Michigan · Private foundation
Gougeon Employees Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $120k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 70
- Grants FY2024
- 60
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
64% of Gougeon Employees Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Bay Area Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 35 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Gougeon Employees Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 34 organizations, $120k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,200
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $13,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 61
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $10k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Gougeon Employees Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 70 | $120k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 60 | $66k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $91k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 61 | $109k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $82k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Bay County | $76,700 | 6 | 2% |
| Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan | $26,530 | 6 | 0% |
| Adoption Option Inc | $25,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Delta College Foundation | $24,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Bay Veterans Foundation | $23,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Brian's House Community Group Inc | $20,150 | 5 | 2% |
| River Jordan Inc | $19,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy | $16,652 | 6 | 1% |
| Bay Area Women's Center | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Disability Services Resource Center | $11,000 | 6 | 2% |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 90 recipients with no EIN on record ($219k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gougeon Employees 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: Bay Area Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Saginaw Community Foundation · Morley Foundation · Midland Area Community Foundation · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · The Kantzler Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Frankenmuth Insurance Foundation
How this is measured
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About Gougeon Employees Foundation
- How much does Gougeon Employees Foundation give?
- Gougeon Employees Foundation reported 70 grants totaling $120,275 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 61 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Gougeon Employees Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (16%), Youth Development (13%), Education (13%).
- Who are Gougeon Employees Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: United Way of Bay County ($77k), Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan ($27k), Adoption Option Inc ($25k).
- Does Gougeon Employees Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gougeon Employees Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gougeon Employees Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bay Area Community Foundation, Consumers Energy Foundation, Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Gougeon Employees Foundation based?
- Gougeon Employees Foundation is based in MI.
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