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Tourville Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$124k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$843k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Tourville Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesHealthHousing & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$124k50%
FY20248$56k38%
FY20239$49k56%
FY20228$75k50%
FY20217$64k43%
FY20207$45k57%
FY20192$21k50%
FY20188$35k88%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$193kHousing & Shelter$79kArts & Culture$59kHuman Services$42kHealth$39kAnimals$38kPhilanthropy$38kInternational$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Northern Michigan University Foundation$110,00051%
Northern Michigan University$78,0003n/a
Liberty Place Inc$35,00029%
Janzen House$30,000311%
Studio Art Quilt Assoc Inc$22,50050%
Propylon Non-Profit Housing Corporation$20,00025%
Trillium House Inc$20,00023%
Women's Center Inc$16,00040%
Real Cruzan Cats$15,00037%
Hospitality House of the Upper Peninsula$13,00021%
Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Tourville Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Northern Michigan University Foundation$110,00051%
Northern Michigan University$78,0003n/a
Liberty Place Inc$35,00029%
Janzen House$30,000311%
Studio Art Quilt Assoc Inc$22,50050%
Propylon Non-Profit Housing Corporation$20,00025%
Trillium House Inc$20,00023%
Women's Center Inc$16,00040%
Real Cruzan Cats$15,00037%
Hospitality House of the Upper Peninsula$13,00021%
Ruff Start Stx Inc$11,00038%
Bay Cliff Health Camp$10,0001n/a
Pasadena Humane$10,0001n/a
Women's Coalition of St Croix$10,0001n/a
Salvation Army$9,0004n/a
Room at the Inn$5,0001n/a
Door of Hope$5,0001n/a
World Ocean School Inc$5,00010%
Superior Advocacy Support Specialists$2,7001n/a
Ishpeming Ski Club Inc$2,5001n/a
Marquette Tennis Association$2,0001n/a
Lake Superior Community Ptnrshp Foundation$2,00014%
Upper Peninsula Children's Museum Incorporated$1,00010%
The Ishpeming Cancer Society Serving Marquette Co$1,00011%
Special Olympics Michigan Inc$1,00010%
Upper Peninsula Animal Welfare Shelter Inc$1,00010%
St Croix Animal Welfare Centerinc$1,00010%
Star Childrens Bereavement Services Inc$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($52k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tourville Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Northern Michigan University Foundation: $110,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetLiberty Place Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetJanzen House: $30,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetStudio Art Quilt Assoc Inc: $22,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPropylon Non-Profit Housing Corporation: $20,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetTrillium House Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetWomen's Center Inc: $16,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetReal Cruzan Cats: $15,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetHospitality House of the Upper Peninsula: $13,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRuff Start Stx Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetWorld Ocean School Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLake Superior Community Ptnrshp Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetUpper Peninsula Children's Museum Incorporated: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Ishpeming Cancer Society Serving Marquette Co: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSpecial Olympics Michigan Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUpper Peninsula Animal Welfare Shelter Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Croix Animal Welfare Centerinc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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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.

Frazier Fund IncMI28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Frazier Fund Inc · Community Foundation of Marquette County · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation · Phyllis & Max Reynolds Foundation · United Way of Marquette County · West End Health Foundation · Superior Health Foundation · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · L G Kaufman Endowment Foundation · Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc

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.

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How do I get to Tourville Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tourville 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.

About Tourville Foundation

How much does Tourville Foundation give?
Tourville Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $123,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Tourville Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Housing & Shelter (15%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are Tourville Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Northern Michigan University Foundation ($110k), Northern Michigan University ($78k), Liberty Place Inc ($35k).
Does Tourville Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tourville Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Tourville Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Frazier Fund Inc, Community Foundation of Marquette County, The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation.
Where is Tourville Foundation based?
Tourville Foundation is based in MI.

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 41 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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