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Phyllis & Max Reynolds Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$106k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$202kRecreation & Sports$125kArts & Culture$124kHealth$111kEducation$57kFood & Nutrition$54kPhilanthropy$47kEnvironment$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
$3,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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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.

area typical 10%TRILLIUM HOUSE INC: $10k → 11%TRILLIUM HOUSE INC: $10k → 11%TRILLIUM HOUSE INC: $10k → 11%TRILLIUM HOUSE INC: $5k → 11%TRILLIUM HOUSE INC: $5k → 11%TRILLIUM HOUSE INC: $5k → 11%TRILLIUM HOUSE INC: $5k → 11%TRILLIUM HOUSE INC: $5k → 11%TRILLIUM HOUSE INC: $4k → 11%MARQUETTE ALGER RECONCILIATION SERVICE: $3k → 11%LAKE SUPERIOR HOSPICE ASSOCIATION: $2k → 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$730k · 33 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
19

Total granted

$730k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+77%

Still filing today

55%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEmploymentEnvironmentRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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

  • WC
    WOMEN'S CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +145%
  • TH
    TRILLIUM HOUSE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +73%
  • UP
    UPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • ME
    MAPS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • MR
    MARQUETTE-ALGER REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY
    one 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.

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
Lake Superior Community Partnership Inc

To stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.

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2
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Michilimackinac Historical Society

To preserve, record and maintain the historical information of the area between michigan's upper and lower peninsulas, known as michilimackinac.

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4
Innovation Marquette Enterprise Corporation

Non-profit business accelerator, providing support support and services to innovators, inventors, researchers and entrepreneurs.

Community Improvement
5
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment
6
Lake Superior Center

To engage and inspire, encouraging stewardship of wildlife and water.

Environment
7
Lake Superior Community Ptnrshp Foundation

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…

Employment
8
Michigan Legacy Art Park

Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.

Arts & Culture
9
Medical Care Access Coalition Inc

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.

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10
Upper Peninsula Land Conservancy

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…

Environment
11
Harbor Country Chamber of Commerce

To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.

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12
Leelanau Conservancy

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Marquette County; the most unlike its peers is Marquette Maritime Museum. 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

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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
21/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $135,000 · OtherWOMEN'S CENTER INCYMCA OF MARQUETTE COUNTY: $120,000 · OtherYMCA OF MARQUETTE COUNTYCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE: $25,000 · OtherMAPS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherMARQUETTE AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $24,200 · OtherTHE ISHPEMING CANCER SOCIETY SERVING MARQUETTE CO: $22,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMY OF MARQUETTE: $20,500 · Other+33 more: $215,500 · Other+33 moreUPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED: $45,000 · Arts & CultureUPPER PENINSULA…SUPERIOR STRING ALLIANCE INC: $28,500 · Arts & CultureSUPERIOR STRING…SUPERIOR ARTS YOUTH THEATER: $23,000 · Arts & CultureSUPERIOR ARTS Y…LIBERTY CHILDRENS ART PROJECT: $12,000 · Arts & CultureLIBERTY CHILDRE…MARQUETTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $4,000 · Arts & CultureTRILLIUM HOUSE INC: $58,500 · Human ServicesMARQUETTE ALGER RECONCILIATION SERVICE INC: $3,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesSACRED EARTH FOUNDATION: $22,000 · EnvironmentMARQUETTE BEAUTIFICATION & RESTORATION COMMITTEE INC: $11,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE COUNTY: $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HIGH ROCKS EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION: $22,000 · EmploymentLAKESTATE INDUSTRIES: $3,000 · EmploymentROOM AT THE INN: $22,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$587,700Arts & Culture$118,500Human Services$63,500Environment$33,000Philanthropy$30,000Employment$25,000Housing & Shelter$22,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWOMEN'S CENTER INC: $135,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetTRILLIUM HOUSE INC: $58,500 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetUPPER PENINSULA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCORPORATED: $45,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE COUNTY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSUPERIOR STRING ALLIANCE INC: $28,500 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetSUPERIOR ARTS YOUTH THEATER: $23,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetTHE ISHPEMING CANCER SOCIETY SERVING MARQUETTE CO: $22,500 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetSACRED EARTH FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetROOM AT THE INN: $22,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetTHE HIGH ROCKS EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION: $22,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP: $18,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Marquette and Alger Counties Inc: $14,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetLIBERTY CHILDRENS ART PROJECT: $12,000 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetMARQUETTE BEAUTIFICATION & RESTORATION COMMITTEE INC: $11,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetMARQUETTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $6,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetPETER WHITE PUBLIC LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT FUND: $6,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTIP OF THE MITT JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $6,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMARQUETTE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMARQUETTE ALGER RECONCILIATION SERVICE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetLAKE SUPERIOR HOSPICE ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MARQUETTE COUNTY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGREAT LAKES RECOVERY CENTERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARQUETTE MARITIME MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.5% 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 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.

Frazier Fund IncMI41.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%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 · 0–60%
    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

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    How do I get to Phyllis & Max Reynolds Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Phyllis & Max Reynolds Foundation 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 56 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-PF 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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