· Private foundation
West End Health Foundation
To provide funding for health and wellness solutions in western Marquette County.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Great Lakes Recovery Center | $60,000 |
| Greater Ishpeming Commission of Aging | $25,410 |
| Negaunee Public Schools | $25,000 |
| Republic Michigamme Schools | $25,000 |
| Ishpeming Public Schools | $25,000 |
| NICE Community 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 |
| Marquette County Habitat for Humanity | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Start the Cycle | $10,000 |
| Courage Inc | $10,000 |
| Ishpeming Cancer Society | $10,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
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
- 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%
- COCity of Ishpemingone grant, 2017 · $10k
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 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Superior Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Start the Cycle. 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 34 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 96 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
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 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.
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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