Michigan · Public charity
Michigan Baseball Foundation Inc
The michigan baseball foundation will create regional economic development and support youth organizations through creative partnerships and grants by operating the finest minor league baseball facility and events center in the nation.
- $95k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $36k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $30M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Michigan Baseball Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 3 | $36k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $104k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $38k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $687k | 75% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $36k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $86k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Midland | $667,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Midland Community Centers | $76,802 | 2 | n/a |
| County of Midland | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Midland Business Alliance | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chippewa Nature Center | $15,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Windover High School | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Hoyt Park | $11,700 | 2 | 1% |
| Bullock Creek Schools | $10,697 | 2 | n/a |
| Midland Public Schools | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Saginaw Township South Little League | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Midland | $667,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Midland Community Centers | $76,802 | 2 | n/a |
| County of Midland | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Midland Business Alliance | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chippewa Nature Center | $15,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Windover High School | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Hoyt Park | $11,700 | 2 | 1% |
| Bullock Creek Schools | $10,697 | 2 | n/a |
| Midland Public Schools | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Saginaw Township South Little League | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Linwood Youth Organization | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Freeland Robotics Boosters | $7,000 | 1 | 10% |
| City of Auburn | $6,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Reaching Our Community Kids | $6,577 | 1 | 1% |
| Great Lakes Bay Health Centers | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Saginaw Co Youth Protection Counci | $6,450 | 1 | n/a |
| The Arc of Midland | $6,400 | 1 | 1% |
| Midland Center for the Arts Inc | $6,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Bay City Public Schools | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mymichigan Health Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hemlock Public Schools | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bay Community Tennis Association | $6,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Merrill Community Schools | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Salvation Army | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sanford Youth League | $5,600 | 1 | 13% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Great Lakes Bay Region | $5,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Young Mens Christian Assoc-Saginaw | $5,100 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Michigan Baseball Foundation Inc 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: Midland Area Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Bay Area Community Foundation · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation · Dow Company Foundation · Saginaw Community Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Alden and Vada Dow Fund · The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation · The Charles J Strosacker Foundation · Michigan College Access Network
How this is measured
About Michigan Baseball Foundation Inc
- How much does Michigan Baseball Foundation Inc give?
- Michigan Baseball Foundation Inc reported 3 itemized grants totaling $36,100, out of $94,600 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Michigan Baseball Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (41%), Philanthropy (31%), Recreation & Sports (19%).
- Who are Michigan Baseball Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Midland ($668k), Greater Midland Community Centers ($77k), County of Midland ($50k).
- Does Michigan Baseball Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Michigan Baseball Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Midland Area Community Foundation, Consumers Energy Foundation, Bay Area Community Foundation.
- Where is Michigan Baseball Foundation Inc based?
- Michigan Baseball Foundation Inc is based in MI.
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