· Private foundation
Roberts P & Ella B Hudson Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOSPICE OF THE EUP | $10,000 |
| SOO THEATRE PROJECT INC | $9,000 |
| BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP | $5,000 |
| SOO LOCKS CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| DIANE PEPPLER RES CENTER | $2,500 |
| GREAT LAKES SHIPWRECK SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| SAULT SHRINE CLUB | $2,500 |
| SAULT AREA ARTS COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE EUP | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| SAULT AREA SCHOOLS | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| CARE NET PREGNANCY OF THE EUP | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.
46 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- STSOO THEATRE PROJECT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +142%
- BCBAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +65%
- SLSOO LOCKS CHILDRENS MUSEUM4× · 2021–2024 · $17k · revenue ×68
Funded once
- LSLAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $11k
- CCCHIPPEWA COUNTY FAMILY PROJECT INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -17%
- PCPICKFORD COMMUNITY LIBRARYone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
The historical society of saginaw county is committed to serve the community by telling the continuing story of the people of the saginaw region through exploration, preservation and presentation of their historical and cultural heritage.
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 engage and inspire, encouraging stewardship of wildlife and water.
To provide high quality health care to individuals and community groups in Saginaw, Bay, and other nearby counties. Services are provided without regard to race, beliefs or ability to pay.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
The chippewa area history center works to preserve local history and make it available to the public.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
To preserve, record and maintain the historical information of the area between michigan's upper and lower peninsulas, known as michilimackinac.
Our mission is to make science, technology, engineering, and math (stem) come alive, and our vision is a community where all people value stem to inform decision making and enrich lives. (continued on schedule o)guiding principles: we help…
To provide exceptional health care services for all people in the Upper Great Lakes region regardless of ability to pay.
Enrich community life via the theatre and creative arts.
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 64 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 SOO THEATRE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP ↗
- Who funds SOO LOCKS CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MYMICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER SAULT ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA COUNTY CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SUPERIOR HEALTH SUPPORT SYSTEMSINC ↗
- Who funds SAULT AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA COUNTY FAMILY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES RECOVERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE EASTERN UPPER PENINSULA ↗
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: Eup Community Foundation Alliance I · Superior Health Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Roberts P & Ella B Hudson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roberts P & Ella B Hudson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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