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Michigan Snowmobile & Orv Association

To develop a common appreciation, understanding and knowledge of snowmobiling and orv riding and recreation in the state of michigan.

$242k
Granted FY2023
18
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2023.

Recreation & Sports$929kEnvironment$16k
02FY2023 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $234,615, the rows itemized in this filing. The $241,618 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,003 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k6 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $191k
$12,186
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY22–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PETOSKEY SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $13k → 9%KALKASKA SAND & SNOW: $17k → 9%NORTHWEST ORV ASSN: $16k → 10%WEST MI SNOWMOBILE COUNCIL: $15k → 10%SORVA OF ALGER COUNTY: $24k → 11%MOOSE COUNTRY SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $13k → 11%CHEBOYGAN TRAIL BLAZERS: $19k → 12%EDWARDSBURG SNOW CLUB: $14k → 12%NORMENCO SPORTSMAN CLUB: $16k → 12%SPORTSMAN ORV ASSN OF DELTA CO: $18k → 13%SENEY SNOWMOBILE ASSOCIATION: $20k → 13%CHIPPEWA SNO CATS: $18k → 13%CADILLAC WINTER PROMOTIONS: $21k → 13%TRI COUNTY SNOWMOBILE & ORV: $11k → 13%BENZIE MANISTEE SNOWBIRDS: $14k → 13%PARADISE AREA NIGHTRIDERS: $14k → 13%GREAT LAKES DUAL SPORTERS: $12k → 14%GREATER GRAYLING SNOWMOBILE ASSN: $14k → 14%LES CHENAUX SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $13k → 14%SILVER LAKE REC ASSN: $22k → 14%WEST SHORE SNOWMOBILE COUNCIL: $10k → 15%TAHQUAMENON AREA SNOWMOBILE ASSN: $15k → 16%ST HELEN SNOWPACKERS SNOW & ORV CLUB: $15k → 16%CYCLE CONSERVATION CLUB: $12k → 16%OGEMAW HILLS SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $24k → 16%GOGEBIC RANGE TRAIL AUTHORITY: $15k → 17%HUDSONIRON AREA TOURIST ASSOCIATION: $24k → 23%ALLEGAN SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $16k → 10%UP SANDSTORMERS: $19k → 11%UP SNOPHYLERS: $16k → 13%SCHOOLCRAFT CO MOTORIZED TRAILS: $19k → 13%IRON RANGE TRAIL CLUB: $12k → 13%NORTH COUNTRY SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $12k → 14%CURTIS AREA CHAMBER: $19k → 14%SNO VALLEY RIDERS: $15k → 14%SNOWBUSTERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $11k → 15%UP THUNDER RIDERS: $18k → 17%TRAILRIDERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $16k → 23%TRAILRIDERS OF MARQUETTE: $11k → 11%CHIPPEWA SNOW CHASERS: $20k → 13%NORTH COUNTRY SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $10k → 14%KEWEENAW TRAIL SERVICES: $20k → 14%HOUGHTON LAKE SNOW GROOMERS: $11k → 16%DRUMMOND ISLAND OFF ROAD CLUB: $18k → 13%GOGEBIC AREA GROOMING: $22k → 14%KEWEENAW ATV: $15k → 14%SAULT STE MARIE SNOWMOBILE ASSN: $18k → 13%BIG BAY 550: $11k → 11%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.

6%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$58k · 3 repeat orgs$887k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
47

Total granted

$58k
$679k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-37%
0%

Still filing today

0%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $208k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Recreation & SportsEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • NC
    NORTH COUNTRY SNOWMOBIL CLUB INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $22k · revenue -37%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2022–2023 · $22k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2022–2023 · $14k

Funded once

  • SO
    SORVA OF ALGER COUNTY
    one grant, 2022 · $24k
  • SL
    SILVER LAKE REC ASSN
    one grant, 2022 · $22k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $22k
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
Pere Marquette Snowmobile Club Inc

Maintain & improve pere marquette michigan area snowmobile trails.

Recreation & Sports
2
Willow Creek Snowmobile Club Inc

trail maintenance & improvement to lessen gov't burden

Environment
3
Seven Lakes Snowmobile Club

Recreation

Recreation & Sports
4
Lake Louise Snowmachine Club Inc

Promote safe snowmobiling and trail use.

Recreation & Sports
5
Brantingham Snowmobile Club Inc

Snowmobile trail grooming in northern new york

Recreation & Sports
6
Williamson Driftriders Snowmobile

We provide snowmobilers trail creation

Education
7
Crane Lake Voyageurs Snowmobile Club

Maintain and improve snowmobile trails

Recreation & Sports
8
Green Mountain Sno Dogs

Create a positive snow mobile experience through the maintenance of trails for snow mobilers & hikers.

