· Community foundation
M & M Area Community Foundation
Inspiring people to build lasting legacies that enrich our communities.
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 15 grants below total $560,381 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $810,783 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $250,402 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 $10k6 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $161k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $307k
| 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 |
| MARINETTE COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH DEPT | $10,000 |
| LYLE CHUMMY MCDONALD MEMORIAL | $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 |
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 (FY17–23, $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 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k 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
- DBDAR BOYS & GIRLS CLUB8× · 2017–2024 · $264k · revenue +93% · 27% of their budget
- RCRIVER CITIES COMMUNITY POOL ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +72% · 29% of their budget
- TCTWIN COUNTIES FREE CLINIC INC3× · 2019–2021 · $158k · revenue +34% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- SPST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $50k
- UPUPPER PENINSULA CATHOLIC FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $50k
- FFFUTURE FUNDone grant, 2023 · $35k
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 provide shelter to the homeless community in merrill wi
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.
Provide instruction, practice and competition for local community youth hockey.
Promote the health and welfare of small domesticated animals
To provide volunteer fire services to the community.
Recreation - swimming club
To provide services to local seniors
Pet adoptions and disposals
The organization is a volunteer fire department surving the local community.
Care of cats and dogs
Volunteer rescue squad
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marinette Menominee Area Youth Hockey Association Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 55 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 DAR BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITIES COMMUNITY POOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN COUNTIES FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MARINETTE-MENOMINEE YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds MARINETTE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH CONFERENCE - MARINETTE WI OF THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL ↗
- Who funds MENOMINEE ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds M & M AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds M&M CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds WALTON BLESCH STADIUM LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RESOURCE AUTHORITY INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MARINETTE MENOMINEE AREA YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CRIVITZ RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES CASA OF MENOMINEE-MARINETTE ↗
- Who funds WAUSAUKEE RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds ABUNDANT LIFE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MARINETTE COUNTY GROUP HOME ASSOCIATION 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: 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
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 M & M Area 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.