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Ed & Irene Fleis Education Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$95k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
79
Grants FY2025
72
Organizations funded FY2024
47%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,200
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,200
Organizations funded a year
50 to 78
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
10
Total assets, FY2025
$1.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Ed & Irene Fleis Education Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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 arriving79$95k62%
FY202472$86k47%
FY202378$92k51%
FY202276$90k61%
FY202164$72k45%
FY202066$66k58%
FY201961$61k66%
FY201850$50k66%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$543kPhilanthropy$18kYouth Development$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CO
MO
KS
AR
NC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2025.

Individual grant recipient$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,200

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Find your warmest path to Ed & Irene Fleis Education Foundation 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 Ed & Irene Fleis Education Foundation

How much does Ed & Irene Fleis Education Foundation give?
Ed & Irene Fleis Education Foundation reported 79 grants totaling $94,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 78 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Ed & Irene Fleis Education Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (96%), Philanthropy (3%), Youth Development (0%).
Does Ed & Irene Fleis Education Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ed & Irene Fleis Education Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Ed & Irene Fleis Education Foundation based?
Ed & Irene Fleis Education 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 354 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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