Michigan · Private foundation
Savage 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.
- $15k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $54k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Savage Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $15k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $16k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $17k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $24k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $24k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $24k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $24k | 7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Lansing Food Bank | $29,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Southside Community Kitchen | $22,500 | 9 | 4% |
| Advent House Ministries Inc | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Haven House | $17,000 | 9 | 0% |
| City Rescue Mission of Lansing Mich | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Rose Hill Center Inc | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Ele's Place Inc | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Burcham Hills Foundation | $8,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Lansing Symphony Association | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($56k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Savage 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: Capital Region Community Foundation · Ingham County Home Association · Lansing Rotary Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Savage Foundation
- How much does Savage Foundation give?
- Savage Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $15,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Savage Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (30%), Food & Nutrition (28%), Housing & Shelter (14%).
- Who are Savage Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greater Lansing Food Bank ($29k), Southside Community Kitchen ($23k), Advent House Ministries Inc ($18k).
- Does Savage Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Savage 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 Savage Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Capital Region Community Foundation, Ingham County Home Association, Lansing Rotary Foundation.
- Where is Savage Foundation based?
- Savage Foundation is based in MI.
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