Michigan · Private foundation
Answer Health Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $29k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $212k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Answer Health Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | $29k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $28k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $20k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $16k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $12k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $10k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $900 | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kids' Food Basket Inc | $14,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Our Kitchen Table | $14,750 | 6 | 4% |
| Health Intervention Services | $14,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Guiding Light Mission Inc | $10,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Mel Trotter Ministries | $10,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Wedgwood Christian Services | $10,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Area Agency on Aging of Western Michigan Inc | $10,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Women at Risk International Inc | $10,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Oasis of Hope Center | $10,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Be Cafe | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kids' Food Basket Inc | $14,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Our Kitchen Table | $14,750 | 6 | 4% |
| Health Intervention Services | $14,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Guiding Light Mission Inc | $10,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Mel Trotter Ministries | $10,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Wedgwood Christian Services | $10,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Area Agency on Aging of Western Michigan Inc | $10,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Women at Risk International Inc | $10,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Oasis of Hope Center | $10,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Be Cafe | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| National Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc | $900 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($500), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Answer Health 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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Corewell Health Group Return · The Meijer Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Barnabas Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Answer Health Foundation
- How much does Answer Health Foundation give?
- Answer Health Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $28,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Answer Health Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Food & Nutrition (26%), Health (14%).
- Who are Answer Health Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kids' Food Basket Inc ($15k), Our Kitchen Table ($15k), Health Intervention Services ($15k).
- Does Answer Health Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Answer Health Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Answer Health Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Corewell Health Group Return, The Meijer Foundation.
- Where is Answer Health Foundation based?
- Answer Health Foundation is based in MI.
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