· Private foundation
Phyllis & Max Reynolds Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF MARQUETTE COUNTY | $21,000 |
| NORTHERN LIGHTS CHILD ADVOCACY | $15,000 |
| TRILLIUM HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| THE NMU FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SUPERIOR ARTS YOUTH THEATER | $7,500 |
| WOMEN'S CENTER | $5,000 |
| ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ISHPEMING CANCER SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| MARQUETTE CHAPTER OF NATL AMBUCS | $4,500 |
| SUPERIOR STRING ALLIANCE | $3,500 |
| TIP OF THE MITT JUNIOR GOLF ASSOC | $3,000 |
| PETER WHITE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $3,000 |
| SACRED EARTH FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| UPPER PENINSULA CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| HIGH ROCKS EDUCATION CORPORATION | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 18 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WCWOMEN'S CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +145%
- THTRILLIUM HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +73%
- UPUPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTEone grant, 2023 · $25k
- MEMAPS EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $25k
- MRMARQUETTE-ALGER REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCYone grant, 2018 · $9k
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.
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.
To stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
To preserve, record and maintain the historical information of the area between michigan's upper and lower peninsulas, known as michilimackinac.
Non-profit business accelerator, providing support support and services to innovators, inventors, researchers and entrepreneurs.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
To engage and inspire, encouraging stewardship of wildlife and water.
To promote and advance economic and workforce development by working with area business leaders to determine workforce needs and appropriate use of resources. To promote and advance education by working for systemic change in area school…
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
To promote cooperative medical services throughout marquette county and the upper peninsula of michigan that would provide a continuum of care for qualifying, uninsured, and/or under-insured persons.
Up land conservancy protects land in michigan's upper peninsula by owning it as nature preserves and working forest reserves, and through conservation easements(perpetual, voluntary agreements that guard the conservation values of the…
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 56 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRILLIUM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SUPERIOR STRING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SUPERIOR ARTS YOUTH THEATER ↗
- Who funds THE ISHPEMING CANCER SOCIETY SERVING MARQUETTE CO ↗
- Who funds SACRED EARTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROOM AT THE INN ↗
- Who funds THE HIGH ROCKS EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Marquette and Alger Counties Inc ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY CHILDRENS ART PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MARQUETTE BEAUTIFICATION & RESTORATION COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds MARQUETTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds PETER WHITE PUBLIC LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds TIP OF THE MITT JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Frazier Fund Inc · L G Kaufman Endowment Foundation · Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation · Superior Health Foundation · United Way of Marquette County · Community Foundation of Marquette County · West End Health Foundation · Tourville Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Phyllis & Max Reynolds Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Phyllis & Max Reynolds Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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