Michigan · Private foundation
Sills Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $277k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2024
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 50
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Sills Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 45 | $237k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $197k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 50 | $160k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $148k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $145k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anti-Defamation League | $125,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Detroit Institute of Arts | $25,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Henry Ford Health System | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Birth Detroit Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Holocaust Memorial Center Inc | $17,400 | 5 | 0% |
| The Actors' Fund of America | $13,876 | 1 | 0% |
| Juilliard School | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Parkinson Disease Assoc | $12,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($270k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sills Foundation Inc 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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Jewish Federation of Detroit · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Bookstock · Chaim Fanny Louis Benjamin Anne and Florence · Donald R and Esther Simon Foundation · Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust
How this is measured
About Sills Foundation Inc
- How much does Sills Foundation Inc give?
- Sills Foundation Inc reported 46 grants totaling $277,161 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 50 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Sills Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (20%), Philanthropy (16%), Civil Rights (15%).
- Who are Sills Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Anti-Defamation League ($125k), American Friends of Magen David Adom ($100k), Friends of the Israel Defense Forces ($100k).
- Does Sills Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sills Foundation Inc 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 Sills Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, The Kresge Foundation, Ford Philanthropy.
- Where is Sills Foundation Inc based?
- Sills Foundation Inc is based in MI.
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