Michigan · Private foundation
Culture Need & Heritage Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $20k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,163
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $242k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Culture Need & Heritage Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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 | 11 | $20k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $47k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $6k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $28k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $24k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $23k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $24k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $24k | 19% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feeding America West Michigan | $24,393 | 8 | 0% |
| Mosaic Christian Community Development Association Inc | $16,755 | 7 | 0% |
| Hospice at Home Inc | $16,500 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Soup Kitchen Inc | $12,615 | 8 | 1% |
| Readiness Center Inc | $11,725 | 8 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Southwest Michigan | $10,083 | 7 | 0% |
| Harbor Habitat for Humanity Inc | $7,113 | 7 | 0% |
| Well of Grace Ministries Inc | $7,060 | 7 | 1% |
| Young Life | $6,105 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feeding America West Michigan | $24,393 | 8 | 0% |
| Mosaic Christian Community Development Association Inc | $16,755 | 7 | 0% |
| Hospice at Home Inc | $16,500 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Soup Kitchen Inc | $12,615 | 8 | 1% |
| Readiness Center Inc | $11,725 | 8 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Southwest Michigan | $10,083 | 7 | 0% |
| Harbor Habitat for Humanity Inc | $7,113 | 7 | 0% |
| Well of Grace Ministries Inc | $7,060 | 7 | 1% |
| Young Life | $6,105 | 2 | 0% |
| Memspa Foundation Inc | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| My Body and Soul | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Benton Harbor Promise Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 2% |
| St Pauls Lutheran Church and School | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Emergency Shelter Services Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Salvation Army | $1,100 | 2 | n/a |
| Berrien County Cancer Services Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($79k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Culture Need & Heritage 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: Berrien Community Foundation Inc · Whirlpool Foundation · Fettig Family Foundation · United Way of Southwest Michigan · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Culture Need & Heritage Foundation with peer funders
About Culture Need & Heritage Foundation
- How much does Culture Need & Heritage Foundation give?
- Culture Need & Heritage Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $20,325 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Culture Need & Heritage Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (16%), Youth Development (16%), Housing & Shelter (16%).
- Who are Culture Need & Heritage Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Feeding America West Michigan ($24k), Mosaic Christian Community Development Association Inc ($17k), Hospice at Home Inc ($17k).
- Does Culture Need & Heritage Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Culture Need & Heritage Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Culture Need & Heritage Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berrien Community Foundation Inc, Whirlpool Foundation, Fettig Family Foundation.
- Where is Culture Need & Heritage Foundation based?
- Culture Need & Heritage Foundation is based in MI.
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