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Daniel J Loepp Family Foundation

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.

$740k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
28%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 24
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$15M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Daniel J Loepp Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving19$740k32%
FY202418$647k28%
FY202317$313k24%
FY202213$253k23%
FY202124$721k50%
FY202016$197kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.1MCommunity Improvement$133kArts & Culture$95kHealth$95kFood & Nutrition$50kInternational$50kPublic Benefit$50kYouth Development$45kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
De la Salle Collegiate$1,325,0006n/a
Eton Academy$151,77361%
Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix Inc$72,50010%
Make Food Not Waste$50,00046%
Detroit Horse Power$35,00030%
Belle Isle Conservancy$35,00050%
Michigan Parkinson Foundation$30,00050%
Michigan State University$25,0001n/a
United Way for Southeastern Michigan$24,00020%
Detroit Public Media$20,00020%
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All grantees of Daniel J Loepp Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
De la Salle Collegiate$1,325,0006n/a
Eton Academy$151,77361%
Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix Inc$72,50010%
Make Food Not Waste$50,00046%
Detroit Horse Power$35,00030%
Belle Isle Conservancy$35,00050%
Michigan Parkinson Foundation$30,00050%
Michigan State University$25,0001n/a
United Way for Southeastern Michigan$24,00020%
Detroit Public Media$20,00020%
Old Newsboys Goodfellow Fund of Detroit Michigan$20,00040%
Michigan League for Public Policy$12,50020%
Brain Research Foundation$12,50050%
The Christian Brothers of the Midwest Inc$10,0002n/a
Thrive Scholars$10,0001n/a
Community House Foundation$5,00020%
Oakland University$5,0001n/a
Families Against Narcotics Inc DBA Face Addiction Now$5,00010%
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Ctr Inc$4,50020%
Hospice of Michigan Inc$2,50010%
Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries$1,00010%
City Rescue Mission of Lansing Mich$1,00010%
Angels' Place$1,00010%
Guest House Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Daniel J Loepp Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEton Academy: $151,773 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetDetroit Belle Isle Grand Prix Inc: $72,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMake Food Not Waste: $50,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetDetroit Horse Power: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBelle Isle Conservancy: $35,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMichigan Parkinson Foundation: $30,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Way for Southeastern Michigan: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDetroit Public Media: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOld Newsboys Goodfellow Fund of Detroit Michigan: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMichigan League for Public Policy: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBrain Research Foundation: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity House Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFamilies Against Narcotics Inc DBA Face Addiction Now: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBirmingham Bloomfield Art Ctr Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHospice of Michigan Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Rescue Mission of Lansing Mich: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAngels' Place: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuest House Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI25× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · S Gary Spicer Sr Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · The Skillman Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Daniel J Loepp Family Foundation

How much does Daniel J Loepp Family Foundation give?
Daniel J Loepp Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $740,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Daniel J Loepp Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (73%), Community Improvement (5%), Arts & Culture (3%).
Who are Daniel J Loepp Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: De la Salle Collegiate ($1.3M), Eton Academy ($152k), Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix Inc ($73k).
Does Daniel J Loepp Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Daniel J Loepp Family 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 Daniel J Loepp Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, The Kresge Foundation, United Jewish Foundation.
Where is Daniel J Loepp Family Foundation based?
Daniel J Loepp Family Foundation is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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