Michigan · Private foundation
Ethel and James Flinn Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 83
- Grants FY2024
- 69
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 64 to 79
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $60M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 41% of the organizations Ethel and James Flinn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $760k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 67 | $2.9M | 28% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $2.7M | 41% |
| FY2022 | 79 | $2.8M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 76 | $2.9M | 45% |
| FY2020 | 64 | $2.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Ford Health System | $850,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network | $475,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $420,800 | 4 | n/a |
| Childrens Center of Wayne County Inc | $420,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Southwest Detroit Community Justice | $400,000 | 4 | 63% |
| Trinity Health - Michigan | $375,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Michigan's Children | $297,500 | 5 | 21% |
| Starfish Family Services Inc | $252,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Zaman International | $228,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Vista Maria | $225,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 134 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ethel and James Flinn Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 120 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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · DTE Energy Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · The Carls Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · The Jewish Fund · Ford Philanthropy · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · McGregor Fund
How this is measured
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About Ethel and James Flinn Foundation
- How much does Ethel and James Flinn Foundation give?
- Ethel and James Flinn Foundation reported 83 grants totaling $2,886,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 64 and 79 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Ethel and James Flinn Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (51%), Human Services (22%), Crime & Legal (9%).
- Who are Ethel and James Flinn Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Henry Ford Health System ($850k), Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network ($475k), Regents of the University of Michigan ($421k).
- Does Ethel and James Flinn Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ethel and James Flinn Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ethel and James Flinn Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, United Way for Southeastern Michigan, Michigan Health Endowment Fund.
- Where is Ethel and James Flinn Foundation based?
- Ethel and James Flinn Foundation is based in MI.
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