Does Southeastern Michigan Chapter NECA Education and Research 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 Southeastern Michigan Chapter NECA Education and Research Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Consumers Energy Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.

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Southeastern Michigan Chapter NECA Education and Research 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.

$176k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 18
Grants FY2025: 12
Organizations funded FY2024: 33%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $9,890
Largest grant, FY2025: $19,953
Organizations funded a year: 9 to 12; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $623k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Southeastern Michigan Chapter NECA Education and Research Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationOther

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	18	$176k	22%
FY2024	12	$82k	33%
FY2023	12	$62k	33%
FY2022	10	$41k	20%
FY2021	10	$55k	60%
FY2020	9	$31k	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.

Education$442kHealth$5k

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
Lawrence Technological University	$41,500	4	0%
Kettering University	$39,000	4	0%
Central Michigan University	$34,500	4	n/a
Ferris State University	$34,000	6	n/a
Michigan State University	$32,300	6	n/a
University of Detroit Mercy	$22,500	3	0%
Oakland University	$21,453	2	n/a
Grand Valley State University	$18,500	4	n/a
Walsh College of Accountancy & Business Administration	$14,718	2	0%
Northern Michigan University	$11,000	3	n/a

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All grantees of Southeastern Michigan Chapter NECA Education and Research Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Lawrence Technological University	$41,500	4	0%
Kettering University	$39,000	4	0%
Central Michigan University	$34,500	4	n/a
Ferris State University	$34,000	6	n/a
Michigan State University	$32,300	6	n/a
University of Detroit Mercy	$22,500	3	0%
Oakland University	$21,453	2	n/a
Grand Valley State University	$18,500	4	n/a
Walsh College of Accountancy & Business Administration	$14,718	2	0%
Northern Michigan University	$11,000	3	n/a
Saginaw Valley State University	$10,000	1	n/a
The University of Tampa Incorporated	$7,000	1	0%
Hope College	$7,000	1	0%
University of Michigan	$4,500	2	1%
Rochester Christian University	$2,000	1	0%
University of Pittsburgh	$1,500	1	0%

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($145k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Southeastern Michigan Chapter NECA Education and Research Foundation 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 9.

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.

Consumers Energy FoundationMI14× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Consumers Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Southeastern Michigan Chapter NECA Education and Research Foundation

How much does Southeastern Michigan Chapter NECA Education and Research Foundation give?: Southeastern Michigan Chapter NECA Education and Research Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $176,217 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Southeastern Michigan Chapter NECA Education and Research Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Health (1%).
Who are Southeastern Michigan Chapter NECA Education and Research Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Lawrence Technological University ($42k), Kettering University ($39k), Central Michigan University ($35k).
Does Southeastern Michigan Chapter NECA Education and Research Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Southeastern Michigan Chapter NECA Education and Research 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 Southeastern Michigan Chapter NECA Education and Research Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Consumers Energy Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Southeastern Michigan Chapter NECA Education and Research Foundation based?: Southeastern Michigan Chapter NECA Education and Research Foundation is based in MI.