Wisconsin · Private foundation
Michels Family 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.
- $3.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Michels Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k 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 | 32 | $3.2M | 31% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $2.2M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $2.1M | 34% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $2.2M | 16% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $1.7M | 40% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $2.7M | 35% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $3.2M | 27% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $1.7M | 61% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marquette University | $5,002,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Marian University Inc | $2,750,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Agnesian Healthcare Foundation Inc | $2,567,000 | 5 | 25% |
| St Norbert College Inc | $1,333,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Saint Francis de Sales Seminary | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Marys Springs Academy | $832,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Fond Du Lac Wi Inc | $590,000 | 7 | 6% |
| St Marys Catholic Church | $495,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Winnebago Lutheran Academy | $352,500 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Michels Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 55 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Fond Du Lac Area Foundation · Grande Foundation · Kevin and Connie Michels Family Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Mid-States Aluminum Foundation Inc · Mike Shannon Automotive Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Agnesian Healthcare Inc · Jf Ahern Co Foundation · Sadoff Family Foundation · Patrick & Marysue Michels Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Michels Family Foundation
- How much does Michels Family Foundation give?
- Michels Family Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $3,198,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Michels Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (60%), Health (20%), Religion (11%).
- Who are Michels Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Marquette University ($5.0M), Marian University Inc ($2.8M), Agnesian Healthcare Foundation Inc ($2.6M).
- Does Michels Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Michels Family 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 Michels Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fond Du Lac Area Foundation, Grande Foundation, Kevin and Connie Michels Family Foundation.
- Where is Michels Family Foundation based?
- Michels Family Foundation is based in WI.
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