· Private foundation
Keough Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k8 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASM INTERNATIONAL | $60,000 |
| FOUNDRY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| 826 NATIONAL | $20,000 |
| ADVENTURE UNLIMITED - DISCOVERY BND | $17,500 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF THE USA | $17,500 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $17,500 |
| SEMPER FI FUND | $17,500 |
| BUILD CHANGE | $15,000 |
| US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER FOUND | $15,000 |
| SHOP RAT FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| TREEHOUSE | $15,000 |
| ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS | $15,000 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION ORG | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $7,500 |
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, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 21% of Keough Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 32% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 18%.
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 +37% since the first grant, against -44% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 14 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 Michigan9× · 2017–2025 · $557k · revenue +202%
- TTREEHOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +172%
- SFSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND9× · 2017–2025 · $113k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- F(FIRST (FOR INSPIRATION AND RECOGNITION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)one grant, 2022 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
To sponsor and conduct educational conferences, seminars, workshops and symposia for purposes of informing members and other interested parties on current research, legislation and practices in all phases of employee reward programs…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 39 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 FOUNDRY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION DBA FEF ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds 826 National Inc ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds THE SHOP RAT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUILD CHANGE ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds REMOUNT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR REACH ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Keough Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Keough Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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