Michigan · Private foundation
Alvin and Marty Elzinga 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.
- $8k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 8
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $67k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Alvin and Marty Elzinga Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 6 | $8k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $10k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $13k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $15k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $12k | 83% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $13k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillside Community Church | $4,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Unknown Nations | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Encounter Church | $3,250 | 4 | n/a |
| Back 2 Back Ministries Inc | $1,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Hope Unexpected | $1,040 | 2 | 0% |
| Appalachia Reach Out | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| God's Vision for Haiti | $360 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($55k), not named here.
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Alvin and Marty Elzinga Foundation with peer funders
About Alvin and Marty Elzinga Foundation
- How much does Alvin and Marty Elzinga Foundation give?
- Alvin and Marty Elzinga Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $8,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Alvin and Marty Elzinga Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (85%), International (3%), Education (3%).
- Who are Alvin and Marty Elzinga Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Hillside Community Church ($5k), Unknown Nations ($4k), Encounter Church ($3k).
- Does Alvin and Marty Elzinga Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alvin and Marty Elzinga 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 Alvin and Marty Elzinga Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Alvin and Marty Elzinga Foundation based?
- Alvin and Marty Elzinga Foundation is based in MI.
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