Michigan · Private foundation
Joseph and Karen Krantz Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $256k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Joseph and Karen Krantz Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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 | 13 | $256k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $220k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $218k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $232k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $256k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $129k | 64% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $100k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $92k | 60% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Michigan University | $190,000 | 6 | n/a |
| University of Michigan | $123,658 | 2 | 37% |
| Food Bank of Eastern Michigan | $65,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Bay City Public Schools | $46,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Saginaw Valley State University | $33,210 | 2 | n/a |
| Rachel Sovereign Memorial Home | $18,252 | 1 | 4% |
| Bay Veterans Foundation | $12,900 | 1 | 5% |
| Community Action Network | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Michigan University | $190,000 | 6 | n/a |
| University of Michigan | $123,658 | 2 | 37% |
| Food Bank of Eastern Michigan | $65,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Bay City Public Schools | $46,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Saginaw Valley State University | $33,210 | 2 | n/a |
| Rachel Sovereign Memorial Home | $18,252 | 1 | 4% |
| Bay Veterans Foundation | $12,900 | 1 | 5% |
| Community Action Network | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Resurrection Lutheran Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Humane Society of Huron Valley | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hidden Harvest | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Council on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault | $3,962 | 2 | 0% |
| Nate and Mary Ida Doan Santa House | $3,050 | 1 | n/a |
| Ele's Place Inc | $2,029 | 2 | 0% |
| Great Lakes Dream Center | $640 | 1 | n/a |
| Amazing Grace Animal Rescue | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| House by the Side of the Road | $466 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($990k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Joseph and Karen Krantz Family Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 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.
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How this is measured
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About Joseph and Karen Krantz Family Charitable Trust
- How much does Joseph and Karen Krantz Family Charitable Trust give?
- Joseph and Karen Krantz Family Charitable Trust reported 13 grants totaling $256,120 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Joseph and Karen Krantz Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Health (29%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
- Who are Joseph and Karen Krantz Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Central Michigan University ($190k), University of Michigan ($124k), Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ($65k).
- Does Joseph and Karen Krantz Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joseph and Karen Krantz Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph and Karen Krantz Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Consumers Energy Foundation, Gougeon Employees Foundation, Bay Area Community Foundation.
- Where is Joseph and Karen Krantz Family Charitable Trust based?
- Joseph and Karen Krantz Family Charitable Trust is based in MI.
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