Michigan · Private foundation
Burton & Elizabeth Upjohn Charitable Trust
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.
- $109k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 25
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Burton & Elizabeth Upjohn Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 23 | $109k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $99k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $96k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $112k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $102k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $104k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| YWCA West Central Michigan | $58,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Family & Children Services Inc | $55,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Community Healing Centers | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center | $45,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Kalamazoo Inc | $32,500 | 6 | 0% |
| New Genesis Inc | $31,000 | 6 | 1% |
| First Congregational Church of Kalamazoo | $24,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Disability Network Southwest Michigan | $22,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kalamazoo Literacy Council | $18,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($154k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Burton & Elizabeth Upjohn Charitable Trust 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: Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Ws & Lois Vandalson Foundation
How this is measured
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About Burton & Elizabeth Upjohn Charitable Trust
- How much does Burton & Elizabeth Upjohn Charitable Trust give?
- Burton & Elizabeth Upjohn Charitable Trust reported 23 grants totaling $109,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Burton & Elizabeth Upjohn Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (41%), Health (14%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are Burton & Elizabeth Upjohn Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes Inc ($60k), YWCA West Central Michigan ($58k), Family & Children Services Inc ($56k).
- Does Burton & Elizabeth Upjohn Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Burton & Elizabeth Upjohn Charitable Trust 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 Burton & Elizabeth Upjohn Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation, United Way of South Central Michigan, Kalamazoo Community Foundation.
- Where is Burton & Elizabeth Upjohn Charitable Trust based?
- Burton & Elizabeth Upjohn Charitable Trust is based in MI.
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