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Superior Health Foundation

Our mission is to proactively support organizations and initiatives across the upper peninsula to improve health and well-being.

$987k
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$3.2MFood & Nutrition$1.4MHuman Services$528kYouth Development$151kHousing & Shelter$140kCommunity Improvement$125kRecreation & Sports$108kPhilanthropy$66kOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 35 grants below total $930,983, the rows itemized in this filing. The $987,280 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $56,297 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $357k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $494k
$13,640
Median grant
4
States reached
$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UPCAP: $322k → 13%LifeLine Pilots: $7k → 14%UPCAP: $322k → 13%Chippewa County Family Project: $23k → 13%Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly Upper Michigan Chapter: $10k → 14%LifeLine Pilots: $5k → 14%Upper Peninsula Veterans Community Action Team: $55k → 13%Upper Peninsula Veterans Community Action Team: $50k → 13%UPCAP: $38k → 13%Growing Forward Together: $49k → 14%Michigan Breastfeeding Network: $19k → 16%NORTHERN LIGHTS YMCA: $11k → 13%Northern Lights YMCA: $5k → 13%Greater Ishpeming Commission on Aging: $19k → 11%Pregnancy Services of Delta County: $5k → 13%SAIL: $6k → 11%Catholic Social Services of the Upper Peninsula: $70k → 11%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE UP: $48k → 11%Catholic Social Services of the Upper Peninsula: $30k → 11%Catholic Social Services of the Upper Peninsula: $25k → 11%YMCA of Marquette County: $20k → 11%Trillium House: $15k → 11%LAKE SUPERIOR HOSPICE: $15k → 11%Trillium House: $14k → 11%TEACHING FAMILY HOMES: $11k → 11%Trillium House: $10k → 11%Trillium House: $10k → 11%Trillium House: $10k → 11%Lake Superior Life Care & Hospice: $8k → 11%Lake Superior Hospice: $8k → 11%Lake Superior Life Care & Hospice: $7k → 11%Diocesan Council of Marquette MI Society of St Vincent de Paul: $5k → 11%Trillium House: $5k → 11%Trillium House: $5k → 11%Lake Superior Hospice: $5k → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 10% of Superior Health Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 79%.

Superior Health Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 37 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
42

Total granted

$4.6M
$821k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+14%

Still filing today

65%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • US
    UPCAP SERVICES INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $788k · revenue +11%
  • GL
    GREAT LAKES RECOVERY CENTERS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $667k · revenue +69%
  • MT
    MICHIGAN TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION
    2× · 2019–2023 · $425k · revenue +61% · 50% of their budget

Funded once

  • EU
    EASTERN UPPER PENINSULA OPIOID RESPONSE CONSORTIUM
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
  • WU
    WESTERN UPPER PENISULA DHD
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
  • AI
    ASPIRUS IRONWOOD HOSPITAL & CLINICS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $107k · revenue +56%
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
Midmichigan Health Services

To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.

Health
2
Mymichigan Medical Group

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
3
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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4
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
5
Mymichigan Medical Center Saginaw

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
6
Mercy Health Partners

We, mercy health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy health partners is a member of mercy health and trinity health.

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7
Great Lakes Bay Health Centers

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.

Health
8
Mclaren Northern Michigan

Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in health care as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
9
Mymichigan Medical Center Alpena

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
10
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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11
Michigan Center for Clinical Systems Improvement

The organization's mission is to support community-based, stakeholder driven training for care teams including physicians, care managers, care coordinators, medical assistants and behavioral health specialists; facilitate training and…

