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Garber Automotive Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$894k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$285,242
Organizations funded a year
10 to 11
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$15M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Garber Automotive Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$852k30%
FY202310$639k50%
FY202211$563kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$1.1MHealth$225kEducation$220kHuman Services$143kHousing & Shelter$105kAnimals$100kPhilanthropy$67kEnvironment$50kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Garber Automotive Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Greater Midland Community Ctrs Inc$750,00032%
Friends of Hoyt Park$347,7422n/a
Covenant Healthcare Foundation$150,00032%
Saginaw Valley Zoological Society$100,00022%
Blood Cancer United Inc$60,41220%
Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan$50,00011%
Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy$50,00017%
Saginaw-Shiawassee Habitat for Humanity$45,00032%
Fish Tales$20,00012%
Child Abuse & Neglect Council Great Lakes Bay Region$10,00011%
Well of Saginaw$10,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($461k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Garber Automotive Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Midland Community Ctrs Inc: $750,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCovenant Healthcare Foundation: $150,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSaginaw Valley Zoological Society: $100,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $60,412 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSaginaw Basin Land Conservancy: $50,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetSaginaw-Shiawassee Habitat for Humanity: $45,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetFish Tales: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetChild Abuse & Neglect Council Great Lakes Bay Region: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 9.

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.

Bierlein Companies FoundationMI22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bierlein Companies Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Saginaw Community Foundation · Alice E Turner Memorial Trust · Tri-Star Charitable Foundation · Morley Foundation · Yeo Family Foundation · Boutell Memorial Fund · Frank N Andersen Foundation · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Consumers Energy 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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Find your warmest path to Garber Automotive Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Garber Automotive Foundation

How much does Garber Automotive Foundation give?
Garber Automotive Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $893,909 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 11 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Garber Automotive Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (52%), Health (11%), Education (10%).
Who are Garber Automotive Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Greater Midland Community Ctrs Inc ($750k), Friends of Hoyt Park ($348k), Covenant Healthcare Foundation ($150k).
Does Garber Automotive Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Garber Automotive 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 Garber Automotive Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bierlein Companies Foundation, Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation, Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation.
Where is Garber Automotive Foundation based?
Garber Automotive 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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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