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Frederick a Vollbrecht Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$95k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
17%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.9M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Frederick a Vollbrecht Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$95k17%
FY20246$90k17%
FY20235$63k0%
FY20223$63k0%
FY20218$184k13%
FY20207$91k0%
FY20196$83k67%
FY20186$62k83%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$203kHuman Services$182kYouth Development$135kEducation$130kHealth$109kPhilanthropy$22kEmployment$10kRecreation & Sports$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($407k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Frederick a Vollbrecht Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWalsh College of Accountancy & Business Administration: $130,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Troy: $75,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetThe Rainbow Connection: $65,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetVariety Club Charity for Children Dba Variety the Children's Charity: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAlternatives for Girls: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFar Conservatory of Therapeutic and Performing Arts: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMichigan Arts Access: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetNew Horizons Rehabilitation Services Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWilliams Syndrome Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOn My Own of Michigan: $9,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGrace Centers of Hope: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Frederick a Vollbrecht Foundation

How much does Frederick a Vollbrecht Foundation give?
Frederick a Vollbrecht Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $95,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Frederick a Vollbrecht Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Human Services (23%), Youth Development (17%).
Who are Frederick a Vollbrecht Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Walsh College of Accountancy & Business Administration ($130k), Boys & Girls Club of Troy ($75k), The Rainbow Connection ($65k).
Does Frederick a Vollbrecht Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Frederick a Vollbrecht Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Frederick a Vollbrecht Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Enterprise Holdings Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America.
Where is Frederick a Vollbrecht Foundation based?
Frederick a Vollbrecht Foundation is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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