Michigan · Private foundation
Dragonfly Fund
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.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 31
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $43M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Dragonfly Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 88% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M 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 | 15 | $2.5M | 7% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $11M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $887k | 68% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $391k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Community Foundation | $10,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Little Traverse Conservancy Inc | $3,235,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Children's Healing Center | $300,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Harbor Springs Lyric Theatre | $250,000 | 1 | 19% |
| Grand Valley State University | $150,000 | 3 | n/a |
| National Constitution Center | $125,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Writers Series of Traverse City | $92,500 | 2 | 11% |
| The Vandenberg Coalition Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Northwest Mi Habitat for Humanity | $75,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Literacy Center of West Michigan | $75,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($310k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dragonfly Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 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: The Meijer Foundation · Frey Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Daniel & Pamella Devos Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · The David and Carol Van Andel Family Foundation · Ufp Industries Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Dragonfly Fund?
Find your warmest path to Dragonfly Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Dragonfly Fund
- How much does Dragonfly Fund give?
- Dragonfly Fund reported 15 grants totaling $2,494,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 31 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Dragonfly Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (66%), Environment (22%), Arts & Culture (6%).
- Who are Dragonfly Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Chicago Community Foundation ($10M), Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ($3.2M), Children's Healing Center ($300k).
- Does Dragonfly Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dragonfly Fund 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 Dragonfly Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Meijer Foundation, Frey Foundation, Grand Rapids Community Foundation.
- Where is Dragonfly Fund based?
- Dragonfly Fund is based in MI.
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