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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…

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
82
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$35MEducation$545kReligion$512kPublic Benefit$368kCommunity Improvement$328kPublic Safety & Disaster$245kEnvironment$24kHuman Services$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 82 grants below total $2,212,402, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,582,920 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $370,518 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k74 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $470k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$11,765
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEAVER ISLAND RHC$250,000
MACKINAC ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER$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
BRANCH HILLSDALE ST JOSEPH CHA$26,318
DELTA MENOMINEE DHD$26,318
CENTRAL MICHIGAN DHD$26,318
GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY DHD$26,318
DHD #10$26,318
ALLEGAN DHD$26,318
MIDMICHIGAN DISTRICT HEALTH DEPT$26,318
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MUNSON HEALTHCARE: $300k → 7%BARRY EATON DHD: $381k → 9%SPARROW CLINTON HOSPITAL: $270k → 9%ALLEGAN DHD: $297k → 10%PAUL OLIVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $268k → 10%HURON MEDICAL CENTER: $270k → 12%BORGESS-LEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $268k → 12%SPARROW IONIA: $270k → 12%BRONSON LAKEVIEW HOSPITAL: $270k → 12%CARO COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $270k → 12%KALKASKA HOSPITAL: $270k → 12%SCHOOLCRAFT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $270k → 13%ASPIRUS IRON RIVER: $268k → 13%DHD #10: $548k → 13%DICKINSON COUNTY HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: $270k → 13%MUNSON HEALTHCARE MANISTEE: $268k → 13%THREE RIVERS HEALTH: $268k → 13%ST MARY'S STANDISH HOSPITAL: $268k → 14%HILLSDALE HOSPITAL: $300k → 14%MIDMICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER-GLADWIN: $270k → 14%MUNSON HEALTHCARE GRAYLING: $268k → 14%BARAGA COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $270k → 14%ASPIRUS ONTONAGON HOSPITAL: $268k → 14%DECKERVILLE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $268k → 14%MACKINAC STRAITS HEALTH SYSTEM: $268k → 14%PORTAGE HEALTH SYSTEM: $270k → 14%HELEN NEWBERRY JOY HOSPITAL: $269k → 16%BRANCH HILLSDALE ST JOSEPH CHA: $373k → 16%ASPIRUS GRAND VIEW HOSPITAL: $268k → 17%MIDMICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER-CLARE: $270k → 17%ASCENSION TAWAS: $268k → 18%CENTRAL MICHIGAN DHD: $454k → 19%MUNSON HEALTHCARE CHARLEVOIX: $268k → 9%SPARROW EATON: $268k → 9%ASCENSION ALLEGAN: $268k → 10%BRONSON SOUTH HAVEN HOSPITAL: $270k → 12%OSF ST FRANCIS: $268k → 13%SPARROW CARSON CITY: $270k → 15%MCLAREN CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $270k → 19%SPECTRUM HEALTH SYSTEM: $652k → 11%LENAWEE COUNTY DHD: $273k → 12%BMH-WIND DOWN: $270k → 11%EMMA L BIXBY MEDICAL CENTER: $270k → 12%SCHEURER HOSPITAL: $268k → 12%MUNISING MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $270k → 11%SHERIDAN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $294k → 15%EATON RAPIDS MEDICAL CENTER: $270k → 9%MIDMICHIGAN DISTRICT HEALTH DEPT: $400k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$37M · 90 repeat orgs$491k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
13

Total granted

$37M
$231k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+68%

Still filing today

62%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • BI
    Beaver Island Rural Health Center
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +85% · 28% of their budget
  • MI
    MACKINAC ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +60% · 43% of their budget
  • DI
    DRUMMOND ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +7% · 97% of their budget

Funded once

  • AC
    ALCONA CITIZENS FOR HEALTH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +76%
  • TS
    TEN SIXTEEN RECOVERY NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $44k · revenue +40%
  • CA
    COMPREHENSIVE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT PROGRAMgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $19k · revenue +46%
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.

1
Mymichigan Medical Group

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
2
Mclaren Greater Lansing

Mclaren health care corporation, along with its subsidiaries, will be michigan's best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
3
Mclaren Port Huron

Mclaren healthcare, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
4
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
5
Mclaren Northern Michigan

Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in health care as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
6
Mymichigan Medical Center Saginaw

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
7
Munson Medical Center

As a vital part of munson healthcare, munson medical center exists to deliver comprehensive quality care to patients in partnership with physicians.

Health
8
Mercy Health Partners

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.

