· Public charity
Michigan Snowmobile & Orv Association
To develop a common appreciation, understanding and knowledge of snowmobiling and orv riding and recreation in the state of michigan.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $234,615 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $241,618 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,003 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k6 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $191k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OGEMAW HILLS SNOWMOBILE CLUB | $24,000 |
| HUDSONIRON AREA TOURIST ASSOCIATION | $24,000 |
| KEWEENAW TRAIL SERVICES | $20,000 |
| GRAND TRAVERSE SNOWMOBILE CLUB | $18,975 |
| UP THUNDER RIDERS | $18,000 |
| WEST MI SNOWMOBILE COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| IOSCO CO PARKS & REC | $13,690 |
| PETOSKEY SNOWMOBILE CLUB | $12,500 |
| IRON RANGE TRAIL CLUB | $12,186 |
| NORTH COUNTRY SNOWMOBILE CLUB | $12,014 |
| BIG BAY 550 | $10,580 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GREAT LAKES 4WHEEL DRIVE | $9,222 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,868 |
| DRIFTSKIPPERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB | $7,262 |
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 (FY22–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 76% 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.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $208k 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
- NCNORTH COUNTRY SNOWMOBIL CLUB INC2× · 2022–2023 · $22k · revenue -37%
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2022–2023 · $22k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2022–2023 · $14k
Funded once
- SOSORVA OF ALGER COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $24k
- SLSILVER LAKE REC ASSNone grant, 2022 · $22k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $22k
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.
Maintain & improve pere marquette michigan area snowmobile trails.
trail maintenance & improvement to lessen gov't burden
Recreation
Promote safe snowmobiling and trail use.
Snowmobile trail grooming in northern new york
We provide snowmobilers trail creation
Maintain and improve snowmobile trails
Create a positive snow mobile experience through the maintenance of trails for snow mobilers & hikers.
Promote the sport of snowmobiling.
To provide safe and well kept snowmobile trails throughout our area.
We are an organization committed to the safe operation of snowmobiles. The organization maintains trails by grooming and providing signage. Additionally, safety courses are conducted year round to promote safe snowmobiling as well as how…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Les Cheneaux Snowmobile Club and the most unlike its peers is Drummond Island Off Road 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 20 years old; the field is 23. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund close more than the field — 10% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 65 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 OGEMAW HILLS SNOWMOBILE CLUB ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY SNOWMOBIL CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CADILLAC WINTER PROMOTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA SNOW CHASERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB ↗
- Who funds Keweenaw Trails Services INC ↗
- Who funds SENEY SNOWMOBILE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHEBOYGAN TRAIL BLAZERS INC ↗
- Who funds UP THUNDER RIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds SAULT STE MARIE SNOWMOBILE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Drummond Island Off Road Club ↗
- Who funds TRAILRIDERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB ↗
- Who funds NORMENCO SPORTSMENS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds TAHQUAMENON AREA SNOWMOBILE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Gogebic Range Trail Authority Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER GRAYLING SNOWMOBILE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Moose Country Sno-Mobile Club ↗
- Who funds LES CHENEAUX SNOWMOBILE CLUB ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Michigan Snowmobile & Orv Association 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.