Michigan · Private foundation
Fabiano Foundation
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.
- $479k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $191,530
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Fabiano Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 14 | $479k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $317k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $308k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $286k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $314k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $329k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $303k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $286k | 53% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Michigan University | $484,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Great Lakes Center for the Arts | $30,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Indiana University Foundation | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Michigan | $20,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Humane Animal Treatment Society Inc | $15,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Temple Theatre Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Little Traverse Conservancy Inc | $11,000 | 7 | 0% |
| McLaren Northern Michigan Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Little Traverse Bay Humane Society | $9,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fabiano Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd · Consumers Energy Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Mps Foundation · The Morey Foundation · William T & Ann D McCormick Educational and Charitable Foundation · Triford Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · The Offield Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Fabiano Foundation
- How much does Fabiano Foundation give?
- Fabiano Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $478,530 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fabiano Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (28%), Education (17%), Health (17%).
- Who are Fabiano Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Central Michigan University ($484k), Regents of the University of Michigan ($40k), Great Lakes Center for the Arts ($30k).
- Does Fabiano Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fabiano Foundation 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 Fabiano Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation, Frey Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan.
- Where is Fabiano Foundation based?
- Fabiano Foundation is based in MI.
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