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9
Trinity Health Grand Haven Hospital

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…

Health
10
Mymichigan Medical Center Alpena

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
11
Central Maine Medical Center

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
12
Mercy Medical Center

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mymichigan Medical Center Standish; 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.
04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 107 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/68
Grantees still filing
51/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Beaver Island Rural Health Center: $2,000,685 · HealthBeaver Island Rural Health CenterMACKINAC ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER: $2,000,000 · HealthMACKINAC ISLAND MEDICAL CENTERDRUMMOND ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER INC: $1,404,114 · HealthDRUMMOND ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER INC+50 more: $17,620,165 · Health+50 moreMid-Michigan District Health Dept: $977,694 · OtherMid-Michigan District Health DeptCOREWELL HEALTH: $962,303 · OtherCOREWELL HEALTHDHD #10: $610,195 · OtherOSF ST FRANCIS: $511,678 · Other+47 more: $11,141,131 · Other+47 moreLAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $85,305 · EducationMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationCOMPREHENSIVE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT PROGRAM: $19,332 · Public Safety & Disaster
Health$23,024,964Other$14,203,001Education$95,305Public Safety & Disaster$19,332

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBeaver Island Rural Health Center: $2,000,685 over 9y, 28% of budgetMACKINAC ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER: $2,000,000 over 9y, 43% of budgetDRUMMOND ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER INC: $1,404,114 over 9y, 97% of budgetMid-Michigan District Health Dept: $977,694 over 4y, 10% of budgetMACKINAC STRAITS HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $690,994 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetMYMICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER SAULT: $590,215 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHELEN NEWBERRY JOY HOSPITAL & HEALTHCARE CENTER: $542,312 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSchoolcraft Memorial Hospital: $492,194 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetHILLSDALE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $485,394 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetASPIRUS KEWEENAW HOSPITAL: $471,494 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetSHERIDAN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $466,694 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetMunising Memorial Hospital Association: $466,694 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetGRAND VIEW HOSPITAL WORKERS COMPENSATION TRUST: $466,494 over 9y, 24% of budgetMCKENZIE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL MCKENZIE HEALTH SYSTEM: $442,694 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetSCHEURER HOSPITAL: $442,694 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetEATON RAPIDS MEDICAL CENTER: $442,194 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetSPARROW EATON HOSPITAL: $442,094 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetDECKERVILLE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $442,094 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetASPIRUS IRON RIVER HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC: $442,094 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetMCLAREN CARO REGION: $442,094 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetHARBOR BEACH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $441,594 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetMARLETTE REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $441,594 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetSPARROW CLINTON HOSPITAL: $437,394 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetASCENSION BORGESS-LEE HOSPITAL: $437,394 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetMUNSON HEALTHCARE CHARLEVOIX HOSPITAL: $437,394 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetMYMICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER GLADWIN: $437,394 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetPAUL OLIVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $437,394 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetMUNSON HEALTHCARE GRAYLING: $437,394 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSPARROW CARSON HOSPITAL: $437,394 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetSPARROW IONIA HOSPITAL: $437,394 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetMYMICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER CLARE: $437,394 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetMUNSON HEALTHCARE: $429,869 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMUNSON HEALTHCARE MANISTEE HOSPITAL: $428,634 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBronson Lakeview Hospital: $427,594 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBronson South Haven Hospital: $427,594 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMCLAREN THUMB REGION: $426,994 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetMYMICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER STANDISH: $426,994 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetHILLS & DALES GENERAL HOSPITAL INC: $419,125 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetPORTAGE HEALTH AUXILIARY: $410,215 over 6y, 74% of budgetMYMICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER TAWAS: $410,215 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetASCENSION BORGESS ALLEGAN FOUNDATION: $410,215 over 6y, 61% of budgetBMH-WIND DOWN: $409,615 over 7y, 49% of budgetMUNSON HEALTHCARE OTSEGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $406,560 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMYMICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER WEST BRANCH: $389,181 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMYMICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER ALMA: $377,502 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMCLAREN CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $377,281 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDICKINSON HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $376,246 over 4y, 82% of budgetSTURGIS HOSPITAL INC: $370,852 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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 Beaver Island Rural Health Center ↗
  • Who funds MACKINAC ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DRUMMOND ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • 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 SPARROW EATON HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds DECKERVILLE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds ASPIRUS IRON RIVER HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC ↗
  • Who funds MCLAREN CARO REGION ↗
  • Who funds HARBOR BEACH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds MARLETTE REGIONAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds SPARROW CLINTON HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds ASCENSION BORGESS-LEE HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE CHARLEVOIX HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds MYMICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER GLADWIN ↗
  • 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 CLARE ↗
  • Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE ↗

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.

Michigan Health & Hos…West Michigan Regiona…Michigan Health Endow…Superior Health Found…Corewell Health Found…Tri-County Emergency …Michigan Physical Fit…Delta Dental FundDetroit & Wayne Count…Prevention MichiganCommunity Foundation …The Carls Foundation
Michigan Health & Hospital Association Dba MhaMI74.5× affinity34 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Michigan Center for Rural Health funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michigan Center for Rural Health. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Michigan Center for Rural Health?

    Find your warmest path to Michigan Center for Rural Health through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 107 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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