Michigan · Private foundation
Fettig Family 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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,400
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,135,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 24
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Fettig Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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 | 19 | $1.3M | 32% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $452k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $253k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $233k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $161k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornerstone Alliance | $1,165,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Whirlpool Collective Impact Fund | $208,240 | 4 | n/a |
| Hoosiers for Good Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Vanderbilt University | $100,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Beechwood Educational Foundation Inc | $89,621 | 4 | 27% |
| St Joseph Public Schools Foundation | $88,000 | 5 | 2% |
| United Way of Southwest Michigan | $87,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Indiana University Foundation | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of America | $45,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Alex Mandarino Foundation | $33,150 | 5 | 22% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($137k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Fettig Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 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: Berrien Community Foundation Inc · The Marzke Family Foundation · The Covia Foundation · Degroot Family Foundation · Hanson Family Foundation · Whirlpool Foundation · Bill Nygren Foundation · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · American Electric Power Foundation · Harbor Shores Public Asset Fund Inc · Culture Need & Heritage Foundation · The McLoughlin Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Fettig Family Foundation
- How much does Fettig Family Foundation give?
- Fettig Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $1,320,390 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 24 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Fettig Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (44%), Education (14%), Philanthropy (10%).
- Who are Fettig Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Cornerstone Alliance ($1.2M), Whirlpool Collective Impact Fund ($208k), Hoosiers for Good Inc ($200k).
- Does Fettig Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fettig Family 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 Fettig Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berrien Community Foundation Inc, The Marzke Family Foundation, The Covia Foundation.
- Where is Fettig Family Foundation based?
- Fettig Family Foundation is based in MI.
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