Michigan · Private foundation
Fieldman 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.
- $90k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- 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 Fieldman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 12 | $90k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $90k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $83k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $61k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $100k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $75k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $35k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gesher Human Services | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Michigan | $44,000 | 6 | 3% |
| The Detroit Institute of Arts | $27,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc | $27,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Henry Ford Health System | $21,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Michigan State University | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Leader Dogs for the Blind | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lighthouse of Oakland County | $10,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Detroit Country Day School | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gesher Human Services | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Michigan | $44,000 | 6 | 3% |
| The Detroit Institute of Arts | $27,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc | $27,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Henry Ford Health System | $21,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Michigan State University | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Leader Dogs for the Blind | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lighthouse of Oakland County | $10,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Detroit Country Day School | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Detroit Zoological Society | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Washington University | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Michigan Humane Society | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| United Way for Southeastern Michigan | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Israel Magen Fund Inc | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Oxfam-America Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Society for Humanistic Judaism | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($374k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fieldman Family 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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Fieldman Family Foundation
- How much does Fieldman Family Foundation give?
- Fieldman Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $90,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fieldman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Religion (24%), Health (22%).
- Who are Fieldman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gesher Human Services ($45k), University of Michigan ($44k), The Detroit Institute of Arts ($27k).
- Does Fieldman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fieldman 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 Fieldman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Fieldman Family Foundation based?
- Fieldman Family Foundation is based in MI.
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