Michigan · Private foundation
Mps 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.
- $200k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Mps Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 24 | $200k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $180k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $200k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $200k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $182k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $170k | 5% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $170k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $170k | 11% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Traverse Conservancy Inc | $162,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Little Traverse Bay Humane Society | $146,500 | 9 | 1% |
| National Wildlife Federation | $68,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Allen-Bass Fund Inc | $59,000 | 9 | 35% |
| Harbor Springs Area Historical Society | $57,700 | 9 | 2% |
| Anns Nest | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council | $22,000 | 9 | 0% |
| North Central Michigan College Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Rising Hope Equestrian Center | $15,000 | 3 | 2% |
| University of Michigan | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Traverse Conservancy Inc | $162,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Little Traverse Bay Humane Society | $146,500 | 9 | 1% |
| National Wildlife Federation | $68,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Allen-Bass Fund Inc | $59,000 | 9 | 35% |
| Harbor Springs Area Historical Society | $57,700 | 9 | 2% |
| Anns Nest | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council | $22,000 | 9 | 0% |
| North Central Michigan College Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Rising Hope Equestrian Center | $15,000 | 3 | 2% |
| University of Michigan | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Adopt a Golden Birmingham Inc | $8,200 | 8 | 1% |
| Harbor Hall Foundation | $7,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc | $4,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Michigan Enviromental Council | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Great Lakes Center for the Arts | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mps Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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: Triford Foundation · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Tom and Ellen Noneman Foundation Co Plante Moran Trust · The Offield Family Foundation · Affordable Housing Management Foundation · Fabiano Foundation · Oleson Foundation · Collier Community Foundation Inc · The Summers Foundation Inc · The Kent Foundation
How this is measured
About Mps Foundation
- How much does Mps Foundation give?
- Mps Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $200,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mps Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (36%), Animals (23%), Health (15%).
- Who are Mps Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ($162k), Little Traverse Bay Humane Society ($147k), National Wildlife Federation ($68k).
- Does Mps Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mps 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 Mps Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triford Foundation, Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation, Frey Foundation.
- Where is Mps Foundation based?
- Mps Foundation is based in MI.
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