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Superior Health Foundation gives $467,000 to 14 U.P. groups, including a Marquette recovery home
The foundation's final grant cycle of 2026 by the numbers
- $467,000
- awarded in this grant cycle
- 14
- U.P. organizations received grants
- 26
- applications the foundation received
- $50,000
- each to Room at the Inn and CHAC
Sources: WNMU-FM, Upper Michigan's Source
If you or someone you know has nowhere safe to recover after a hospital stay, help is coming to Marquette. The Superior Health Foundation is giving $467,000 to 14 U.P. organizations in its final grant cycle of 2026. Room at the Inn got $50,000 to open a three- to four-bed interim recuperative care home in Marquette. It is expected to serve an estimated 15 to 20 people in its first year through hospital and provider referrals, with lodging, meals, transportation to appointments, benefits navigation and care coordination.
The Community Health Access Coalition also got $50,000 to keep its enrollment navigators working from January through March 2027, until millage funding begins. They help residents of Chippewa, Luce and Mackinac counties apply for and keep Medicaid, Medicare and Marketplace coverage at no cost. CEO Megan Murphy said the foundation received 26 applications, and health impact requests were the highest of the year.
- Biggest grants: $75,000 each, for child trauma care and Food As Medicine
- Equipment grants: five, from $1,050 to $10,000
- Smallest impact grant: $12,500, Special Needs Are Awesome People
Nine health impact grants ranged from $12,500 to $75,000
Sources: WNMU-FM, Upper Michigan's Source
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Delta child advocacy | $75,000 |
| Food As Medicine | $75,000 |
| From the Ground | $60,000 |
| Room at the Inn | $50,000 |
| CHAC | $50,000 |
| Start the Cycle | $50,000 |
| Epilepsy Foundation | $42,206 |
| Forever Friendship | $15,000 |
| Special Needs Are Awesome | $12,500 |
