· Private foundation
L G Kaufman Endowment Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 JUNIOR HOCKEY CORP | $5,000 |
| MARQUETTE AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| MARQUETTE AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| MARQUETTE AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| MARQUETTE JUNIOR HOCKEY CORP | $5,000 |
| BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against -28% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +65%
- WCWOMEN'S CENTER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $23k · revenue +103%
- UPUPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- NSNORTH STAR PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $3k
- MWMARQUETTE WOMENS CENTERone grant, 2017 · $2k
- MBMARQUETTE BEAUTIFICATION & RESTORATION COMMITTEE INCone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -28%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization L G Kaufman Endowment Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from L G Kaufman Endowment Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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