How much does Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial give?

Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial reported 35 grants totaling $325,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 43 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Health (23%), Education (10%).

Who are Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Als of Michigan Inc ($68k), Forgotten Harvest Inc ($60k), Oakland Community College Foundation ($51k).

Does Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, United Way for Southeastern Michigan, DTE Energy Foundation.

Where is Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial based?

Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial is based in MI.

Foundation Dossiers

Michigan · Private foundation

Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$325k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 35
Grants FY2025: 41
Organizations funded FY2024: 27%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $15,000
Organizations funded a year: 27 to 43; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $4.7M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	35	$325k	26%
FY2024	41	$417k	27%
FY2023	37	$426k	43%
FY2022	37	$391k	38%
FY2021	27	$326k	81%
FY2020	43	$433k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$594kHealth$546kEducation$228kFood & Nutrition$200kArts & Culture$186kHousing & Shelter$143kRecreation & Sports$70kYouth Development$60kOther$0

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
Als of Michigan Inc	$67,500	4	3%
Forgotten Harvest Inc	$60,000	5	0%
Oakland Community College Foundation	$51,000	4	2%
Ladies of Charity of St Vincent Depaul Oakland County Association	$50,000	4	9%
St Annes Mead	$50,000	4	0%
National Council of Jewish Women Michig	$50,000	4	2%
Neighbor for Neighbor Inc	$50,000	4	n/a
Judson Center Inc	$45,000	3	0%
Kids Kicking Cancer Inc	$43,000	2	1%
Camp Casey Corporation	$40,000	3	4%

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All grantees of Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Als of Michigan Inc	$67,500	4	3%
Forgotten Harvest Inc	$60,000	5	0%
Oakland Community College Foundation	$51,000	4	2%
Ladies of Charity of St Vincent Depaul Oakland County Association	$50,000	4	9%
St Annes Mead	$50,000	4	0%
National Council of Jewish Women Michig	$50,000	4	2%
Neighbor for Neighbor Inc	$50,000	4	n/a
Judson Center Inc	$45,000	3	0%
Kids Kicking Cancer Inc	$43,000	2	1%
Camp Casey Corporation	$40,000	3	4%
On My Own of Michigan	$40,000	3	3%
Chaldean American Ladies of Charity	$39,000	4	1%
The Arc of Oakland County	$37,500	4	1%
Carehouse of Oakland County Inc	$37,500	3	1%
Oakland Literacy Council	$35,000	3	3%
Oakland Family Services	$35,000	3	0%
Eversight	$34,000	3	0%
Detroit Baby Drive	$34,000	3	n/a
Henry Ford Health Providence Foundation	$32,500	3	0%
The Bottomless Toy Chest Inc	$32,500	3	3%
The Rainbow Connection	$30,000	3	0%
Holocaust Memorial Center Inc	$30,000	3	0%
The New Day Foundation for Families	$30,000	3	1%
Playworks Education Energized	$30,000	3	0%
Open Hands Food Pantry	$30,000	3	7%
Community Housing Network Inc	$29,000	3	0%
Lions Visually Impaired Youth Camp	$25,000	2	2%
Jarc	$25,000	2	0%
Gesher Human Services	$25,000	2	0%
Oakland Hope	$25,000	2	1%
Gilda's Club Metro Detroit	$25,000	2	1%
South Oakland Shelter	$25,000	2	0%
Michigan Humane Society	$25,000	3	0%
Habitat for Humanity of Oakland County Inc	$25,000	2	0%
First Presbyterian Church	$24,340	2	n/a
Common Ground	$20,000	2	0%
Team Guts Inc	$20,000	2	13%
The Links Foundation Incorporated	$20,000	2	0%
Next Steps 4 Seniors Foundation	$20,000	2	3%
The Pewabic Society Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Career Dress	$20,000	2	n/a
Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit	$20,000	1	0%
Meadowbrook Center for Learning Differences	$19,000	2	7%
United Way for Southeastern Michigan	$17,500	2	0%
Leader Dogs for the Blind	$17,000	3	0%
Reaching Higher Inc	$15,000	2	7%
Micah 6 Community	$15,000	1	1%
Dr Gary Burnstein Community Health Clinic	$15,000	1	1%
Michigan Animal Rescue League	$15,000	1	1%
AgeWays Nonprofit Senior Services	$15,000	2	0%
Troy Historical Society	$13,000	2	2%
Kettering University	$11,174	1	0%
Far Conservatory of Therapeutic and Performing Arts	$10,150	1	1%
Oakland University	$10,000	1	n/a
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan	$10,000	1	0%
Vista Maria	$10,000	1	0%
Waterford School District	$10,000	1	n/a
Troy Nature Society	$10,000	1	3%
Children's Leukemia Foundation of Michigan	$10,000	1	1%
Accent Pontiac Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Lighthouse of Oakland County	$10,000	1	1%
Rose Hill Center Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Presbyterian Villages of Michigan Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Birmingham Education Foundation	$10,000	1	4%
Metro Food Rescue	$10,000	1	2%
Chamber Music Detroit	$10,000	1	2%
Troy Cooperative Preschool	$10,000	2	n/a
Our Neighborhood Academy	$10,000	1	9%
Trinity Health - Michigan	$10,000	1	0%
AnchoRRa	$10,000	1	3%
The Baldwin Center Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Grace Centers of Hope	$10,000	1	0%
Autism Alliance of Michigan	$10,000	1	0%
The Jewish Ensemble Theatre	$10,000	1	2%
Abide Ministries Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Fresh Air Society	$10,000	1	0%
Beds 4 Kids	$10,000	2	1%
Hospice of Michigan Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Cares of Farmington Hills Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
The Detroit Institute of Arts	$10,000	1	0%
New Hope Center for Grief Support Inc	$9,000	1	2%
Wellspring	$8,000	2	1%
Stand With Trans	$5,000	1	1%
National Federation of Music Clubs	$5,000	1	n/a
Literature Circle Society	$5,000	1	5%
House of Hope Ministry Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Special Olympics Michigan Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Wave Project	$5,000	1	3%
Protecting Paws	$2,880	1	n/a
Lutheran Special Education Ministries	$2,000	1	n/a
Society of Active Retirees	$1,000	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($426k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 77.

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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.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI77.4× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · Helen L Kay Charitable Trust · The Carls Foundation · The Village Club Foundation · Deroy Testamentary Foundation · Canton Community Foundation Inc · The Kresge Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Eagles for Children · Consumers Energy Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial

How much does Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial give?: Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial reported 35 grants totaling $325,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 43 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Health (23%), Education (10%).
Who are Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Als of Michigan Inc ($68k), Forgotten Harvest Inc ($60k), Oakland Community College Foundation ($51k).
Does Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, United Way for Southeastern Michigan, DTE Energy Foundation.
Where is Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial based?: Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial is based in MI.