 14%Omega House: $17k → 14%BARBARA KETTLE GUNDLACH SHELTER HOME: $7k → 14%Barbara Kettle Gundlach Shelter: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$372k · 13 repeat orgs$292k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
11

Total granted

$372k
$168k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+61%

Still filing today

85%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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
    3× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +58%
  • LB
    LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY UPPER MICHIGAN CHAPTER
    3× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +100%
  • CS
    COPPER SHORES COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $31k · revenue +153%

Funded once

  • NP
    NEW POWER TOUR INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $91k · revenue +140% · 65% of their budget
  • PL
    PORTAGE LAKE DISTRICT LIBRARY
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
  • KC
    KEWEENAW COMMUNITY FOREST COMPANYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +126%
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.

1
Lake Superior Community Partnership Inc

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

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2
Little Traverse Conservancy Conservation Trust

To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.

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3
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.

Philanthropy
4
Keweenaw Trails Services Inc

Acquire, build & maintain snowmobile trails

Recreation & Sports
5
Peninsula Fund

To operate exclusively to promote civic action and social welfare by promoting the common good and general welfare of Michigan residents and visitors; to support public policies on the federal, state, and local levels that bring about…

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6
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
7
Coalition to Protect Michigan Resources

The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…

Environment
8
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Charlevoix Historical Society

To preserve historical information, restore and maintain historical buildings, and promote historical education.

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10
Dark Sky Coast Association

The dark sky coast association is a non-profit organization supporting the development, protection and sustainability of michigans dark sky coast in northern emmet county.

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11
Calumet Collarborative

The calumet collaborative is dedicated to achieving inclusive regional prosperity and improving quality of life by focusing attention and resources of diverse stakeholders on priorities and on the ground work that integrates community,…

Community Improvement
12
Copper Country United Way

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Copper Shores Community Health Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALLOUEZ TOWNSHIP: $65,751 · OtherALLOUEZ TOWNSHIPWESTERN UP PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT REGION: $30,150 · OtherWESTERN UP PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT REGIONVILLAGE OF LAURIUM: $23,250 · OtherVILLAGE OF LAURIUMSWEDETOWN TRAILS CLUB: $21,750 · OtherSWEDETOWN TRAILS CLUBKEWEENAW FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $21,096 · OtherKEWEENAW FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERHOUGHTON PORTAGE TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS: $14,100 · OtherPORTAGE LAKE DISTRICT LIBRARY: $12,200 · OtherCOPPER COUNTRY SKI TIGERS INC: $10,924 · OtherTHE WESTERN UPPER PENINSULA CENTER: $10,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION: $10,000 · Other+8 more: $54,313 · Other+8 moreNEW POWER TOUR INC: $90,539 · EnvironmentNEW POWER TOUR INCKEWEENAW LAND TRUST INC: $38,520 · EnvironmentKEWEENAW LAND TRUST INCISLE ROYALE NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION: $13,613 · EnvironmentISLE ROYALE NATURAL HIS…KEWEENAW COMMUNITY FOREST COMPANY: $10,000 · EnvironmentKEWEENAW COMMUNITY FORE…OMEGA HOUSE INC: $68,213 · Human ServicesOMEGA HOUSE INCLITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY UPPER MICHIGAN CHAPTER: $52,746 · Human ServicesLITTLE BROTHERS FRIEN…BARBARA KETTLE GUNDLACH SHELTER HOME FOR ABUSED WOMEN INC: $19,567 · Human ServicesBARBARA KETTLE GUNDLA…Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $58,916 · PhilanthropyRenaissanc…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE COUNTY: $8,675 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY …The Calumet Theatre Company: $21,308 · Arts & CultureCOPPER COUNTRY SUZUKI ASSOC INC: $18,757 · Arts & CultureCopper Country Community Arts Council: $5,036 · Arts & CultureCOPPER SHORES COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $31,227 · HealthCOPPER COUNTRY HUMANE SOCIETY: $20,638 · Animals
Other$273,534Environment$152,672Human Services$140,526Philanthropy$67,591Arts & Culture$45,101Health$31,227Animals$20,638

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW POWER TOUR INC: $90,539 over 1y, 65% of budgetOMEGA HOUSE INC: $68,213 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $58,916 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY UPPER MICHIGAN CHAPTER: $52,746 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetKEWEENAW LAND TRUST INC: $38,520 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCOPPER SHORES COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $31,227 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSWEDETOWN TRAILS CLUB: $21,750 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetThe Calumet Theatre Company: $21,308 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetKEWEENAW FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $21,096 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetCOPPER COUNTRY HUMANE SOCIETY: $20,638 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBARBARA KETTLE GUNDLACH SHELTER HOME FOR ABUSED WOMEN INC: $19,567 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCOPPER COUNTRY SUZUKI ASSOC INC: $18,757 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetISLE ROYALE NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION: $13,613 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetKEWEENAW COMMUNITY FOREST COMPANY: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE COUNTY: $8,675 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

Copper Shores Communi…James a Ruppe Foundat…The Klungness Family …Community Foundation …The Fb Heron Foundati…Steven C Leuthold Fam…Incrediblebank Founda…Michigan Health Endow…Shell USA Company Fou…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
Copper Shores Community Health FoundationMI38.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Keweenaw Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Keweenaw Community Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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