Michigan · Private foundation
Michigan First 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.
- $174k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 83
- Grants FY2025
- 86
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 76 to 86
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $40k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Michigan First Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k 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 | 83 | $174k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 86 | $171k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 82 | $171k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 76 | $141k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 80 | $146k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 85 | $137k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forgotten Harvest Inc | $26,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan | $21,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Focushope | $21,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Lawrence Technological University | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Grand Valley State University | $15,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Salvation Army | $12,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Detroit Area Agency on Aging | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Detroit Mercy | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Downtown Boxing Gym Youth Program | $9,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Alternatives for Girls | $9,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 172 recipients with no EIN on record ($630k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Michigan First 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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Ford Philanthropy · DTE Energy Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Marshall Mathers Foundation · Henry Ford Southeast Michigan Community Health · Henry Ford Health System · Fca Foundation
How this is measured
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About Michigan First Foundation Inc
- How much does Michigan First Foundation Inc give?
- Michigan First Foundation Inc reported 83 grants totaling $173,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 76 and 86 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Michigan First Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (55%), Human Services (9%), Food & Nutrition (7%).
- Who are Michigan First Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Forgotten Harvest Inc ($26k), Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan ($22k), Focushope ($21k).
- Does Michigan First Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Michigan First 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 Michigan First Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Ford Philanthropy, DTE Energy Foundation.
- Where is Michigan First Foundation Inc based?
- Michigan First Foundation Inc is based in MI.
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