Connecticut · Private foundation
Michaels Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $11k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $884k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Michaels Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 8 | $11k | 75% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $3k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $7k | 78% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $14k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $17k | 88% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $22k | 73% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $19k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $25k | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malta House Inc | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Connecticut Children's Medical Center | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Connecticut Association of Schools Inc | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mr Mo Project Senior Dog Rescue | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Alaqua Animal Refuge Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Mid-Fairfield Child Guidance Center Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($38k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Michaels Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Michaels Family Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Michaels Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Michaels Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Michaels Family Foundation Inc give?
- Michaels Family Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $11,103 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Michaels Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Health (19%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are Michaels Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Malta House Inc ($16k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($15k), Connecticut Children's Medical Center ($13k).
- Does Michaels Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Michaels Family Foundation Inc 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 Michaels Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Ion Bank Foundation Inc, Synchrony Foundation.
- Where is Michaels Family Foundation Inc based?
- Michaels Family Foundation Inc is based in CT.
Play a game based on Michaels Family’s filings →