Michigan · Private foundation
Mary Thompson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $240k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Mary Thompson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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 | 35 | $240k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $218k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $215k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $203k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $212k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $197k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $180k | 37% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $178k | 64% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wings Home | $114,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Accounting Aid Society | $98,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Pope Francis Center | $91,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Alpena Area Senior Citizens Council Inc | $58,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Respite Volunteers of Shiawassee | $57,500 | 8 | 8% |
| Detroit Opera | $51,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Forgotten Harvest Inc | $44,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Gilda's Club Metro Detroit | $38,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Mittens for Detroit Inc | $37,000 | 6 | 4% |
| The Jackson Friendly Home | $37,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 63 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($542k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mary Thompson 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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · The Carls Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Helen L Kay Charitable Trust · Comerica Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Mary Thompson Foundation
- How much does Mary Thompson Foundation give?
- Mary Thompson Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $239,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mary Thompson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Health (15%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are Mary Thompson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wings Home ($114k), Accounting Aid Society ($98k), Pope Francis Center ($91k).
- Does Mary Thompson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mary Thompson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mary Thompson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, United Way for Southeastern Michigan, DTE Energy Foundation.
- Where is Mary Thompson Foundation based?
- Mary Thompson Foundation is based in MI.
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