· Private foundation
Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $278k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $213k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAVID THU BRULE YMCA MARQUETTE COUN | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $113,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| MARQUETTE COUNTY FAIR | $40,000 |
| SHIRAS INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MARQUETTE | $25,000 |
| MARQUETTE MARITIME MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| TRILLIUM HOUSE | $15,315 |
| ELLIOTT MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| MARTIN ARTS | $15,000 |
| SUPERIOR CENTRAL SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| CANCER CARE OF MQT CO | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| FEDING AMERICA SW MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $558k 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
- MMMARQUETTE MARITIME MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +224%
- FUFINLANDIA UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2022 · $66k · revenue +39%
- BCBAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- COCITY OF MARQUETTEone grant, 2023 · $100k
- POPBS OF SOUTH FLORIDAone grant, 2020 · $5k
- MLMARQUETTE LIONS CLUBone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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 preserve, record and maintain the historical information of the area between michigan's upper and lower peninsulas, known as michilimackinac.
Increase awareness of the fine arts through films
To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.
To enrich the communities of Southeastern Michigan in fostering excellence and innovation to our community in the performance of orchestral music to educate current and future audiences
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 stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.
To educate the public on the history of Manistee County
Preserving the history of our area brings an understanding to the past and present, and provides a guide for the future. we not only maintain exhibits, artifacts and a research library, we provide a forum for engaging the community and…
FLSP was established May 25, 1992 and functions privately, as a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, to promote the wise use and conservation of the Ludington State Park, one of the most beautiful state parks ever.
To produce superb classical music in michigan's upper peninsula.
Lake michigan conservation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Noquemanon Trails Network Council and the most unlike its peers is Start the Cycle. 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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 94 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 MARQUETTE MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FINLANDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP ↗
- Who funds TRILLIUM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MARQUETTE COUNTY FAIR ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY CHILDRENS ART PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NOQUEMANON TRAILS NETWORK COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SUPERIOR STRING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SHIRAS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARQUETTE BEAUTIFICATION & RESTORATION COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds Treasure Coast Youth Symphony Inc ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM BONIFAS FINE ARTS CENTER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
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.