Health
12
Vitalcare Inc

To provide healthcare as you would expect for your own family.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upper Peninsula Health Care Solutions Inc; the most unlike its peers is West End Health Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 95 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
50/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $545,167 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYNorthcare Network: $225,020 · OtherNorthcare NetworkMARQUETTE-ALGER REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY: $214,171 · OtherMARQUETTE-ALGER REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVIC…WESTERN UPPER PENISULA DHD: $150,000 · OtherWESTERN UPPER PENISULA DHDFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN: $144,264 · OtherFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGANFORK FARMS FOUNDATION: $130,198 · OtherFORK FARMS FOUNDATION+45 more: $832,350 · Other+45 moreUPCAP SERVICES INC: $787,776 · Human ServicesUPCAP SERVICES INCCatholic Social Services of the Upper Peninsula Inc: $172,694 · Human ServicesCatholic Social Services of…GIVEDIRECTLY INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INCTRILLIUM HOUSE INC: $68,777 · Human ServicesGROWING FORWARD TOGETHER: $48,732 · Human Services+12 more: $187,567 · Human Services+12 moreGREAT LAKES RECOVERY CENTERS INC: $666,953 · HealthGREAT LAKES RECOVERY CENTE…UPPER PENINSULA HEALTH CARE SOLUTIONS INC: $168,846 · HealthUPPER PENINSULA HEALTH CAR…EASTERN UPPER PENINSULA OPIOID RESPONSE CONSORTIUM: $150,000 · HealthEASTERN UPPER PENINSULA OP…ASPIRUS IRONWOOD HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC: $107,000 · HealthASPIRUS IRONWOOD HOSPITAL …THE CAREGIVER INCENTIVE PROJECT: $79,146 · HealthTHE CAREGIVER INCENTIVE PR…Superior Connections Recovery Community Organization: $59,532 · Health+12 more: $141,130 · Health+12 moreMICHIGAN TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION: $425,000 · Public BenefitPARTRIDGE CREEK FARM INC: $227,856 · Food & NutritionINTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN INC: $11,518 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE COUNTY: $70,000 · PhilanthropyDICKINSON AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $19,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR DELTA COUNTY MICHIGAN: $13,900 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE UPPER PENINSULA: $10,250 · Philanthropy906 ADVENTURE TEAM: $22,000 · Youth DevelopmentLIVE LIFE LOUD RESOURCES: $20,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,241,170Human Services$1,415,546Health$1,372,607Public Benefit$425,000Food & Nutrition$239,374Philanthropy$113,150Youth Development$42,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUPCAP SERVICES INC: $787,776 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGREAT LAKES RECOVERY CENTERS INC: $666,953 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetMICHIGAN TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION: $425,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetPARTRIDGE CREEK FARM INC: $227,856 over 4y, 42% of budgetCatholic Social Services of the Upper Peninsula Inc: $172,694 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetUPPER PENINSULA HEALTH CARE SOLUTIONS INC: $168,846 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN: $144,264 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetASPIRUS IRONWOOD HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC: $107,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CAREGIVER INCENTIVE PROJECT: $79,146 over 4y, 67% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE COUNTY: $70,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTRILLIUM HOUSE INC: $68,777 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetSuperior Connections Recovery Community Organization: $59,532 over 2y, 13% of budgetGROWING FORWARD TOGETHER: $48,732 over 1y, 10% of budgetLAKE SUPERIOR HOSPICE ASSOCIATION: $42,685 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSchoolcraft Memorial Hospital: $36,461 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAKES COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $32,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEversight: $32,312 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC MARQUETTE COUNTY: $30,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCEDAR TREE: $25,640 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE ISHPEMING CANCER SOCIETY SERVING MARQUETTE CO: $25,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetWEST END HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetCHIPPEWA COUNTY FAMILY PROJECT INC: $22,800 over 1y, 11% of budgetDAR BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $22,095 over 2y, 2.2% of budget906 ADVENTURE TEAM: $22,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetHOPE ANIMAL-ASSISTED CRISIS RESPONSE: $21,300 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER INC: $21,287 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLIVE LIFE LOUD RESOURCES: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetDAVID AND THU BRULE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF MARQUETTE COUNTY: $19,996 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDICKINSON AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMICHIGAN BREASTFEEDING NETWORK: $18,909 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGREATER ISHPEMING COMMISSION ON AGING: $18,580 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetUNITE UP: $18,561 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP: $18,260 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHERN LIGHTS YMCA INC: $16,097 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDIAL HELP INCORPORATED: $15,370 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMichigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUPERIOR HEALTH SUPPORT SYSTEMSINC: $12,950 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN INC: $11,518 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUP HEALTH EDUCATION CORPORATION: $11,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIFELINE INC: $11,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGOGEBIC RANGE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $11,250 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetTEACHING FAMILY HOMES UPPER MICHIGAN INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE UPPER PENINSULA: $10,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY UPPER MICHIGAN CHAPTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMEDICAL CARE ACCESS COALITION OF DICKINSON / IRON COUNTIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetLIONS OF MICHIGAN SERVICE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE EASTERN UPPER PENINSULA: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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.

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.

Michigan Health Endow…West End Health Found…United Way of Marquet…Community Foundation …Phyllis & Max Reynold…Robert & Jeanine Dage…Ray & Peg Hirvonen Ch…Copper Shores Communi…Frazier Fund IncMichigan Center for R…Feeding America West …Community Foundation …
Michigan Health Endowment FundMI47.7× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Superior Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Superior Health Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Superior Health Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Superior Health 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 95 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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