· Public charity
Marquette Country Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc
Promote tourism and convention business in marquette county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $109,850 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $197,658 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $87,808 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 $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARQUETTE JUNIOR HOCKEY | $40,000 |
| FRESH COAST LIGHT LAB | $16,850 |
| LAKE SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE RALLY | $10,000 |
| MARQUETTE LITTLE LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| UPW PRO WRESTLING LLC | $10,000 |
| MARQUETTE-ALGER RESA | $10,000 |
| NOQUEMANON TRAIL NETWORK | $7,000 |
| UP200 | $6,000 |
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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% 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.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- MJMARQUETTE JUNIOR HOCKEY CORPORATION5× · 2019–2024 · $95k · revenue +5%
- NTNOQUEMANON TRAILS NETWORK COUNCIL6× · 2019–2024 · $76k · revenue -15%
- LSLAKE SUPERIOR REGION OF THE SPORTS CAR CLUB OF AMERICA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $40k
Funded once
- FCFRESH COAST FILM FESTIVALgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +56%
- ICISHPEMING COMMUNITY EVENTSone grant, 2019 · $10k
- MSMICHIGAN SPORTS ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +210%
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.
Provide and promote junior/youth hockey
UP200's purpose is to promote interest in sled dogs, ed
Youth sports
We are a cycling program for youth in Marquette County
To promote the lifelong support of alpine skiing and its recreational, social, physical and competitive opportunities. the team encourages young skiers to grow as athletes in a nurturing environment, which sets no limits to their dreams.…
Maintain & improve pere marquette michigan area snowmobile trails.
Create and maintain a non motorized multi-use trail system that provides a place to experience mountain biking, hiking, cross country skiing, snowshoeing, trail running and more in a natural environment while providing the opportunity to…
To maintain a union of individuals engaged in sport fishing in the waters of lake superior's south shore and its tributary waters
Muskegon sports council mission is to provide quality, reliable, year-round recreational sports activities and programs to both muskegon county residents and visitors to the area. to uphold the strict environmental guidelines set forth by…
Promote responsible mountain bikg in MI
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Noquemanon Trails Network Council and the most unlike its peers is Upsda Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 MARQUETTE JUNIOR HOCKEY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NOQUEMANON TRAILS NETWORK COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds UPSDA Inc ↗
- Who funds MARQUETTE AREA BLUES SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds 906 ADVENTURE TEAM ↗
- Who funds FRESH COAST FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds ISHPEMING COMMUNITY EVENTS ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC 1221108 MARQUETTE AM LL ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN SPORTS ALLIANCE ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Marquette County
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 Marquette Country Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc 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.