Michigan · Private foundation
Gary Sisters Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $116k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $21,100
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $866k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Gary Sisters Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 | 27 | $116k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $113k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $109k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $126k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $99k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $81k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $76k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $63k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kalamazoo Junior Golf Association | $56,000 | 8 | 16% |
| Kalamazoo Valley Community College Foundation | $54,600 | 3 | 1% |
| Open Doors Kalamazoo | $38,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Specialized Language Development Center Inc | $33,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Housing Resources Inc | $32,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Special Olympics Michigan Inc | $30,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Kalamazoo Civic Theatre | $29,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Kalamazoo Eastside Boxing | $27,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Community Homeworks Inc | $22,000 | 6 | 0% |
| First Day Shoe Fund | $21,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($391k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gary Sisters Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Ws & Lois Vandalson Foundation · H P & Genevieve Connable Fund · WK Kellogg Foundation
How this is measured
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About Gary Sisters Foundation
- How much does Gary Sisters Foundation give?
- Gary Sisters Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $115,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gary Sisters Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Recreation & Sports (15%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
- Who are Gary Sisters Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kalamazoo Junior Golf Association ($56k), Kalamazoo Valley Community College Foundation ($55k), Open Doors Kalamazoo ($38k).
- Does Gary Sisters Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gary Sisters Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gary Sisters Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kalamazoo Community Foundation, Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc, Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation.
- Where is Gary Sisters Foundation based?
- Gary Sisters Foundation is based in MI.
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