Michigan · Private foundation
Foren 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.
- $400k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $73,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 44
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Foren Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% 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 | 32 | $398k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $400k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $399k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $500k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $500k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $350k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $300k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $300k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Marine Mammal Center | $523,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Macomb Community College Foundation | $191,500 | 8 | 1% |
| The Honoring the Sacrifice Foundation | $160,000 | 8 | 24% |
| Alaqua Animal Refuge Inc | $98,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Genesee County Educational Foundation | $77,347 | 7 | 78% |
| Kent State University Foundation | $71,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Garretts Place Life Skills Center for Autism | $71,119 | 8 | 23% |
| Pathways Inc | $63,250 | 7 | 1% |
| Ohio State University Foundation | $54,311 | 3 | 0% |
| Tail Waggers 1990 | $40,500 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Foren Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 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: The Hough Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About Foren Family Foundation
- How much does Foren Family Foundation give?
- Foren Family Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $400,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Foren Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (32%), Education (28%), Health (10%).
- Who are Foren Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Marine Mammal Center ($523k), Macomb Community College Foundation ($192k), The Honoring the Sacrifice Foundation ($160k).
- Does Foren Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Foren 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 Foren Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hough Foundation, DTE Energy Foundation, The Kresge Foundation.
- Where is Foren Family Foundation based?
- Foren Family Foundation is based in MI.
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