Michigan · Private foundation
Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 111
- Grants FY2025
- 101
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $269,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 70 to 115
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $51M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $730k 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 | 110 | $3.8M | 47% |
| FY2024 | 101 | $3.6M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 95 | $3.1M | 44% |
| FY2022 | 115 | $4.1M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 84 | $2.9M | 44% |
| FY2020 | 110 | $3.8M | 48% |
| FY2019 | 73 | $3.0M | 51% |
| FY2018 | 70 | $3.2M | 61% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interlochen Center for the Arts | $1,148,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Trinity Health - Michigan | $1,000,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Michigan Theater Foundation Inc | $885,000 | 7 | 4% |
| American Bird Conservancy | $850,235 | 6 | 1% |
| St Louis Center | $551,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Planned Parenthood of Michigan | $527,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Midland Center for the Arts Inc | $500,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Freedom River Inc | $500,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Calvin University | $475,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ozone House Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 4% |
Show all 284 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 133 recipients with no EIN on record ($10M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · United Way of Washtenaw County · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · James a and Faith Knight Foundation · The Carls Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Midland Area Community Foundation · The Martin Family Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Trinity Health - Michigan
How this is measured
Compare Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation with peer funders
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About Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation
- How much does Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation give?
- Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation reported 111 grants totaling $3,811,102 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 115 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (21%), Education (21%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Interlochen Center for the Arts ($1.1M), Trinity Health - Michigan ($1.0M), Michigan Theater Foundation Inc ($885k).
- Does Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation, United Way of Washtenaw County, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan.
- Where is Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation based?
- Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation is based in MI.
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