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Appletree Hill 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.

$208k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
47%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 19
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$3.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Appletree Hill Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving24$208k46%
FY202419$136k47%
FY202314$88k57%
FY202213$145k54%
FY202111$128k82%
FY202013$75k62%
FY201911$66kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$198kHuman Services$190kAnimals$134kPublic Benefit$53kHousing & Shelter$50kEducation$40kPhilanthropy$32kFood & Nutrition$30kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
KY
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
LA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 38 grantees
All grantees of Appletree Hill Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Paws With A Cause$49,00070%
Angels of Hope a Family Cancer Foundation$40,00017%
Woody Williams Foundation Inc$37,00051%
The Bottomless Toy Chest Inc$30,00032%
Maggie's Wigs4kids of Michigan Inc$30,00022%
The Furniture Resource Center$30,00041%
Rsa Foundation$30,00021%
Festival of Trees Inc$25,00049%
Motor City Mitten Mission$25,00032%
Macomb Foster Closet$20,000312%
13 Forever$20,0001n/a
Heat 4 Heroes$20,0001n/a
4 Paws 1 Heart$20,00028%
Fleece & Thank You$20,00021%
Annjenette Foundation Inc$20,0001n/a
A Rejoyceful Animal Rescue$19,00031%
Cassie Hines Shoes Cancer Foundation Inc$15,0001n/a
Cat Tail Kitties$10,0001n/a
Manna Food Bank Inc$10,00010%
Jazmines Journey$10,000148%
Turning Point USA Inc$10,00010%
Precious Pets Adoption League$10,0001n/a
Brain Injury Association of Michigan Inc$10,00021%
Beloved Asheville$10,00010%
Trinity Community Care Inc$10,0001n/a
Thrilla Gives Inc$8,00015%
Rosies Kitty Catf$8,0001n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$8,00020%
Big Family of Michigan Inc$8,00016%
Downriver for Veterans$6,00013%
Blankets With Care$5,0001n/a
Friends of Foster Kids$5,00011%
Pet Adoption Alternative of Warren$5,0001n/a
Feral Today Friend Tomorrow$5,0001n/a
American Battlefield Trust$4,36010%
Make A Difference Rescue Inc$3,50012%
Big Cat Rescue Corp$3,00010%
Packard Motor Car Foundation$3,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($244k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Appletree Hill Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPaws With A Cause: $49,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAngels of Hope a Family Cancer Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetWoody Williams Foundation Inc: $37,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetThe Bottomless Toy Chest Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetMaggie's Wigs4kids of Michigan Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetThe Furniture Resource Center: $30,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetRsa Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFestival of Trees Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetMotor City Mitten Mission: $25,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetMacomb Foster Closet: $20,000 over 3y, 12% of budget4 Paws 1 Heart: $20,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetFleece & Thank You: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetA Rejoyceful Animal Rescue: $19,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetManna Food Bank Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJazmines Journey: $10,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrain Injury Association of Michigan Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBeloved Asheville: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThrilla Gives Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBig Family of Michigan Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetDownriver for Veterans: $6,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetFriends of Foster Kids: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust: $4,360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake A Difference Rescue Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBig Cat Rescue Corp: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPackard Motor Car Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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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 27.

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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.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI18.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Barton Malow Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · Strunk Foundation · Four County Community Foundation · Canton Community Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Edward Jones Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Appletree Hill Foundation

How much does Appletree Hill Foundation give?
Appletree Hill Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $208,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Appletree Hill Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Human Services (22%), Animals (16%).
Who are Appletree Hill Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Paws With A Cause ($49k), Angels of Hope a Family Cancer Foundation ($40k), Woody Williams Foundation Inc ($37k).
Does Appletree Hill Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Appletree Hill 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 Appletree Hill Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, The Barton Malow Foundation, DTE Energy Foundation.
Where is Appletree Hill Foundation based?
Appletree Hill Foundation is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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