Michigan · Private foundation
McGregor Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $14M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 141
- Grants FY2025
- 89
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $650,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 89 to 116
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $235M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations McGregor Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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 | 109 | $13M | 28% |
| FY2024 | 89 | $9.4M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 93 | $8.4M | 32% |
| FY2022 | 97 | $8.9M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 116 | $9.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alternatives for Girls | $1,944,020 | 5 | 8% |
| Detroit Phoenix Center | $1,913,000 | 5 | 47% |
| United Community Housing Coalition | $1,730,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Cots | $1,600,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Foundation for Detroit's Future | $1,450,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Ruth Ellis Center | $1,402,510 | 5 | 8% |
| Avalon Healing Center | $1,182,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Keep Growing Detroit | $1,100,600 | 5 | 18% |
| Developing Kingdoms in Different Stages | $1,057,000 | 5 | 18% |
| Forgotten Harvest Inc | $1,050,206 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 186 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
McGregor Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 154 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · The Skillman Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Hudson-Webber Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation
How this is measured
About McGregor Fund
- How much does McGregor Fund give?
- McGregor Fund reported 141 grants totaling $13,511,248 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 89 and 116 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does McGregor Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (16%), Youth Development (14%), Community Improvement (14%).
- Who are McGregor Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Alternatives for Girls ($1.9M), Detroit Phoenix Center ($1.9M), United Community Housing Coalition ($1.7M).
- Does McGregor Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does McGregor Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as McGregor Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, United Way for Southeastern Michigan, The Skillman Foundation.
- Where is McGregor Fund based?
- McGregor Fund is based in MI.
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