· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $242k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARINE MAMMAL CENTER | $73,000 |
| ELEPHANT SANCTUARY OF TENNESSEE | $35,000 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $32,500 |
| HOPE ON THE BEACH | $30,000 |
| MACOMB MACOMB COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN | $25,000 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| HONORING THE SACRIFICE | $24,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| GENESEE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,500 |
| PATHWAYS INC | $10,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM | $10,000 |
| YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $8,000 |
| CLEVELAND KOREAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $7,500 |
| GARRETS PLACE LIFE SKILLS CENTER FOR AUTISM | $7,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +47% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $523k · revenue +93%
- MCMACOMB COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $192k · revenue +93%
- THTHE HONORING THE SACRIFICE FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $160k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- CCCLASSICAL CHRISTIAN EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2021 · $26k
- UOUniversity of Michigangraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +195%
- ASAUTISM SUPPORT GROUP OF GENESSEE COUNTYone grant, 2018 · $8k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
Since 1951, the animal welfare institute has been dedicated to alleviating animal suffering caused by people. we seek to improve the welfare of animals everywhere: in agriculture, in commerce, in our homes and communities, in research, and…
To provide financial assistance to individuals and institutions for educational and scientific purposes in order to advance science to benefit the health and welfare of animals.
The mission of the michigan animal rescue league is to provide the highest quality of life to dogs and cats through rescue, medical care, socialization and behavioral support, short- and long-term sanctuary, adoption, and community…
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Friends of the detroit animal care and control is committed to ensuring equal access to companion animals for those of all socioeconomic levels and raising the care for animals living in detroit.
Spokanimal leads communities in humane/proactive ways to promote and preserve the human-companion animal bond.
Danbury animal welfare society , inc.(daws) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond. we promote responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals, and work toward…
How this is measured
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MACOMB COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HONORING THE SACRIFICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds GENESEE COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Garretts Place Life Skills Center for Autism ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tail Waggers 1990 ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE RE-INSITUTIONALIZAT ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR EWHA WOMANS UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LINK OF CULLMAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Brooklyn Poets Inc ↗
- Who funds EWHA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Theta Tau Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds Smokey Acres ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Sleeping Bear Dunes ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Foren Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foren Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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