Michigan · Private foundation
Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $119k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 47
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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 | 29 | $119k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $122k | 48% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $104k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $98k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $108k | 49% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $114k | 63% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $103k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $84k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Michigan University | $91,946 | 9 | n/a |
| Trillium House Inc | $50,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Bay College | $45,050 | 7 | n/a |
| Bethany Lutheran Church | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Northern Lights YMCA Inc | $29,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Superior Health Foundation | $21,750 | 9 | 0% |
| William Bonifas Fine Arts Center | $16,000 | 7 | 1% |
| University of Michigan | $15,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Saginaw Valley State University | $12,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 118 recipients with no EIN on record ($474k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert & Jeanine Dagenais 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: Superior Health Foundation · Edward J Sackerson Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula · The Donald and Audrey Anderson Foundation · John and Melissa Besse Foundation · Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Marquette County · West End Health Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · DTE Energy Foundation · Daniel J Kobasic Foundation · M & M Area Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation
- How much does Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation give?
- Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $119,225 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Human Services (18%), Health (18%).
- Who are Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Northern Michigan University ($92k), Trillium House Inc ($50k), Bay College ($45k).
- Does Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Superior Health Foundation, Edward J Sackerson Charitable Foundation, Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula.
- Where is Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation based?
- Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation is based in MI.
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