Ohio · Private foundation
Orville & Helaine Lutz Memorial Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $71k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $52,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $848k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Orville & Helaine Lutz Memorial Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | $71k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $30k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $45k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $34k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $50k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $39k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $47k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $52k | 40% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hidden Harvest | $27,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Underground Railroad Inc | $24,453 | 4 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Young Womens Christian Association of San Antonio | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Samaritas | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United Way of Bay County | $12,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Operation Warm Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Bay Future Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hidden Harvest | $27,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Underground Railroad Inc | $24,453 | 4 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Young Womens Christian Association of San Antonio | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Samaritas | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United Way of Bay County | $12,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Operation Warm Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Bay Future Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Saginaw Symphony Association | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Saginaw S T E M | $9,999 | 1 | 7% |
| Saginaw Valley State University | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pride in Saginaw Inc | $8,500 | 1 | 5% |
| Old Town Christian Outreach Center | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bay Sail Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Emmaus House of Saginaw Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Self Love Beauty | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fish Tales | $4,800 | 1 | 1% |
| Lions Visually Impaired Youth Camp | $4,800 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($152k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Orville & Helaine Lutz Memorial Tr 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.
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How this is measured
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About Orville & Helaine Lutz Memorial Tr
- How much does Orville & Helaine Lutz Memorial Tr give?
- Orville & Helaine Lutz Memorial Tr reported 3 grants totaling $70,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Orville & Helaine Lutz Memorial Tr fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Youth Development (17%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Orville & Helaine Lutz Memorial Tr's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan ($30k), Hidden Harvest ($27k), Underground Railroad Inc ($24k).
- Does Orville & Helaine Lutz Memorial Tr fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Orville & Helaine Lutz Memorial Tr accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Orville & Helaine Lutz Memorial Tr?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Consumers Energy Foundation, Bay Area Community Foundation, Saginaw Community Foundation.
- Where is Orville & Helaine Lutz Memorial Tr based?
- Orville & Helaine Lutz Memorial Tr is based in OH.
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