· Private foundation
Fred & Florence Dengler Scholarship Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $19,500 |
| SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $11,500 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OLIVET | $5,000 |
| GRACE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| MADONNA UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| ALMA COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| HOPE COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| MICHIGAN TECH UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +7% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 2 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Michigan4× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +139%
- ACADRIAN COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +3%
- HCHOPE COLLEGE4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANone grant, 2023 · $3k
- NUNORTHWOOD UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $3k
- DCDELTA COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
Wabash college is a liberal arts college for men that educates them to think critically, act responsibly, lead effectively, and live humanely.
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
Davenport university prepares individuals and organizations to excel in the knowledge-driven environment of the 21st century.
The mission of kalamazoo college is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live sucessfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world. as a highly selective, nationally renowened…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college with an educational program known for its high standards for scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.
Spring arbor university is a community of learners distinguished by our lifelong involvement in the study and application of the liberal arts, total commitment to jesus christ as the perspective for learning and critical participation in…
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
The mission of calvin university is to equip students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as christ's agents of renewal in the world.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 98 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.
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 Gerber Foundation · Myer & Lois Franklin Charitable Tr · Wilson Scholarship Fund · Speerstra Peter & Evelyn · The VombergTrumley Foundation · Kanitz Louis J & Golda I Main Ac · Richard Baidas Memorial Scholarship Fund · Culver's Foundation Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fred & Florence Dengler Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fred & Florence Dengler Scholarship Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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