· Private foundation
West End Health Foundation
To provide funding for health and wellness solutions in western Marquette County.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Great Lakes Recovery Center | $60,000 |
| Greater Ishpeming Commission of Aging | $25,410 |
| Republic Michigamme Schools | $25,000 |
| NICE Community Schools | $25,000 |
| Negaunee Public Schools | $25,000 |
| Ishpeming 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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Start the Cycle | $10,000 |
| Courage Inc | $10,000 |
| Ishpeming Cancer Society | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GLGREAT LAKES RECOVERY CENTERS INC6× · 2017–2024 · $167k · revenue +69%
- USUPCAP SERVICES INC4× · 2017–2020 · $66k · revenue +69%
- SHSUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- SCSuperior Connections Recovery Comm Orgone grant, 2023 · $30k
- BCBlue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +349%
- ISIshpming Ski ClubTraining Facilityone grant, 2022 · $10k
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 high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
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.
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.
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.
To provide personal and compassionate support to cancer patients and their caregivers in our community.
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
We advocate and facilitate the development of a network of multipurpose recreational trails in Northern Lower Michigan.
Non-profit business accelerator, providing support support and services to innovators, inventors, researchers and entrepreneurs.
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.
The mission of harm reduction is to reduce substance abuse and related activities in a respectful manner in collaboration with the user
Our mission at Marinette County Elderly Services is to assist older persons in maintaining a longer, healthier, and more fulfilled life.
To facilitate connecting the Leelanau county community of seniors with services and activities that promote a healthy independent and fulfilled lifestyle while aging.
How this is measured
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 96 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 GREAT LAKES RECOVERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds START THE CYCLE ↗
- Who funds UPCAP SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER ISHPEMING COMMISSION ON AGING ↗
- Who funds THE ISHPEMING CANCER SOCIETY SERVING MARQUETTE CO ↗
- Who funds PARTRIDGE CREEK FARM INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC MARQUETTE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation ↗
- Who funds BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds My Community Dental Centers Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUPERIOR COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP 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 · Phyllis & Max Reynolds Foundation · United Way of Marquette County · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Tourville Foundation · Frazier Fund Inc · Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation · Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc · L G Kaufman Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization West End Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from West End Health Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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