Michigan · Private foundation
Joe & Pamela Kay 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.
- $463k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Joe & Pamela Kay Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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 | 21 | $440k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $404k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $1.0M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $257k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $250k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beyond Basics | $250,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Forgotten Harvest Inc | $190,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Old Newsboys Goodfellow Fund of Detroit Michigan | $130,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Dutton Farm | $126,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Justice for Lily | $45,000 | 2 | 29% |
| Brilliant Detroit | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Detroit Public Media | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Birmingham Bloomfield Art Ctr Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Innocence Project Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Joe & Pamela Kay Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About Joe & Pamela Kay Foundation
- How much does Joe & Pamela Kay Foundation give?
- Joe & Pamela Kay Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $462,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Joe & Pamela Kay Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (47%), Human Services (23%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
- Who are Joe & Pamela Kay Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Beyond Basics ($250k), Forgotten Harvest Inc ($190k), Old Newsboys Goodfellow Fund of Detroit Michigan ($130k).
- Does Joe & Pamela Kay Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joe & Pamela Kay 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 Joe & Pamela Kay Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, DTE Energy Foundation, The Kresge Foundation.
- Where is Joe & Pamela Kay Foundation based?
- Joe & Pamela Kay Foundation is based in MI.
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