Recreation & Sports
9
Range Trail Committee

Promote the sport of snowmobiling.

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10
Northeast Kingdom Snow Blasters Inc

To provide safe and well kept snowmobile trails throughout our area.

Recreation & Sports
11
Benton County Snowmobile Club Inc
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12
South Warren Snowmobile Club Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Les Cheneaux Snowmobile Club; 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.
04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/28
Grantees still filing
11/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OGEMAW HILLS SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $24,000 · OtherSORVA OF ALGER COUNTY: $24,000 · OtherHUDSONIRON AREA TOURIST ASSOCIATION: $24,000 · OtherNORTH COUNTRY SNOWMOBIL CLUB INC: $22,314 · OtherSILVER LAKE REC ASSN: $22,239 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $22,001 · Other+39 more: $510,775 · Other+39 moreCADILLAC WINTER PROMOTIONS INC: $20,606 · Recreation & SportsCADILLAC WINTER PROMOTIONS …Keweenaw Trails Services INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsKeweenaw Trails Services IN…SENEY SNOWMOBILE ASSOCIATION: $19,681 · Recreation & SportsSENEY SNOWMOBILE ASSOCIATIO…UP THUNDER RIDERS INC: $18,000 · Recreation & SportsUP THUNDER RIDERS INCSAULT STE MARIE SNOWMOBILE ASSOCIATION: $17,893 · Recreation & SportsSAULT STE MARIE SNOWMOBILE …TRAILRIDERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $15,772 · Recreation & SportsTRAILRIDERS SNOWMOBILE CLUBNORMENCO SPORTSMENS CLUB INC: $15,750 · Recreation & SportsNORMENCO SPORTSMENS CLUB IN…Gogebic Range Trail Authority Inc: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsGogebic Range Trail Authori…LES CHENEAUX SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $13,198 · Recreation & SportsLES CHENEAUX SNOWMOBILE CLU…PETOSKEY SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC: $12,500 · Recreation & SportsPETOSKEY SNOWMOBILE CLUB IN…GREAT LAKES DUAL SPORTERS: $11,660 · Recreation & SportsHOUGHTON LAKE TRAIL GROOMERS: $11,125 · Recreation & SportsWEST SHORE SNOWMOBILE COUNCIL: $10,114 · Recreation & SportsUP Central Trails Inc: $9,600 · Recreation & SportsHIAWATHA TRAILS INC: $8,487 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $7,260 · Recreation & SportsCHEBOYGAN TRAIL BLAZERS INC: $19,052 · EnvironmentDrummond Island Off Road Club: $17,573 · EnvironmentIRON RANGE TRAIL CLUB INC: $12,186 · EnvironmentCHIPPEWA SNOW CHASERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $20,000 · Public Benefit
Other$649,329Recreation & Sports$226,646Environment$48,811Public Benefit$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOGEMAW HILLS SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $24,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetCADILLAC WINTER PROMOTIONS INC: $20,606 over 1y, 28% of budgetCHIPPEWA SNOW CHASERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetKeweenaw Trails Services INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSENEY SNOWMOBILE ASSOCIATION: $19,681 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetCHEBOYGAN TRAIL BLAZERS INC: $19,052 over 1y, 84% of budgetUP THUNDER RIDERS INC: $18,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSAULT STE MARIE SNOWMOBILE ASSOCIATION: $17,893 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTRAILRIDERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $15,772 over 1y, 26% of budgetNORMENCO SPORTSMENS CLUB INC: $15,750 over 1y, 12% of budgetTAHQUAMENON AREA SNOWMOBILE ASSOCIATION INC: $15,105 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetGREATER GRAYLING SNOWMOBILE ASSOCIATION: $14,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMoose Country Sno-Mobile Club: $13,450 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetLES CHENEAUX SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $13,198 over 1y, 15% of budgetPETOSKEY SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC: $12,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetIRON RANGE TRAIL CLUB INC: $12,186 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetHOUGHTON LAKE TRAIL GROOMERS: $11,125 over 1y, 12% of budgetWEST SHORE SNOWMOBILE COUNCIL: $10,114 over 1y, 10% of budgetSUPERIOR SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetHIAWATHA TRAILS INC: $8,487 over 1y, 14% of budgetROSCO HIGGINS TRAIL CRUISERS: $7,260 over 1y, 13% of budgetPRESQUE ISLE SNO-TRAILS: $6,700 over 1y, 12% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Michigan Snowmobile & Orv Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michigan Snowmobile & Orv Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 65 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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