How much does Americana Foundation give?

Americana Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $617,013 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Americana Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Education (24%), Environment (22%).

Who are Americana Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Michigan State University ($1.0M), EARTH University Foundation Inc ($185k), Thomas Jefferson Foundation Inc ($155k).

Does Americana Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Americana Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Americana Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include DTE Energy Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation.

Where is Americana Foundation based?

Americana Foundation is based in MI.

Foundation Dossiers

Michigan · Private foundation

Americana Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$617k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 31
Grants FY2025: 27
Organizations funded FY2024: 48%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $97,500
Organizations funded a year: 19 to 35; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 7
Total assets, FY2025: $22M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 48% of the organizations Americana Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementEducationHealthOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	26	$617k	35%
FY2024	27	$647k	48%
FY2023	32	$598k	56%
FY2022	33	$788k	61%
FY2021	28	$684k	61%
FY2020	19	$592k	47%
FY2019	26	$600k	54%
FY2018	35	$913k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.3MEducation$1.1MEnvironment$1.0MFood & Nutrition$710kHuman Services$151kCommunity Improvement$142kPhilanthropy$84kPublic Benefit$79kOther$0

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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Michigan State University	$1,036,947	8	n/a
EARTH University Foundation Inc	$185,000	5	1%
Thomas Jefferson Foundation Inc	$155,000	3	0%
Growing Hope Inc	$122,000	5	3%
Keep Growing Detroit	$119,000	5	4%
Eastern Market Corporation	$105,000	3	1%
The Greening of Detroit	$104,000	4	1%
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation	$99,184	3	0%
Asbury Community Development Corp	$96,000	4	6%
Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest	$90,000	3	1%

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All grantees of Americana Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Michigan State University	$1,036,947	8	n/a
EARTH University Foundation Inc	$185,000	5	1%
Thomas Jefferson Foundation Inc	$155,000	3	0%
Growing Hope Inc	$122,000	5	3%
Keep Growing Detroit	$119,000	5	4%
Eastern Market Corporation	$105,000	3	1%
The Greening of Detroit	$104,000	4	1%
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation	$99,184	3	0%
Asbury Community Development Corp	$96,000	4	6%
Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest	$90,000	3	1%
Old Sturbridge Inc	$75,000	2	0%
Henry Ford Estate	$72,500	3	3%
Michigan Enviromental Council	$68,000	4	1%
Saugatuck Dunes Coastal Alliance	$65,000	3	25%
Make Food Not Waste	$63,514	4	8%
Detroit Public Media	$55,549	2	0%
Keweenaw Land Trust Inc	$55,000	2	n/a
Edsel & Eleanor Ford House	$51,000	3	0%
Historic Deerfield Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Philadelphia Museum of Art	$50,000	1	0%
Huron River Watershed Council	$50,000	2	1%
United Way of Northeast Michigan	$50,000	2	10%
Edible Flint	$50,000	2	45%
Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior	$50,000	2	32%
Michigan History Foundation Inc	$45,000	2	10%
Forgotten Harvest Inc	$45,000	3	0%
Fair Food Network Inc	$43,488	3	0%
Legacy Land Conservancy	$40,900	2	1%
Hessel School House Corporation	$39,000	2	14%
Six Rivers Land Conservancy Fka Six Rivers Regional Land Conservancy	$36,599	3	3%
Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology	$36,000	2	3%
The Center for Michigan	$35,000	3	1%
Worcester Art Museum	$30,000	1	0%
Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy	$30,000	1	0%
Our Kitchen Table	$30,000	1	11%
Packard Motor Car Foundation	$30,000	1	4%
Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision	$30,000	1	1%
Ecology Center	$27,000	1	1%
Clinton River Watershed Council	$26,000	2	3%
Socially Responsible Agriculture Project Inc	$25,058	1	1%
Soo Locks Childrens Museum	$25,000	1	13%
Huron Pines Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Detroit Future City	$25,000	1	1%
Kalamazoo Nature Center	$25,000	1	1%
Craft in America	$25,000	1	n/a
Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation	$25,000	1	1%
Flint Social Club	$25,000	1	9%
Black to the Land Coalition	$25,000	1	40%
Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Denver Art Museum	$25,000	1	0%
Crooked Tree Arts Council Inc	$25,000	1	2%
Historical Society of Michigan	$25,000	2	1%
Historic Locust Grove Inc	$25,000	1	3%
Cares of Farmington Hills Inc	$25,000	1	4%
The Friends of Valley Forge Valley Forge Park Alliance	$25,000	1	4%
Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/A Concord Museum	$25,000	1	1%
Regents of the University of Michigan	$25,000	2	n/a
Quincy Mine Hoist Association	$25,000	1	n/a
For Love of Water	$25,000	1	5%
Muskegon River Watershed Assembly	$25,000	1	2%
Fishtown Preservation Society Inc	$25,000	1	2%
Michigan Integrated Food and Farming Systems Inc	$22,000	1	6%
Little Traverse Conservancy Inc	$22,000	2	0%
Grow Jackson	$20,000	1	n/a
The Stewardship Network	$20,000	1	1%
Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice	$20,000	1	2%
Houghton County Historical Society	$20,000	1	n/a
The Pewabic Society Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Society of Architectural Historians	$20,000	1	1%
Soil2Service Inc	$20,000	1	13%
Land Information Access Association	$19,500	1	3%
Detroit Hives Inc	$18,500	1	7%
American Farmland Trust	$18,500	1	0%
Wayne State University	$18,000	1	n/a
Headwaters Land Conservancy	$16,000	1	2%
Telfair Museum of Art Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation	$15,000	1	0%
Rada Foundation Inc	$15,000	1	2%
Main Street Calumet Inc	$15,000	1	30%
Friends of the Rouge	$15,000	1	3%
Upper Peninsula Land Conservancy	$15,000	1	3%
National Wildlife Federation	$12,500	2	0%
Detroit Historical Society	$10,350	1	0%
Asheville Art Museum Association Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Genesee County Agricultural Society	$10,000	1	1%
Leelanau Conservancy	$10,000	1	0%
Health Unit on Davison Avenue	$10,000	1	2%
Live Zero Waste Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Mackinac Associates	$10,000	1	3%
Kids' Food Basket Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Council of Michigan Foundations	$8,450	3	0%
Slave Dwelling Project Inc	$8,100	1	3%
Metro Food Rescue	$7,500	1	3%
Detroit Public Schools Foundation	$7,500	1	0%
Copper Country Preservation Trust I	$7,390	1	n/a
Tiny Seed Project Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Environmental Grantmakers Association	$5,000	1	0%
Bethany Housing Ministries Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Allen Neighborhood Center	$5,000	1	0%
Lutheran Church of the Master	$2,500	1	n/a
Detroit Horse Power	$2,500	1	0%
Friends of the Animal Barn Corporation	$1,500	1	n/a
Detroit Food Policy Council	$1,000	1	n/a
Hasselbring Senior Center	$250	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($924k), not named here.

Americana Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 90 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 90.

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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.

DTE Energy FoundationMI46.9× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: DTE Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Ford Philanthropy · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Frey Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Americana Foundation

How much does Americana Foundation give?: Americana Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $617,013 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Americana Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Education (24%), Environment (22%).
Who are Americana Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Michigan State University ($1.0M), EARTH University Foundation Inc ($185k), Thomas Jefferson Foundation Inc ($155k).
Does Americana Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Americana Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Americana Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include DTE Energy Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation.
Where is Americana Foundation based?: Americana Foundation is based in MI.