Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Greater Lansing Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $658k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
74% of Greater Lansing Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Capital Region Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,800
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $489,769
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Greater Lansing Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 22 | $168k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $151k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $130k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $110k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $76k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $149k | 4% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $111k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $89k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ingham County Humane Society | $102,390 | 9 | 0% |
| Edward W Sparrow Hospital | $79,685 | 9 | 0% |
| National Anti-Vivisection Society | $57,828 | 9 | 0% |
| American Humane Association | $57,828 | 9 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $57,828 | 9 | n/a |
| Humane World for Animals Inc | $57,828 | 9 | 0% |
| University Rehabilitation Alliance Inc | $15,717 | 2 | 0% |
| Capital Area District Library | $6,902 | 9 | n/a |
| Impression 5 Science Center | $5,100 | 1 | 0% |
| Potter Park Zoological Society | $4,400 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ingham County Humane Society | $102,390 | 9 | 0% |
| Edward W Sparrow Hospital | $79,685 | 9 | 0% |
| National Anti-Vivisection Society | $57,828 | 9 | 0% |
| American Humane Association | $57,828 | 9 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $57,828 | 9 | n/a |
| Humane World for Animals Inc | $57,828 | 9 | 0% |
| University Rehabilitation Alliance Inc | $15,717 | 2 | 0% |
| Capital Area District Library | $6,902 | 9 | n/a |
| Impression 5 Science Center | $5,100 | 1 | 0% |
| Potter Park Zoological Society | $4,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Library of Michigan Foundation | $3,313 | 1 | 2% |
| Disability Network Capital Area | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hospice of Lansing | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Dkg Supporting Corporation | $925 | 5 | 0% |
| Dkg International Educators Foundation | $920 | 4 | 0% |
| Forster Woods Adult Day Services | $600 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($587k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Greater Lansing 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: Capital Region Community Foundation · Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation · Delta Dental Plan of Michigan Inc · Consumers Energy Foundation · Lansing Economic Area Partnership · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Greater Lansing Foundation
- How much does Greater Lansing Foundation give?
- Greater Lansing Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $658,042 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Greater Lansing Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (84%), Animals (4%), Health (4%).
- Who are Greater Lansing Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ingham County Humane Society ($102k), Edward W Sparrow Hospital ($80k), National Anti-Vivisection Society ($58k).
- Does Greater Lansing Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Greater Lansing Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Greater Lansing Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Capital Region Community Foundation, Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation, Delta Dental Plan of Michigan Inc.
- Where is Greater Lansing Foundation based?
- Greater Lansing Foundation is based in PA.
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