Michigan · Private foundation
Deseranno Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $66k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $17,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $604k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Deseranno Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% 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 | 14 | $66k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $60k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $63k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $66k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $71k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $46k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Grosse Pointe Academy | $68,700 | 5 | 0% |
| East Side Youth Sports Foundation | $58,525 | 6 | 2% |
| United States Fencing Association | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University Liggett School | $25,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Holy Yoga Detroit | $24,450 | 5 | n/a |
| Grosse Pointe Foundation for Public Education | $21,200 | 6 | 2% |
| Kids on the Go | $18,250 | 6 | 1% |
| De la Salle Collegiate | $14,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Grosse Pointe Yacht Club Foundation | $4,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Jt Mestdagh Foundation | $2,800 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Grosse Pointe Academy | $68,700 | 5 | 0% |
| East Side Youth Sports Foundation | $58,525 | 6 | 2% |
| United States Fencing Association | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University Liggett School | $25,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Holy Yoga Detroit | $24,450 | 5 | n/a |
| Grosse Pointe Foundation for Public Education | $21,200 | 6 | 2% |
| Kids on the Go | $18,250 | 6 | 1% |
| De la Salle Collegiate | $14,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Grosse Pointe Yacht Club Foundation | $4,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Jt Mestdagh Foundation | $2,800 | 4 | 1% |
| Element Community Health Fund Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Annex Teen Clinic Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Sabathani Community Center | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Grosse Pointe Yacht Club | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Full Circle Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tau Beta Association | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Grosse Pointe South Gridiron Club | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Tserings Fund | $700 | 1 | 0% |
| Renaissance Fencing Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Dravet Syndrome Foundation Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($89k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Deseranno 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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Patrick and Christie Scoggin Family Foundation · John a & Marlene L Boll Foundation · Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Deseranno Foundation
- How much does Deseranno Foundation give?
- Deseranno Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $66,025 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Deseranno Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Recreation & Sports (29%), Youth Development (14%).
- Who are Deseranno Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Grosse Pointe Academy ($69k), East Side Youth Sports Foundation ($59k), United States Fencing Association ($30k).
- Does Deseranno Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Deseranno Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Deseranno Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Patrick and Christie Scoggin Family Foundation, John a & Marlene L Boll Foundation.
- Where is Deseranno Foundation based?
- Deseranno Foundation is based in MI.
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