Michigan · Private foundation
Alena 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.
- $267k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Alena Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 11 | $267k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $127k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $123k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $119k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $120k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $150k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $125k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $107k | 27% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Outreach Center | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Art Experience Inc | $70,200 | 7 | 9% |
| Yoga by Design Foundation | $60,000 | 5 | 15% |
| Avalon Healing Center | $56,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Vista Maria | $54,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Mymichigan Health | $47,650 | 7 | 0% |
| Clare Public Schools | $35,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Michigan Dyslexia Institute Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Oxford Community Schools General Fund | $31,150 | 4 | n/a |
| 42strong | $25,000 | 3 | 4% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Outreach Center | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Art Experience Inc | $70,200 | 7 | 9% |
| Yoga by Design Foundation | $60,000 | 5 | 15% |
| Avalon Healing Center | $56,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Vista Maria | $54,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Mymichigan Health | $47,650 | 7 | 0% |
| Clare Public Schools | $35,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Michigan Dyslexia Institute Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Oxford Community Schools General Fund | $31,150 | 4 | n/a |
| 42strong | $25,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Common Ground | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cranbrook Educational Community | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Releaf Michigan Inc | $18,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Oxford Open Handed | $18,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| 4 Pawz Strong | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| College for Creative Studies | $9,150 | 2 | 0% |
| Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| House of Providence | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($507k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alena Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Consumers Energy Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Alena Foundation
- How much does Alena Foundation give?
- Alena Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $267,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Alena Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Human Services (27%), Health (16%).
- Who are Alena Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Family Outreach Center ($200k), The Art Experience Inc ($70k), Yoga by Design Foundation ($60k).
- Does Alena Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alena 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 Alena Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Michigan Health Endowment Fund, Consumers Energy Foundation.
- Where is Alena Foundation based?
- Alena Foundation is based in MI.
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