Michigan · Private foundation
Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $843k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2024
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 49
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $13M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 46 | $843k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $640k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $223k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $163k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 49 | $165k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $173k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 47 | $166k | 30% |
| FY2017 | 38 | $171k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Marquette | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Marquette Maritime Museum | $90,000 | 8 | 13% |
| Finlandia University | $66,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Bay Cliff Health Camp | $65,220 | 8 | 0% |
| Trillium House Inc | $54,565 | 7 | 3% |
| Marquette County Fair | $51,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Liberty Childrens Art Project | $36,900 | 8 | 14% |
| Noquemanon Trails Network Council | $35,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Feeding America West Michigan | $34,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Superior String Alliance Inc | $31,000 | 8 | 10% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 57 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Phyllis & Max Reynolds Foundation · Frazier Fund Inc · Superior Health Foundation · West End Health Foundation · L G Kaufman Endowment Foundation · Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation · Tourville Foundation · United Way of Marquette County · Community Foundation of Marquette County · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation · Katers Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation
- How much does Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation give?
- Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $843,115 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 49 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Human Services (14%), Recreation & Sports (14%).
- Who are Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: City of Marquette ($100k), Marquette Maritime Museum ($90k), Finlandia University ($66k).
- Does Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Phyllis & Max Reynolds Foundation, Frazier Fund Inc, Superior Health Foundation.
- Where is Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation based?
- Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation is based in MI.
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