How much does Michael Singer Foundation give?

Michael Singer Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $14,513 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Michael Singer Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Environment (17%), Health (11%).

Who are Michael Singer Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Healthy Aquatics Marine Institute of Florida Inc ($23k), Art in the Neighborhood ($20k), Brattleboro Museum & Art Centerinc ($14k).

Does Michael Singer Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Michael Singer 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 Michael Singer Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc, Periwinkle Foundation Inc.

Where is Michael Singer Foundation based?

Michael Singer Foundation is based in VT.

Michael Singer Foundation

Michael Singer Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Michael Singer 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.

$15k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$7k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$55kEnvironment$34kHealth$21kReligion$20kYouth Development$15kHousing & Shelter$15kEducation$13kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0

02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE REEF INSTITUTE	$6,513
WALKER WILDLIFE FILMS INC	$2,000
COMMUNITY GREENING CORP	$2,000
ART IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD	$2,000
THE LANDMARK TRUST USA	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 15% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$162k · 27 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$162k

$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%

+6%

Still filing today

67%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEnvironmentHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

HA
HEALTHY AQUATICS MARINE INSTITUTE OF FLORIDA INC
3× · 2018–2023 · $23k · revenue +397%
BM
BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM & ART CENTERINC
7× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +80%
BF
Bound For College Inc
5× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +212%

Funded once

MR
Maria Regina RC Church
one grant, 2020 · $3k
OL
One Love One Community Foundation Inc
one grant, 2017 · $3k
TA
THE ARMORY ART CENTER INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +44%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Stone Barns Restoration Corp Dba Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri

Stone barns center is a nonprofit farm, education, and research center with a mission to catalyze an ecological food culture. since 2004, we have been driving innovation in sustainable farming practices and mindful food choices that…

Arts & Culture

Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment

Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc

Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…

Environment

Groundwork Southcoast Inc

To bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social…

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Woodstock Land Conservancy Inc

Acquire land and easements to preserve and enhance the open lands, forests, water resources, scenic areas and historical sights of the Woodstock, NY area. Steward protected lands and offer educational programs and events regarding nature…

Environment

Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment

The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services

Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc

The center for an agricultural economy supports rural communities and working landscapes by building a more interconnected local food system.

Environment

Barnstable Land Trust Inc

Preservation of undeveloped land in the town of barnstable and nearby areas

Environment

Wright-Locke Farm Conservancy Inc

The wright-locke farm conservancy builds broad community and seeks to model sustainable practices through active learning, organic agriculture, land stewardship, and an appreciation of our historic new england farm.

Environment

Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.

Food & Nutrition

Southern Vermont Arts Center Inc Po Box 617

As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Council On the Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 60 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/35

Grantees still filing

24/35

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$96,763Arts & Culture$43,750Environment$34,700Health$10,000Animals$9,000Youth Development$8,000Housing & Shelter$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Vermont Community FoundationVT21.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Periwinkle Foundation Inc · Sorg-Vogt Charitable Foundation Trust 3844 · Thomas Thompson Trust · The Windham Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Allegany Franciscan Ministries Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Michael Singer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael Singer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

6rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home