Michigan · Private foundation
Edwin and Jeanette May Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $212,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 17
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
- 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 Edwin and Jeanette May Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $725k 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 | 10 | $1.1M | 30% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $1.6M | 47% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $948k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $795k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $602k | 86% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canines for Service Inc | $950,000 | 5 | 23% |
| Lees-McRae College Inc | $848,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Hope Against Trafficking | $408,000 | 5 | 22% |
| Warrior Health Foundation Inc | $350,000 | 2 | 13% |
| First Things Foundation Inc | $340,300 | 3 | 39% |
| Lutheran Church of the Redeemer | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wings of Shelter Int'L Inc | $235,000 | 3 | 13% |
| Soar | $225,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Golden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 3% |
| St Bernadette Catholic Church | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canines for Service Inc | $950,000 | 5 | 23% |
| Lees-McRae College Inc | $848,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Hope Against Trafficking | $408,000 | 5 | 22% |
| Warrior Health Foundation Inc | $350,000 | 2 | 13% |
| First Things Foundation Inc | $340,300 | 3 | 39% |
| Lutheran Church of the Redeemer | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wings of Shelter Int'L Inc | $235,000 | 3 | 13% |
| Soar | $225,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Golden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 3% |
| St Bernadette Catholic Church | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Operation Light Shine | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tim Tebow Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Adopt an Angel | $50,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Laces of Love Charitable Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 6% |
| F O C U S Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| School District of Lee County | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Reading Is Fundamental Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Edwin and Jeanette May Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Collier Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Edwin and Jeanette May Foundation
- How much does Edwin and Jeanette May Foundation give?
- Edwin and Jeanette May Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $1,107,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Edwin and Jeanette May Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Animals (16%), International (11%).
- Who are Edwin and Jeanette May Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Canines for Service Inc ($950k), Lees-McRae College Inc ($848k), Hope Against Trafficking ($408k).
- Does Edwin and Jeanette May Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Edwin and Jeanette May Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Edwin and Jeanette May Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Collier Community Foundation Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Network for Good.
- Where is Edwin and Jeanette May Foundation based?
- Edwin and Jeanette May Foundation is based in MI.
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