Michigan · Private foundation
Abrams Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $580k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 23
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Abrams Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $540k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $513k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $287k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $423k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $451k | 61% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $572k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan Humane Society | $735,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $215,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Northville Educational Foundation | $160,000 | 5 | 21% |
| Humane Society of Huron Valley | $157,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Humane World for Animals Inc | $122,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Trinity Health - Michigan | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Michigan | $90,000 | 1 | 34% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $90,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Trinity Health Corporation | $85,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($474k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Abrams Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: BISSELL Pet Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Dotopia · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Petco Love · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Two Seven Oh Inc · The Barton Malow Foundation · Pedigree Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Greater Good Charities
How this is measured
About Abrams Family Foundation
- How much does Abrams Family Foundation give?
- Abrams Family Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $579,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Abrams Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (49%), Health (35%), Education (6%).
- Who are Abrams Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Michigan Humane Society ($735k), Regents of the University of Michigan ($215k), Northville Educational Foundation ($160k).
- Does Abrams Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Abrams Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Abrams Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include BISSELL Pet Foundation, The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund, Dotopia.
- Where is Abrams Family Foundation based?
- Abrams Family Foundation is based in MI.
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