· Private foundation
L G Kaufman Endowment Foundation
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 $10k16 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARQUETTE AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $54,000 |
| CITY OF MARQUETTE POLICE | $20,000 |
| MARQUETTE CITY BAND | $15,000 |
| MARQUETTE AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| MARQUETTE AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| MARQUETTE JUNIOR HOCKEY CORP | $5,000 |
| MARQUETTE AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| MARQUETTE JUNIOR HOCKEY CORP | $5,000 |
| MARQUETTE AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| NORTHERN LIGHTS CHILD ADVOCACY | $4,000 |
| MARQUETTE AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $3,000 |
| CANCER CARE OF MARQUETTE COUNTY | $2,500 |
| UP CHILDRENS THERAPY | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your 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 +40% since the first grant, against -28% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- BCBAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +65%
- MJMARQUETTE JUNIOR HOCKEY CORPORATION8× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +10%
- WCWOMEN'S CENTER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $23k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- NSNORTH STAR PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $3k
- MWMARQUETTE WOMENS CENTERone grant, 2017 · $2k
- MFMARQUETTE FIRST ROBOTICS TEAM COLD LOGICone grant, 2017 · $1k
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 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
Promoting community through music
To preserve, record and maintain the historical information of the area between michigan's upper and lower peninsulas, known as michilimackinac.
Choral music performance society.
Our mission is to provide a safe and stable learning environment that nurtures a foundation for lifelong success through developmentally appropriate curriculum that stimulates the social, emotional, cognitive and physical growth of each…
Present community concerts to enhance arts and culture and provide educational experience regarding diverse offering of concerts
Provide and promote junior/youth hockey
To preserve and promote maritime history
Promote jazz music through free concerts and individual concerts. money is raised through fundraisers to pay for expenes relating to the festival.
The mackinac arts council creates, supports, and promotes the arts to enrich the lives of people visiting, working, and living on mackinac island.
Maintain & improve pere marquette michigan area snowmobile trails.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Marquette County and the most unlike its peers is Northwoods Airlifeline Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 27 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 BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP ↗
- Who funds MARQUETTE JUNIOR HOCKEY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS AIRLIFELINE LTD ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SUPERIOR ARTS YOUTH THEATER ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MARQUETTE CITY BAND INC ↗
- Who funds SUPERIOR STRING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY CHILDRENS ART PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MARQUETTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE ISHPEMING CANCER SOCIETY SERVING MARQUETTE CO ↗
- Who funds MARQUETTE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MARQUETTE BEAUTIFICATION & RESTORATION COMMITTEE INC ↗
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 · Frazier Fund Inc · Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Marquette County · West End Health Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · Tourville Foundation · United Way of Marquette County · Superior Health Foundation · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 L G Kaufman Endowment 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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