Michigan · Private foundation
Margaret Dunning Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations Margaret Dunning Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $458k 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 | 27 | $980k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $1.0M | 48% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $952k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $1.0M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $1.0M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $1.0M | 57% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $858k | 71% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $890k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| College for Creative Studies | $1,014,750 | 7 | 0% |
| Oakland Schools | $338,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Vehicles for Change Inc | $335,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Plymouth Parc Inc | $305,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Plymouth Historical Society | $285,000 | 6 | 31% |
| Flint Cultural Center Corporation | $254,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Redford Interfaith Relief | $208,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Arc of Northwest Wayne County | $171,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Living & Learning Enrichment Center | $170,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Ecorse Public Schools | $155,000 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 52 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Margaret Dunning Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Wilcox Foundation · Orsa Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Canton Community Foundation Inc · The Kresge Foundation · Community Financial Credit Union · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation
How this is measured
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About Margaret Dunning Foundation
- How much does Margaret Dunning Foundation give?
- Margaret Dunning Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $1,112,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Margaret Dunning Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Arts & Culture (15%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are Margaret Dunning Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: College for Creative Studies ($1.0M), Oakland Schools ($338k), Vehicles for Change Inc ($335k).
- Does Margaret Dunning Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Margaret Dunning Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Margaret Dunning Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, DTE Energy Foundation, Ford Philanthropy.
- Where is Margaret Dunning Foundation based?
- Margaret Dunning Foundation is based in MI.
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