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M & M Area Community Foundation

Menominee, MI · EIN 38-3264725. Reported 66 grants totalling $1,657,887 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

41organizations funded
$10,505median reported grant
$1,657,887granted, 2021-2024
43%of grantees funded again the next year
22%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For M & M Area Community Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 22% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 43% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,505. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $25,000; the smallest was $5,140 and the largest $306,566. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
26 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
23 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
10 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
4 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
2 grants
$250,000 Or More
1 grant

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
City of MenomineeMenominee, MI$356,743442024
Friends of Spies Public LibraryMenominee, MI$192,946332023
River Cities Community Pool Association IncMarinette, WI$160,400442024
Twin Counties Free ClinicMarinette, WI$130,926112021
D a R Boys & Girls ClubMenominee, MI$82,504442024
Marinette County Historical Society IncorporatedMarinette, WI$67,689112021
Upper Peninsula Catholic Foundation IncMarquette, MI$50,000112021
Menominee Area Public SchoolsMenominee, MI$47,500222022
M&m Area Community FoundationMenominee, MI$42,120322024
North Muskegon High SchoolMuskegon, MI$40,000222022
St Joseph Conference Marinette WiMarinette, WI$37,742322022
Young Mens Christian Association Greater Marinette MenomineeMenominee, MI$36,470222022
Future FundMenominee, MI$35,000112023
M&m Childrens Museum IncMenominee, MI$34,804112024
Menominee Animal Shelter IncMenominee, MI$34,720332024
Marinette Menominee Area Pickleball IncMarinette, WI$30,385112024
Menominee High SchoolMenominee, MI$30,000222023
St Thomas Aquinas AcademyMarinette, WI$27,651332024
Marinette County Public Health DeptMarinette, WI$27,500332024
Walton Blesch Stadium Legacy FoundationMenominee, MI$25,000112024
Kuber Family FundGreen Bay, WI$20,000112023
School District of Beecher-Dunbar- PembinePembine, WI$12,351112022
Peshtigo River CenterCrivitz, WI$10,510112022
Crivitz School DistrictCrivitz, WI$10,270112022
American Federation of State County & Municipal EmployeesMadison, WI$9,000112021
Wagner Fire DepartmentWausaukee, WI$9,000112021
Wausaukee Rescue Squad IncWausaukee, WI$8,500112022
Middle Inlet Volunteer Fire DepartmentMiddle Inlet, WI$8,000112024
Menominee Co Intermediate Sch DistMenominee, MI$7,500112022
Northern Michigan UniversityMarquette, MI$7,500112024
Pioneer Presbyterian ChurchMarinette, WI$7,000112023
Coleman School DistrictColeman, WI$6,335112022
Menominee Youth BaseballMenominee, MI$6,300112022
Pincrest Medical Care FacilityMarinette, WI$6,211112024
Menominee County Sheriff's OfficeMenominee, MI$6,180112023
Rainbow House Domestic Abuse Service IncMarinette, WI$5,853112023
Menominee Maroon Athletic Booster Club IncMenominee, MI$5,700112023
Beecher-Dunbar-Prembine School DistrictPembine, WI$5,537112024
Salvation ArmyMarinette, WI$5,500112021
Grover-Porterfield Fire DepartmentPeshtigo, WI$5,400112021
Village of PoundPound, WI$5,140112022

13 of 41 (32%) 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.

It also reported 4 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 11 of 41 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.

Recreation & Sports
3 orgs
Human Services
3 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Arts & Culture
1 org
Animal Welfare
1 org
Employment
1 org
Education
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202118$489,695$12,130
202219$267,765$11,000
202314$340,046$10,000
202415$560,381$10,000

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

63% 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.

Michigan
$1.0M
Wisconsin
$617K

Down to the city

Menominee, MI
$943K
Marinette, WI
$507K
Marquette, MI
$58K
Muskegon, MI
$40K
Crivitz, WI
$21K
Green Bay, WI
$20K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Provident Health Foundation7 shared recipientsRobert & Jeanine Dagenais3 shared recipientsGreater Milwaukee Foundation Inc3 shared recipientsSuperior Health Foundation2 shared recipientsGreater Green Bay Community2 shared recipientsBellin Memorial Hospital Inc2 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,505 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Michigan.
  4. 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.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from M & M Area Community Foundation'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.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 19 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 1110 10TH Avenue Suite L-1, Menominee, MI, 49858.

EIN 38-3264725 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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