Michigan · Public charity
Council of Michigan Foundations
To lead, strengthen and support michigan's community of philanthropy.
- $137k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
92% of Council of Michigan Foundations’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Sanilac County Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2025
- $98k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $44M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Council of Michigan Foundations 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 | 1 | $8k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $460k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $349k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $296k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $470k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $658k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $557k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $293k | 100% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Stewart Mott Foundation | $939,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Michigan State University | $750,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Launch Michigan | $635,267 | 2 | 32% |
| One Love Global | $373,592 | 2 | 24% |
| Michigan Nonprofit Association | $293,500 | 3 | 1% |
| We the People of Detroit | $38,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Council on Foundations Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Foundation for St Clair County | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Education Commission | $12,500 | 1 | 7% |
| Dickinson Area Community Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Stewart Mott Foundation | $939,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Michigan State University | $750,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Launch Michigan | $635,267 | 2 | 32% |
| One Love Global | $373,592 | 2 | 24% |
| Michigan Nonprofit Association | $293,500 | 3 | 1% |
| We the People of Detroit | $38,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Council on Foundations Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Foundation for St Clair County | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Education Commission | $12,500 | 1 | 7% |
| Dickinson Area Community Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Hazel Park | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Chippewa County Community Foundation | $6,400 | 1 | n/a |
| The Urban Institute | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($150k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Council of Michigan Foundations supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Consumers Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Michigan College Access Network · WK Kellogg Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · DTE Energy Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Michigan Nonprofit Association · Frey Foundation · Kalamazoo Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Council of Michigan Foundations
- How much does Council of Michigan Foundations give?
- Council of Michigan Foundations reported 10 itemized grants totaling $98,091, out of $136,674 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Council of Michigan Foundations fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (52%), Education (16%), Environment (11%).
- Who are Council of Michigan Foundations's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation ($939k), Michigan State University ($750k), Launch Michigan ($635k).
- Does Council of Michigan Foundations fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Council of Michigan Foundations?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Consumers Energy Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
- Where is Council of Michigan Foundations based?
- Council of Michigan Foundations is based in MI.
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