Community Foundation of Marquette
Marquette, MI · EIN 38-2826563. Reported 174 grants totalling $6,116,474 to 74 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Community Foundation of Marquette, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 74 distinct organizations, with 23% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 78% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $6,500 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,016 and the largest $1,376,453. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Marquette Mi | Marquette, MI | $1,391,950 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Superior Watershed Partnership | Marquette, MI | $1,060,692 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Other Less Than 5000 | $612,495 | 4 | 4 | 2024 | |
| Grow & Lead - Community and Youth Development | Marquette, MI | $532,488 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Northern Michigan University | Marquette, MI | $175,600 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| US National Ski Hall of Fame | Ishpeming, MI | $157,199 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Powell Township Fire Department | Big Bay, MI | $116,000 | 12 | 4 | 2024 |
| Upaws | Marquette, MI | $104,676 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Peter White Public Library Development Fund | Marquette, MI | $103,738 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Great Lakes Recovery Center | Negaunee, MI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Women's Center | Marquette, MI | $92,238 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Room at the Inn | Marquette, MI | $91,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bay Cliff Health Camp | Big Bay, MI | $87,615 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| County of Marquette | Marquette, MI | $82,112 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Janzen House | Marquette, MI | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Superior Connections Recovery Commu | Marquette, MI | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bay De Noc Community Colleg | Escanaba, MI | $61,700 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Central Michigan University | Mt Pleasant, MI | $56,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Marquette County Land Bank Authorit | Marquette, MI | $56,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Salvation Army National Corp | Alexandria, VA | $54,475 | 6 | 3 | 2024 |
| Lake Superior Community Partnership | Marquette, MI | $52,232 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Grand Valley University Foundation | Allendale, MI | $51,450 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Northwoods Airlifeline | Kingsford, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alumni Association of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $49,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Michigan State University | Escanaba, MI | $36,689 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Christopher Catholic Church | Marquette, MI | $36,665 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Maresa | Marquette, MI | $33,400 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ishpeming Public School District 1 | Ishpeming, MI | $33,054 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Bark River Harris Schools | Harris, MI | $32,592 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Trillium House | Marquette, MI | $32,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Negaunee High School | Negaunee, MI | $30,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marquette Symphony Orchestra Inc | Marquette, MI | $30,422 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Six Feet Over | Detroit, MI | $27,487 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Marquette Community Foundation | Marquette, MI | $26,259 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Lake Superior State University | Saulte Ste, MI | $25,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Marquette Mountain Race Team | Marquette, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marquette Junior Hockey League | Marquette, MI | $22,692 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Forsyth Township Police Department | Gwinn, MI | $20,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Huron Island Lighthouse | Lanse, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ishpeming High School Alumni Assoc | Ishpeming, MI | $18,052 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Alzheimers Disease and Related Disorders Association Inc | Chicago, IL | $16,319 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Cancer Society Inc | Atlanta, GA | $16,319 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Diabetes Association | Merrifield, VA | $16,319 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Heart Association Inc | Dallas, TX | $16,319 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Lung Association | Brookfield, WI | $16,319 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| National Public Radio Inc | Washington, DC | $16,319 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Northern Michigan University Foundation | Marquette, MI | $16,319 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| City of Negaunee Mi | Negaunee, MI | $15,700 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Michigan Education Association | East Lansing, MI | $15,525 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Nea Foundation for the Improvement of Education | Washington, DC | $15,525 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Marquette Junior Hockey Corp | Marquette, MI | $14,696 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Patridge Creek Farm Inc | Ishpeming, MI | $13,111 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ishpeming Cancer Society | Ishpeming, MI | $12,349 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| 906 Adventure Team | Marquette, MI | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Gwinn Area School | Gwinn, MI | $11,415 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Vincent De Paul Gwinn | Gwinn, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Superior Connections Recovery | Marquette, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Upward Talent Council | Marquette, MI | $9,840 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Planned Parenthood of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $9,186 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Maps Education Foundatino | Marquette, MI | $8,706 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 906 Community Church | Gwinn, MI | $8,680 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Keweenaw Community Foundation | Hancock, MI | $8,561 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wells Township | Arnold, MI | $8,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Superior Health Foundation | Marquette, MI | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Beacon House | Marquette, MI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Up Lions Service Foundation | Engadine, MI | $6,687 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| You People | Gwinn, MI | $6,559 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Negaunee High School (band) | Negaunee, MI | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve Inc | Big Bay, MI | $6,295 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Peninsula Arts Appreciation Council | Grand Blanc, MI | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Upper Penisula Land Conservancy | Marquette, MI | $5,872 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Opus Bono Sacerdoti | Dryden, MI | $5,265 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ishpeming Skiers' Training Faciliti | Ishpeming, MI | $5,081 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Marquette County | Marquette, MI | $5,016 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
41 of 74 (55%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 16 of 74 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 26 | $908,268 | $9,500 |
| 2022 | 44 | $1,077,418 | $8,581 |
| 2023 | 47 | $1,162,074 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 57 | $2,968,714 | $11,415 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
97% of its giving went to organizations in Michigan. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Michigan.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Community Foundation of Marquette's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 228 W Washington St Suite 6, Marquette, MI, 49855.
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