Michigan · Private foundation
Laybel 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.
- $881k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 56
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Laybel Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k 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 | 15 | $838k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $1.7M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $947k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $870k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $722k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $576k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $221k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 56 | $117k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc | $985,000 | 6 | 1% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $750,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Count Mi Vote Education Fund | $432,000 | 7 | 8% |
| Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan | $367,000 | 8 | 0% |
| United States Association for UNHCR | $338,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Center for Michigan | $225,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Hias Inc | $185,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Michigan Nature Association | $149,500 | 7 | 5% |
| Michigan Advocacy Program | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pro Publica Inc | $90,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Laybel Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Kresge Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · McGregor Fund · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Laybel Family Foundation
- How much does Laybel Family Foundation give?
- Laybel Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $881,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 56 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Laybel Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (20%), Education (15%), International (13%).
- Who are Laybel Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc ($985k), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($751k), Count Mi Vote Education Fund ($432k).
- Does Laybel Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Laybel Family 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 Laybel Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Kresge Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, McGregor Fund.
- Where is Laybel Family Foundation based?
- Laybel Family Foundation is based in MI.
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