Michigan · Private foundation
Searles Family 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.
- $117k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $986k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Searles Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 14 | $117k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $55k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $55k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $65k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $44k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $40k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $47k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $52k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire Boat Museum | $118,600 | 9 | 4% |
| Clark Lake Spirit Foundation Inc | $91,000 | 5 | 31% |
| Loon Preservation Committee | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Lake Winnipesaukee Association | $25,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Foundation | $24,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Nassau County Foundation | $23,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Abaco Strong Inc | $19,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Barn Sanctuary | $14,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc | $14,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Toledo Zoological Society | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 22 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($86k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Searles Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: George Isaac Foundation · The O-I Charities Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
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About Searles Family Foundation
- How much does Searles Family Foundation give?
- Searles Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $117,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Searles Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (48%), Animals (16%), Education (9%).
- Who are Searles Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New Hampshire Boat Museum ($119k), Clark Lake Spirit Foundation Inc ($91k), Loon Preservation Committee ($45k).
- Does Searles Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Searles Family 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 Searles Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include George Isaac Foundation, The O-I Charities Foundation, Toledo Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Searles Family Foundation based?
- Searles Family Foundation is based in MI.
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