Michigan · Private foundation
Louis C Blumberg 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.
- $122k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $33,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 6
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $900k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Louis C Blumberg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 9 | $122k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $133k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $68k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $94k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $45k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $54k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $155k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $148k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friendship Circle | $216,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Detroit Jewish News Foundation Inc | $175,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network | $125,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Hillel Day School of Metro Detroit | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Arizona Jewish Historical Society | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jarc | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Kids Kicking Cancer Inc | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Inc | $3,200 | 1 | 2% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $1,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Jean and Samuel Frankel Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friendship Circle | $216,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Detroit Jewish News Foundation Inc | $175,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network | $125,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Hillel Day School of Metro Detroit | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Arizona Jewish Historical Society | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jarc | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Kids Kicking Cancer Inc | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Inc | $3,200 | 1 | 2% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $1,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Jean and Samuel Frankel Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Holocaust Memorial Center Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($327k), not named here.
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: Karp Family Foundation · Hermelin Family Support Foundation · Shari & Alon Friendship Foundation Inc · The Sherman Family Foundation · The Irving and Ethel Palman Foundation · Madeleine H and Mandell L Berman Support Foundation · The Bruce H and Rosalie N Rosen Family Foundation · Woll-Yellin Family Foundation · Mickey Shapiro Charitable Trust · Pappas Foundation Inc · The Eisenberg Family Foundation · David Kahan Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Louis C Blumberg Foundation
- How much does Louis C Blumberg Foundation give?
- Louis C Blumberg Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $121,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Louis C Blumberg Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Youth Development (22%), Health (14%).
- Who are Louis C Blumberg Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friendship Circle ($216k), The Detroit Jewish News Foundation Inc ($175k), Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network ($125k).
- Does Louis C Blumberg Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Louis C Blumberg 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 Louis C Blumberg Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Karp Family Foundation, Hermelin Family Support Foundation, Shari & Alon Friendship Foundation Inc.
- Where is Louis C Blumberg Foundation based?
- Louis C Blumberg Foundation is based in MI.
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