Michigan · Private foundation
Mary I McLeod 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.
- $191k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $18,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 33
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $134k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Mary I McLeod Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | $191k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $141k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $248k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $48k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $64k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $51k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grosse Pointe Theatre Inc | $66,075 | 6 | 9% |
| Grosse Pointe Animal Adoption Society | $40,525 | 6 | 2% |
| Mercy High School | $35,000 | 3 | n/a |
| University of Detroit Mercy | $26,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Michigan State University | $25,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Michigan Humane Society | $23,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Early Childhood Initiative Inc | $19,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Leader Dogs for the Blind | $17,900 | 5 | 0% |
| Neighborhood Club | $16,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Say Detroit | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($398k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mary I McLeod 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: Doris J & Donald L Duchene Foundation C/O David Findling · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · S Gary Spicer Sr Foundation · Joanne Nicolay Foundation · William & Martha Ford Fund · Dolores and Paul Lavins Foundation · Alice Kales Hartwick Foundation · Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation · Lynn & Paul Alandt Foundation · McGregor Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
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About Mary I McLeod Foundation
- How much does Mary I McLeod Foundation give?
- Mary I McLeod Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $191,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Mary I McLeod Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Arts & Culture (18%), Animals (9%).
- Who are Mary I McLeod Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Grosse Pointe Theatre Inc ($66k), Grosse Pointe Animal Adoption Society ($41k), Mercy High School ($35k).
- Does Mary I McLeod Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mary I McLeod 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 Mary I McLeod Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Doris J & Donald L Duchene Foundation C/O David Findling, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, S Gary Spicer Sr Foundation.
- Where is Mary I McLeod Foundation based?
- Mary I McLeod Foundation is based in MI.
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