How much does Desk Drawer Fund give?

Desk Drawer Fund reported 17 itemized grants totaling $648,192, out of $688,194 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does Desk Drawer Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (31%), Housing & Shelter (30%), Arts & Culture (19%).

Who are Desk Drawer Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Child and Family Charities ($432k), Traverse Symphony Orchestra D/B/A Traverse City Philharmonic ($200k), South Oakland Shelter ($200k).

Does Desk Drawer Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Desk Drawer Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Capital Region Community Foundation, Consumers Energy Foundation, Lansing Economic Area Partnership.

Where is Desk Drawer Fund based?

Desk Drawer Fund is based in MI.

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Michigan · Public charity

Desk Drawer Fund

Our mission is to partner with donors to empower transformational change to make a sustainable difference in our communities.

$688k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 17
Itemized grants FY2025: 16
Organizations funded FY2024: 50%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $648k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $20,066
Largest grant, FY2025: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 9 to 20; FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $2.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Desk Drawer Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $426k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	17	$648k	47%
FY2024	16	$786k	50%
FY2023	19	$604k	42%
FY2022	18	$482k	44%
FY2021	20	$331k	70%
FY2020	15	$313k	60%
FY2019	9	$164k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Youth Development$1.0MHousing & Shelter$1.0MArts & Culture$647kCommunity Improvement$226kEducation$103kPhilanthropy$101kHealth$66kAnimals$40kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Child and Family Charities	$431,907	6	1%
Traverse Symphony Orchestra D/B/A Traverse City Philharmonic	$200,000	2	8%
South Oakland Shelter	$200,000	2	1%
Capital Area United Way Inc	$160,123	5	2%
Impression 5 Science Center	$155,000	5	2%
Habitat for Humanity Capital Region Inc	$150,000	3	5%
Lansing Promise	$149,350	4	10%
The Detroit Institute of Arts	$125,000	3	0%
The Michigan Women's Foundation	$116,478	4	2%
Big Brothers Big Sisters Michigan Capital Region Inc	$100,000	2	9%

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All grantees of Desk Drawer Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Child and Family Charities	$431,907	6	1%
Traverse Symphony Orchestra D/B/A Traverse City Philharmonic	$200,000	2	8%
South Oakland Shelter	$200,000	2	1%
Capital Area United Way Inc	$160,123	5	2%
Impression 5 Science Center	$155,000	5	2%
Habitat for Humanity Capital Region Inc	$150,000	3	5%
Lansing Promise	$149,350	4	10%
The Detroit Institute of Arts	$125,000	3	0%
The Michigan Women's Foundation	$116,478	4	2%
Big Brothers Big Sisters Michigan Capital Region Inc	$100,000	2	9%
Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center	$70,000	6	5%
Tri-County Office on Aging	$60,829	1	n/a
Women's Center of Greater Lansing	$60,199	1	n/a
Arts Council of Greater Lansing	$53,758	2	5%
City of East Lansing	$50,500	5	n/a
Women's Resource Center Grand Traverse Area	$47,965	1	1%
Allen Neighborhood Center	$46,828	1	3%
Children's Healing Center	$45,859	1	1%
United Way of South Central Michigan	$44,123	2	0%
EVE - End Violent Encounters	$43,390	1	2%
Affirmations Community Center	$40,133	1	2%
Family Promise of Grand Rapids	$40,066	3	0%
Barn Sanctuary	$39,839	1	2%
The Davies Project for Mid Michigan Children	$39,253	1	9%
The New Day Foundation for Families	$39,108	1	2%
Firecracker Foundation	$38,534	1	11%
Oakland County	$37,334	2	n/a
Helping Women Period Inc	$37,333	2	21%
Aya Youth Collective	$37,333	2	0%
New Hope Pet Rescue	$36,789	1	n/a
Reach Studio Art Center	$36,057	1	10%
Love in Deed Inc	$32,709	1	n/a
Salus Center	$31,497	1	23%
Youth Haven Inc	$30,073	1	1%
Kids' Food Basket Inc	$27,501	3	0%
All of the Above Hip Hop Academy	$27,500	2	10%
Capital Area Housing Partnership	$27,500	3	0%
Hope Against Trafficking	$26,407	1	5%
Mental Health Foundation of West Michigan	$26,407	1	3%
Detroit Public Theatre	$25,000	1	1%
First Step The Western Wayne County Project Domestic Assault	$25,000	1	1%
Sweet Encounter	$21,500	1	n/a
Salute Inc	$20,066	1	1%
New Moms Inc	$20,066	1	0%
Michael's Place	$20,066	1	2%
Home Repair Services of Kent County Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Habitat for Humanity - Grand Traverse Region	$20,000	2	0%
Rende Progress Capital	$20,000	2	4%
Woldumar Nature Association	$17,530	1	n/a
Lansing Symphony Association	$17,500	1	1%
Junior Achievement of the Michigan Great Lakes Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Junior Achievement of Mid-Michigan	$12,500	1	n/a
Haven House	$11,500	2	1%
Boy Scouts of America	$11,500	1	n/a
Grit Glam and Guts	$10,000	1	n/a
Communities in Schools of Michigan	$10,000	1	0%
Links Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Holocaust Memorial Center Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Greater Lansing Area Holiday Commission	$10,000	1	n/a
Accelerate4KIDS Foundation	$9,000	1	5%
Epifanynow	$7,500	1	47%
Small Talk Children's Advocacy Center	$7,500	1	1%
Road Runners Club of America Traverse City Track Club Inc	$7,000	1	2%
Mid-Michigan Moms	$6,500	1	n/a

Desk Drawer Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 49.

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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.

Capital Region Community FoundationMI44.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Capital Region Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Lansing Economic Area Partnership · DTE Energy Foundation · Lansing Rotary Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Joe D Pentecost Foundation · Louis Berkowitz Family Foundation Inc · Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation · Re Olds Foundation · Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation

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 Desk Drawer Fund

How much does Desk Drawer Fund give?: Desk Drawer Fund reported 17 itemized grants totaling $648,192, out of $688,194 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Desk Drawer Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (31%), Housing & Shelter (30%), Arts & Culture (19%).
Who are Desk Drawer Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Child and Family Charities ($432k), Traverse Symphony Orchestra D/B/A Traverse City Philharmonic ($200k), South Oakland Shelter ($200k).
Does Desk Drawer Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Desk Drawer Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Capital Region Community Foundation, Consumers Energy Foundation, Lansing Economic Area Partnership.
Where is Desk Drawer Fund based?: Desk Drawer Fund is based in MI.