· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
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 (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 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 +55% since the first grant, against +46% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AMALGER MARQUETTE COMMUNITY ACTION BOARD9× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +48%
- 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 -19%
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.
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.
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 38 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of Marquette County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Marquette County. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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