· Private foundation
Joseph and Karen Krantz Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $86k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICINE | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ENDOWMENT | $50,000 |
| MICHIGAN MEDICINE PATIENT EXP | $21,430 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MARCHING BAND | $20,000 |
| OUR LADY OF PEACE ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $20,000 |
| SVSU FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BRIAN'S HOUSE | $10,000 |
| HARBOR SPRINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY | $5,000 |
| NATE AND MARY IDA DOAN SANTA HOUSE | $3,050 |
| ELE'S PLACE | $1,000 |
| GREAT LAKES DREAM CENTER | $640 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% 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
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICINE6× · 2019–2025 · $310k
- CMCENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2024 · $190k
- UOUniversity of Michigan2× · 2021–2022 · $124k · revenue +96% · 37% of their budget
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANone grant, 2018 · $40k
- CCCAN COUNCIL BAY COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $20k
- RSRACHEL SOVEREIGN MEMORIAL HOMEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $18k · revenue +102%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Humane society of southwestern michigan exists to provide shelter and care for sick, homeless and unwanted animals. in addition, the organization provides adoption services for the animals in its care.
To promote a violence free atmosphere from domestic and sexual violence in which survivors can recognize their options to have the opportunity to continue living violence free and regain their sense of self-worth; to educate and raise…
To shelter and find forever homes for homeless dogs and cats.
Lighthouse mi endeavors to build equitable communities and alleviate poverty in partnership with and in service to individuals, families, and organizations.
The Betterment of the lives of stray, owned and abandoned companion animals in Saginaw County, MI. Our county has over 20,000 households living below the federal poverty guidelines that own at least one pet. We are their safety net. We…
Our mission is to provide an adoption-friendly animal shelter that will unify the community toward a common goal of responsible animal treatment and increased animal adoptions to design and incorporate new education and public programs…
Provide care for homeless/abused animals
The mission of gw homeless services of northern michigan, inc is to provide safe, supportive shelter to individuals experiencing homelessness.the 2023 990 was for 10/1-12/31/23 due to an accounting period change.
Animal shelter - provide a safe haven for animals without homes.
Our mission is to increase awareness of the problems of people who are homeless and the development and carrying out of strategies to create permanent solutions to homelessness in our community.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
To eliminate sub-standard housing and homelessness from lapeer county.
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds RACHEL SOVEREIGN MEMORIAL HOME ↗
- Who funds BAY VETERANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN HARVEST ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds NATE AND MARY IDA DOAN SANTA HOUSE ↗
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: Consumers Energy Foundation · Gougeon Employees Foundation · Bay Area Community Foundation · Nickless Family Charitable Foundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joseph and Karen Krantz Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph and Karen Krantz Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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