How much does M & M Area Community Foundation give?

M & M Area Community Foundation reported 15 itemized grants totaling $560,381, out of $810,783 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does M & M Area Community Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (47%), Education (11%), Youth Development (8%).

Who are M & M Area Community Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: City of Marinette ($1.4M), City of Menominee ($418k), Dar Boys & Girls Club ($264k).

Does M & M Area Community Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is M & M Area Community Foundation based?

M & M Area Community Foundation is based in MI.

M & M Area Community Foundation

M & M Area Community Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

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M & M Area Community Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as M & M Area Community Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Provident Health Foundation of Marinette/Menominee Inc, Wisconsin Public Service Foundation, Dickinson Family Inc Foundation.

Inspiring people to build lasting legacies that enrich our communities.

$811k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$307k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$1.8MEducation$437kYouth Development$323kRecreation & Sports$292kHuman Services$278kHealth$215kReligion$137kArts & Culture$112kOther$0

02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 15 grants below total $560,381, the rows itemized in this filing. The $810,783 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $250,402 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 $10k6 grants · $43k
$10k–50k7 grants · $161k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$250k+1 grant · $307k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CITY OF MENOMINEE	$306,566
RIVER CITY COMMUNITY POOL	$50,000
M&M CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC	$34,804
MARINETTE MENOMINEE AREA PICKLEBALL	$30,385
DAR BOYS & GIRLS CLUB	$28,504
WALTON BLESCH STADIUM LEGACY	$25,000
COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE FUND	$22,120
LYLE CHUMMY MCDONALD MEMORIAL	$10,000
MARINETTE COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH DEPT	$10,000
ST THOMAS AQUINAS ACADEMY	$8,814
MIDDLE INLET VOLUNTEER FIRE	$8,000
NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY	$7,500
MENOMINEE ANIMAL SHELTER	$6,940
PINCREST MEDICAL CARE FACILITY	$6,211
BEECHER-DUNBAR-PREMBINE SCHOOL	$5,537

02The need

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 (FY17–23, $269k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.4M · 21 repeat orgs$439k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.4M

$328k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+56%

Still filing today

38%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthReligionPublic Safety & DisasterAnimalsOther

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

DB
DAR BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
8× · 2017–2024 · $264k · revenue +93% · 27% of their budget
RC
RIVER CITIES COMMUNITY POOL ASSOCIATION INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +72% · 29% of their budget
TC
TWIN COUNTIES FREE CLINIC INC
3× · 2019–2021 · $158k · revenue +34% · 35% of their budget

Funded once

SP
ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
one grant, 2017 · $50k
UP
UPPER PENINSULA CATHOLIC FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2021 · $50k
FF
FUTURE FUND
one grant, 2023 · $35k

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.

Merrill Community Homeless Center Inc

To provide shelter to the homeless community in merrill wi

Housing & Shelter

Michigan Area Ambulance Service Inc

Provide rural ambulance service to several communities and provide training in the areas of safety and emergency services to ambulance service staff and the general public.

Health

Manitowoc County Youth Hockey Association Inc

Provide instruction, practice and competition for local community youth hockey.

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Manitowoc County Crimestoppers Inc

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Marion Area Humane Society

Promote the health and welfare of small domesticated animals

Animals

Maquoketa Firefighters Association

To provide volunteer fire services to the community.

—

Demarest Swim Club

Recreation - swimming club

—

Marion Senior Citizens Association Inc

To provide services to local seniors

Human Services

Metro Animal Shelter

Pet adoptions and disposals

Animals

Mooers Fire Department Inc

The organization is a volunteer fire department surving the local community.

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Muscatine Humane Society Inc

Care of cats and dogs

Animals

Harrisonburg Rescue Squad Inc

Volunteer rescue squad

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marinette Menominee Area Youth Hockey Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dar Boys & Girls Club. 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

22 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. 22 of the 55 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/22

Grantees still filing

16/22

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,272,841Human Services$268,946Recreation & Sports$195,400Animals$61,400Philanthropy$42,120Arts & Culture$34,804Health$10,750

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.

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.

Provident Health Foundation of Marinette/Menominee IncWI34.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Provident Health Foundation of Marinette/Menominee Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Dickinson Family Inc Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · John and Julie Henes Foundationinc · Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

10report 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home