· Public charity
United Way of Marquette County
Focusing community resources to meet community needs the United Way of Marquette County works to advance the common good by connecting people with health and human care issues they are concerned about and to provide the oversight the community expects in creating lasting change in the lives in individuals and families.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 25 grants below total $230,416 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $238,988 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,572 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $142k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Greater Ishpeming Commission on Aging | $12,833 |
| Cancer Care of Marquette County | $12,438 |
| Caregiver Incentive Project | $12,412 |
| Northwoods Airlifeline | $12,263 |
| Marquette County Habitat for Humanity | $12,130 |
| Propylon Nonprofit Housing | $12,036 |
| Community Action Alger Marquette | $12,000 |
| Janzen House Inc | $11,536 |
| STAR Children's Bereavement Services | $11,399 |
| The Women's Center | $11,318 |
| Retired Senior Volunteer Program | $10,800 |
| Trillium House | $10,525 |
| Lake Superior Village Youth & Family Center | $9,378 |
| Great Lakes Recovery Centers Inc | $8,775 |
| Lutheran Social Services | $8,762 |
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 (FY17–25, $591k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +50% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- AMALGER MARQUETTE COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD9× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +50%
- TITHE ISHPEMING CANCER SOCIETY SERVING MARQUETTE CO9× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +101%
- LSLAKE SUPERIOR VILLAGE YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $99k · revenue +20% · 72% of their budget
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMY MILWAUKEE COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $14k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +46%
- CACHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF THE UPPER PENINSULA INCone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -16%
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.
To provide housing and end of life care and support to terminally ill individuals.
To provide housing and case management services for the homeless and mentally ill within the community.
Superior health support systems, inc. was formed for the purpose of providing accomodations and daily living services for persons over 60 years of age or impaired individuals in northern michigan. the organization qualifies as a "home for…
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
The mission of gw homeless services of northern michigan, inc is to provide safe, supportive shelter to individuals experiencing homelessness.the 2023 990 was for 10/1-12/31/23 due to an accounting period change.
Hospice care - wings of hope hospice and palliative care, inc. provides compassionate care in the later stages of life and support through the grief experience for individuals and families.
It is the mission of the evangelical homes of michigan, a health and human service ministry related to the united church of christ, to provide health and housing services to persons who are elderly in manner which respects their rights,…
Provide home ownership opportunities to low-income households and make repairs to existing homes for very low-income homeowners.
The Agency is licensed by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services as a full-service adoption and foster care agency for families located in northern Michigan.
Focusing community resources to meet community needs the United Way of Marquette County works to advance the common good by connecting people with health and human care issues they are concerned about and to provide the oversight the…
It is the mission of the evangelical homes of michigan, a health and human service ministry related to the united church of christ, to provide health and housing servcies to persons who are elderly in a manner which respects their rights,…
To eliminate sub-standard housing and homelessness from lapeer county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child and Family Services of the Upper Peninsula Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Caregiver Incentive Project. 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% 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 8% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 38 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 ALGER MARQUETTE COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD ↗
- Who funds THE ISHPEMING CANCER SOCIETY SERVING MARQUETTE CO ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUPERIOR VILLAGE YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Marquette and Alger Counties Inc ↗
- Who funds JANZEN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GREATER ISHPEMING COMMISSION ON AGING ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC MARQUETTE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DAVID AND THU BRULE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF MARQUETTE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM AT THE INN ↗
- Who funds PROPYLON NON-PROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUPERIOR HOSPICE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES RECOVERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds SUPERIOR WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds TRILLIUM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DIAL HELP INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TEACHING FAMILY HOMES UPPER MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Social Services of the Upper Peninsula Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CAREGIVER INCENTIVE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds LAKESTATE INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS AIRLIFELINE LTD ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF THE UPPER PENINSULA INC ↗
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: Superior Health Foundation · Community Foundation of Marquette County · Frazier Fund Inc · Phyllis & Max Reynolds Foundation · West End Health Foundation · Tourville Foundation · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation · Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation · Jx Gives Back Family Foundation Inc · L G Kaufman Endowment Foundation · James a Ruppe Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc
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 United Way of Marquette County 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.
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.
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