Michigan · Public charity
Lansing Promise
We provide scholarships and support for Lansing students journeys to postsecondary completion.
- $416k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2026
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Itemized, FY2026
- $399k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2026
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $335,632
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 7
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 1
- Total assets, FY2026
- $3.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 57% of the organizations Lansing Promise funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 3 | $399k | 0% |
| FY2025 | 7 | $466k | 57% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $210k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $256k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $108k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $107k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $489k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $489k | 0% |
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 FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lansing Comm College | $1,456,928 | 9 | n/a |
| Michigan State University | $1,439,825 | 8 | n/a |
| Olivet College | $216,796 | 5 | 0% |
| Lansing Public Schools Educational | $112,236 | 5 | 35% |
| Brotherhood Against Drugs | $91,966 | 2 | 21% |
| United Way of South Central Michigan | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Capital Area United Way Inc | $22,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Village Lansing | $11,000 | 2 | n/a |
| All of the Above Hip Hop Academy | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Davenport University | $6,189 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lansing Comm College | $1,456,928 | 9 | n/a |
| Michigan State University | $1,439,825 | 8 | n/a |
| Olivet College | $216,796 | 5 | 0% |
| Lansing Public Schools Educational | $112,236 | 5 | 35% |
| Brotherhood Against Drugs | $91,966 | 2 | 21% |
| United Way of South Central Michigan | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Capital Area United Way Inc | $22,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Village Lansing | $11,000 | 2 | n/a |
| All of the Above Hip Hop Academy | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Davenport University | $6,189 | 1 | 0% |
| Lansing Economic Area Partnership | $5,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About Lansing Promise
- How much does Lansing Promise give?
- Lansing Promise reported 3 itemized grants totaling $399,078, out of $415,632 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Lansing Promise fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (95%), Philanthropy (3%), Health (1%).
- Who are Lansing Promise's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Lansing Comm College ($1.5M), Michigan State University ($1.4M), Olivet College ($217k).
- Does Lansing Promise fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lansing Promise?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Lansing Promise based?
- Lansing Promise is based in MI.
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