How much did SUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Human Services$1.4MHealth$1.4MPublic Benefit$425kFood & Nutrition$239kPhilanthropy$113kYouth Development$42kCrime & Legal$26kEducation$22kPublic Safety & Disaster$21kOther$2.2M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

bringbaragaindigent careadultmobilemarquettepatients

2019

volunteerschildrentherapytrainingeducationpatients

2020

preventionvapingcovidalzheimer'spurchasetrainingmobile

2021

addictionrecoverycampmedicinetherapyfacilityexpansion

2022

low-incometableteensuppliesmedicalexpandaccess

2023

youtheyeestablishmedicalequipmentexpansionbehavioral

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k10 grants · $80k
$10k–50k20 grants · $357k
$50k–250k5 grants · $494k

$13,640

Median grant

States reached

$47M

Total assets

Largest grants

GiveDirectly$150,000
Michigan State University - Dept of Peds & Human Develop$135,930
Great Lakes Recovery Centers Inc$80,000
Fork Farms Foundation$65,099
Upper Peninsula Health Care Solutions Inc$62,680
Growing Forward Together$48,732
OSF St Francis$29,300
Catholic Social Services of the Upper Peninsula$25,000
Superior Child Advocacy Center$24,948
Gogebic Community College$24,923
Live Life Loud Resources$20,000
Marquette Alger RESA$20,000
Greater Ishpeming Commission on Aging$18,580
Unite UP$18,561
Women's Center Inc$15,028

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of SUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

SUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 7.7% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.7M · 38 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.7M

$851k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%

+26%

Still filing today

66%

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $344k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

UP
Upper Peninsula Veterans Community Action Team
3× · 2021–2023 · $788k · revenue +61%
GL
Great Lakes Recovery Centers Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $667k · revenue +69%
MM
MPTA Michigan Transportation Connection
2× · 2019–2023 · $425k · revenue +119% · 50% of their budget

Funded once

EU
Eastern Upper Peninsula Opioid Response Consortium
one grant, 2021 · $150k
WU
Western Upper Peninsula Health Department
one grant, 2021 · $150k
AI
Aspirus Ironwood Hospital & Clinics Inc
one grant, 2018 · $107k · revenue +25%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Mymichigan Health

Creating healthy communities together by providing excellent health services to improve the quality of life for our communities.

Health

Michigan Health & Hospital Association

To promote the interests of the health care industry.

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Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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Mymichigan Home Care

Creating healthy communities together by providing excellent health services to improve the quality of life for people in our communities.

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Michigan State Medical Society

Promote a health care environment that supports physicians in caring for and enhancing the health of michigan citizens through science, quality, and ethics in the practice of medicine.

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Mackinac Straits Health Foundation

To provide support to mackinac straits health system in order to improve the health status of the communities it serves.

Health

Michigan Health Leadership Fund

To advance the well-being of michigan residents through the promotion of sound public policies and responsible legislation. the purpose of these activities is to promote policies that strengthen the michigan health care system.

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Regional Hospice Services Inc

Provide hospice care to terminally ill patients in northern wisconsin and michigan's upper peninsula.

Health

Mymichigan Health Foundation

To enhance the broad healthcare purpose of mymichigan health by raising funds and public support, and by funding mymichigan health services, programs, projects and initiatives that further the exempt purposes of mymichigan health and its…

Health

Ingham Health Plan Corporation

To ensure access to health care for low-income persons.

Health

Care of Southeastern Michigan

To strengthen resiliency in people and their communities through prevention, education, and services that improve the quality of life

Health

Michigan Center for Clinical

Mi-ccsi is a non-profit member organization and quality improvement consortium that partners to better care through evidence-based trainings, collaborative and customized approaches and measurable outcomes.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mymichigan Medical Center Sault and the most unlike its peers is Teaching Family Homes. 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 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%2/95

the rest of the field

263/3,799

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.

06the grantee network

64 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

63/64

Grantees still filing

51/64

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,241,170Human Services$1,415,546Health$1,372,607Public Benefit$425,000Food & Nutrition$239,374Philanthropy$113,150Youth Development$42,000

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.

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.

Michigan Health Endowment FundMI48.8× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Michigan Health Endowment Fund · United Way of Marquette County · West End Health Foundation · Copper Shores Community · Robert & Jeanine Dagenais · Community Foundation of Marquette · Michigan Center for Rural Health · Feeding America West Michigan · Phyllis & Max Reynolds Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast · Frazier Fund Inc · Michigan Health & Hospital Association

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 organisation SUPERIOR HEALTH 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Caregiver Incentive Project.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 834247038 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Caregiver Incentive Project, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 67% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Superior Health Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Superior Health Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

64 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Superior Health Foundation?

More from the funding graph

SUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

64 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Superior Health Foundation?

More from the funding graph