Michigan · Private foundation
Phil & Pat Willis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $157k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Phil & Pat Willis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 | 9 | $157k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $95k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $33k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $88k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $185k | 86% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $42k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $74k | 100% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Interfaith Shelter | $80,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Michigan Theatre of Jackson Inc | $55,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Lost Railway Museum | $38,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Junior Achievement of the Michigan Great Lakes Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ella Sharp Museum Association of Jackson | $35,000 | 4 | 1% |
| County of Jackson Michigan Dept on Aging | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Grass Lake Senior Center | $20,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Jackson Symphony Orchestra Association Inc | $16,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Rise Above | $15,000 | 2 | 3% |
| The Jackson Friendly Home | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($310k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Phil & Pat Willis 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: The Alvin L Glick Foundation · Lavery Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Jackson Community Foundation · The Hurst Foundation · John George Jr Paragraph X Trust · Addison P Cook III Foundation · The L H Field Family Foundation · Macchia Family Foundation · Speckhard-Knight Charitable Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · Samuel Higby Camp Foundation
How this is measured
About Phil & Pat Willis Foundation
- How much does Phil & Pat Willis Foundation give?
- Phil & Pat Willis Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $157,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Phil & Pat Willis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (41%), Housing & Shelter (13%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Phil & Pat Willis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jackson Interfaith Shelter ($80k), The Michigan Theatre of Jackson Inc ($55k), Lost Railway Museum ($38k).
- Does Phil & Pat Willis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Phil & Pat Willis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Phil & Pat Willis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Alvin L Glick Foundation, Lavery Foundation, Consumers Energy Foundation.
- Where is Phil & Pat Willis Foundation based?
- Phil & Pat Willis Foundation is based in MI.
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