Michigan · Private foundation
Molinello 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.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $19M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Molinello Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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 | 36 | $1.4M | 8% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $1.2M | 3% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $1.2M | 6% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $1.3M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $1.1M | 6% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $1.1M | 23% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $960k | 12% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $815,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Leader Dogs for the Blind | $640,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $640,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Angels' Place | $630,000 | 9 | 1% |
| South Oakland Citizens for the Homeless | $415,000 | 9 | 31% |
| National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica Parish Royal Oak | $410,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Forgotten Harvest Inc | $410,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries | $385,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Penrickton Center for Blind Children | $370,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute | $350,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Molinello Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Carls Foundation · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · Wendell & Doris Rogers Charitable Foundation · Young Woman's Home Association of Detroit Michigan · Aa Van Elslander Foundation · The Jewish Fund · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · Pulte Family Charitable Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · United Jewish Foundation
How this is measured
About Molinello Family Foundation
- How much does Molinello Family Foundation give?
- Molinello Family Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $1,360,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Molinello Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Human Services (28%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
- Who are Molinello Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($815k), Leader Dogs for the Blind ($640k), Salvation Army ($640k).
- Does Molinello Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Molinello 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 Molinello Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, United Way for Southeastern Michigan, The Carls Foundation.
- Where is Molinello Family Foundation based?
- Molinello Family Foundation is based in MI.
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