Michigan · Private foundation
Bierlein Companies Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $250k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 108
- Grants FY2024
- 125
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $750
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $33,700
- Organizations funded a year
- 65 to 136
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Bierlein Companies Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 104 | $218k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 125 | $198k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 136 | $195k | 61% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $118k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 66 | $152k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Racquet Sports Foundation | $52,500 | 2 | 22% |
| Greater Midland Community Ctrs Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Covenant Healthcare Foundation | $33,700 | 1 | 2% |
| Saginaw Valley State University | $32,040 | 4 | n/a |
| Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan | $27,850 | 5 | 0% |
| Tri-Star Charitable Foundation | $22,500 | 3 | 5% |
| Saginaw Future Inc | $22,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The One Hundred Club of Saginaw Cou | $19,460 | 5 | 5% |
| Child Abuse & Neglect Council Great Lakes Bay Region | $15,180 | 2 | 1% |
| Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy | $13,750 | 5 | 2% |
Show all 118 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 153 recipients with no EIN on record ($363k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bierlein Companies 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: Midland Area Community Foundation · Saginaw Community Foundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Bay Area Community Foundation · Morley Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Frank N Andersen Foundation · The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · Dow Company Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bierlein Companies Foundation
- How much does Bierlein Companies Foundation give?
- Bierlein Companies Foundation reported 108 grants totaling $250,095 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 65 and 136 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Bierlein Companies Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (18%), Recreation & Sports (17%), Education (16%).
- Who are Bierlein Companies Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Urban Racquet Sports Foundation ($53k), Greater Midland Community Ctrs Inc ($50k), Covenant Healthcare Foundation ($34k).
- Does Bierlein Companies Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bierlein Companies 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 Bierlein Companies Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Midland Area Community Foundation, Saginaw Community Foundation, Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Bierlein Companies Foundation based?
- Bierlein Companies Foundation is based in MI.
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