How much did WEST END HEALTH FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of WEST END HEALTH FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

summer athleticathletic training

2019

fall

2020

fallspringnegauneeniceishpeming

2021

fall programmaticspring cyclecycle capitalproactivebikeseniornegaunee

2022

capitalproactive youthoutreachshorebikementalishpeming

2023

programmingdentaloutreachconferenceishpeming

2024

food pantryupgradesrescuementalprogrammingsummerequipment

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

03FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k31 grants · $68k
$10k–50k15 grants · $245k
$50k–250k1 grant · $60k

$2,750

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants

Great Lakes Recovery Center$60,000
Greater Ishpeming Commission of Aging$25,410
NICE Community Schools$25,000
Republic Michigamme Schools$25,000
Ishpeming Public Schools$25,000
Negaunee Public Schools$25,000
Marquette County Health Department$18,673
UP Children's Therapy$16,500
Partridge Creek Farm$12,750
Lakeview School Garden$11,840
Superior Child Advocacy Center$10,000
Start the Cycle$10,000
Ishpeming Cancer Society$10,000
Marquette County Habitat for Humanity$10,000
West End Township - EMS$10,000

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — 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.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.6M · 53 repeat orgs$223k to everyone else

53 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$174k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%

+80%

Still filing today

26%

18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther

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

U
UPDON
4× · 2017–2020 · $66k · revenue +61%
SH
Superior Health Foundation
6× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +69%
IC
Ishpeming Cancer Society
4× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +200%

Funded once

SC
Superior Connections Recovery Comm Org
one grant, 2023 · $30k
BC
Blue Cross Blue Shield of MI Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +349%
IT
Ishpeming Township
one grant, 2018 · $10k

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 Lakes and Streams

Preservation and protection of michigan inland lakes and streams

Environment

Upper Peninsula Health Care

To create opportunities of viability for health care providers in the upper peninsula of michigan and to improve access to quality health services for residents within their communities.

Health

Midland County Cancer Society

To provide personal and compassionate support to cancer patients and their caregivers in our community.

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Michigan Community Capital

The mission of michigan community capital is to provide low-cost, flexible financial products coupled with advisory services to create and preserve affordable housing and invest in job-creating, community-driven economic development…

Community Improvement

Heart of West Michigan United Way

To impact lives in west michigan by energizing and inspiring people and organizations to make a difference through donations and volunteerism. the most significant activity is raising funds so agency providers and internal programs can…

Philanthropy

Invest Up

To enhance the vitality of the communities affected by the michigan's upper peninsula by leveraging local resources with capital and expertise and fostering economic opportunity throughout the area.

Community Improvement

Little Traverse Conservancy Inc

To protect the natural diversity and beauty of northern Michigan by preserving significant land and scenic areas, and fostering appreciation and understanding of the environment.

Environment

Innovation Marquette Enterprise Corporation

Non-profit business accelerator, providing support support and services to innovators, inventors, researchers and entrepreneurs.

Community Improvement

Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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Pace North

A provider of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) which is a community-based, long-term care delivery program that provides comprehensive, coordinated, managed care to eligible participants.

Health

Upper Peninsula Family Solutions Inc

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.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Copper Shores Community and the most unlike its peers is Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation. 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 24 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/46

the rest of the field

39/570

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.

05the grantee network

25 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)

25/25

Grantees still filing

22/25

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,528,355Health$112,319Human Services$71,249Youth Development$70,032Food & Nutrition$34,850Recreation & Sports$2,275Housing & Shelter$2,000Arts & Culture$1,200

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.

Superior Health FoundationMI31× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 WEST END 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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: Partridge Creek Farm.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 7.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 463382040 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 Partridge Creek Farm, 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

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
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 West End Health Foundation?

Find your warmest path to West End 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.

WEST END 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?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to West End Health Foundation?

More from the funding graph

WEST END 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?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to West End Health Foundation?

More from the funding graph