Ohio · Private foundation
Boutell Memorial Fund
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $850k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2026
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 70%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $175,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 2
- Total assets, FY2026
- $9.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 70% of the organizations Boutell Memorial Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 15 | $775k | 67% |
| FY2025 | 10 | $405k | 70% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $1.3M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $35k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $710k | 88% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $635k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $528k | 45% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $534k | 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 FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Michigan University | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Saginaw Valley Zoological Society | $750,000 | 2 | 22% |
| Saginaw Future Inc | $265,000 | 5 | 2% |
| SVRC Industries Inc | $256,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Temple Theatre Foundation | $143,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Great Lakes Bay Health Centers | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Templearts | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan | $80,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hidden Harvest | $77,500 | 3 | 0% |
| United Way of Saginaw County | $75,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Boutell Memorial Fund 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: Saginaw Community Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Morley Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Harvey Randall Wickes Foundation · Alice E Turner Memorial Trust · Frank N Andersen Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Bay Area Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Boutell Memorial Fund
- How much does Boutell Memorial Fund give?
- Boutell Memorial Fund reported 16 grants totaling $850,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2025.
- What does Boutell Memorial Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (31%), Animals (19%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Boutell Memorial Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Central Michigan University ($1.0M), Saginaw Valley Zoological Society ($750k), Saginaw Future Inc ($265k).
- Does Boutell Memorial Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 70% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Boutell Memorial Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Boutell Memorial Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saginaw Community Foundation, Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation, Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation.
- Where is Boutell Memorial Fund based?
- Boutell Memorial Fund is based in OH.
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