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Michigan Center for Rural Health
The purpose of the corporation is to develop a coordinated rural health program, to conduct research regarding rural health issues, to assist rural communities in health related areas, and such other purposes as the board shall determine from time to time, in general conformance with the statute authorizing the creation of the…
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.
The 82 grants below total $2,212,402 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,582,920 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $370,518 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k74 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k4 grants · $470k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MACKINAC ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER | $250,000 |
| BEAVER ISLAND RHC | $250,000 |
| DRUMMOND ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER | $173,136 |
| MEDIC 1 COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE | $152,473 |
| THORNAPPLE TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMENT | $73,500 |
| SPECTRUM HEALTH OFFICE OF RESEARCH & EDUCATION | $70,590 |
| Individual grant recipient | $33,920 |
| CHIPPEWA COUNTY DHD | $26,318 |
| DHD #2 | $26,318 |
| BRANCH HILLSDALE ST JOSEPH CHA | $26,318 |
| DHD #4 | $26,318 |
| ALLEGAN DHD | $26,318 |
| DHD #10 | $26,318 |
| MIDMICHIGAN DISTRICT HEALTH DEPT | $26,318 |
| GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY DHD | $26,318 |
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 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% 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.
90 repeat relationships — 77 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k 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
- BIBeaver Island Rural Health Center9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +85% · 28% of their budget
- MIMACKINAC ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +60% · 43% of their budget
- DIDRUMMOND ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +7% · 97% of their budget
Funded once
- ACALCONA CITIZENS FOR HEALTH INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +76%
- TSTEN SIXTEEN RECOVERY NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $44k · revenue +40%
- CACOMPREHENSIVE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT PROGRAMgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $19k · revenue +46%
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.
Creating healthy communities - together
Mclaren health care corporation, along with its subsidiaries, will be michigan's best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
Mclaren healthcare, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
Creating healthy communities - together
Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in health care as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
Creating healthy communities - together
As a vital part of munson healthcare, munson medical center exists to deliver comprehensive quality care to patients in partnership with physicians.
We, mercy health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy health partners is a member of mercy health and trinity health.
We, trinity health grand haven hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity health grand haven hospital is a member of trinity…
Creating healthy communities - together
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
Like the Sisters of Mercy before us, we witness God's healing love for all people by providing excellent clinical services within a community of compassionate care. As an independent Catholic hospital, we pledge to enhance the health of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mymichigan Medical Center Standish and the most unlike its peers is Drummond Island Medical Center Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 107 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.
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- Who funds Mid-Michigan District Health Dept ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC STRAITS HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds MYMICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER SAULT ↗
- Who funds HELEN NEWBERRY JOY HOSPITAL & HEALTHCARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASPIRUS KEWEENAW HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Munising Memorial Hospital Association ↗
- Who funds GRAND VIEW HOSPITAL WORKERS COMPENSATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds MCKENZIE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL MCKENZIE HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds SCHEURER HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds EATON RAPIDS MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN CARO REGION ↗
- Who funds DECKERVILLE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ASPIRUS IRON RIVER HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds SPARROW EATON HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds HARBOR BEACH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds MARLETTE REGIONAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SPARROW CLINTON HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE CHARLEVOIX HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION BORGESS-LEE HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds PAUL OLIVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE GRAYLING ↗
- Who funds SPARROW CARSON HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SPARROW IONIA HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds MYMICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER GLADWIN ↗
- Who funds MYMICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER CLARE ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE ↗
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: Michigan Health & Hospital Association Dba Mha · West Michigan Regional Medical Consortium · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Superior Health Foundation · Corewell Health Foundation West Michigan · Tri-County Emergency Medical Control Authority · Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation · Delta Dental Fund · Detroit & Wayne County Tuberculosis Foundation · Prevention Michigan · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Carls 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 Michigan Center for Rural Health 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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