Michigan · Private foundation
Narens 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.
- $71k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $898k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Narens 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; $7k 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 | 12 | $71k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $182k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $180k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $77k | 54% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $63k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $80k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temple Shir Shalom | $296,297 | 6 | n/a |
| The Tom Kowalski Foundation Inc | $32,500 | 5 | 6% |
| Orchards Children's Services Inc | $30,804 | 6 | 0% |
| Hebrew Free Loan Association | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Yoga Moves Ms | $12,700 | 5 | 8% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan | $9,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Henry Ford Health System | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temple Shir Shalom | $296,297 | 6 | n/a |
| The Tom Kowalski Foundation Inc | $32,500 | 5 | 6% |
| Orchards Children's Services Inc | $30,804 | 6 | 0% |
| Hebrew Free Loan Association | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Yoga Moves Ms | $12,700 | 5 | 8% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan | $9,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Henry Ford Health System | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Dr Gary Burnstein Community Health Clinic | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Friendship Circle | $2,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Team Gamez Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Holocaust Memorial Center Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati Inc | $594 | 2 | 0% |
| Place of Hope Inc | $521 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Tumor Foundation | $518 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Service | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($222k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Narens Family Foundation 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: Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Narens Family Foundation
- How much does Narens Family Foundation give?
- Narens Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $70,984 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Narens Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (41%), Health (19%), Philanthropy (16%).
- Who are Narens Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Temple Shir Shalom ($296k), The Tom Kowalski Foundation Inc ($33k), Orchards Children's Services Inc ($31k).
- Does Narens Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Narens 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 Narens Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Narens Family Foundation based?
- Narens Family Foundation is based in MI.
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