· Private foundation
Strunk 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WARREN SYMPHONY SOCIETY | $8,000 |
| MAGGIE'S WIGS 4 KIDS OF MICHIGAN | $5,500 |
| LYDIA'S GATE | $5,250 |
| FOLLOW THE TRAIN - MIO214 | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS | $5,000 |
| MACOMB FOSTER CLOSET | $4,000 |
| CAVOD | $3,000 |
| ROCHESTER CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| FOP 124 BENEVOLENT FUND | $2,500 |
| TURNING POINT INC | $2,500 |
| BIG OAK WOLF SANCTUARY INC | $2,500 |
| BIG FAMILY OF MICHIGAN | $2,000 |
| THE FRIENDS OF MR D | $2,000 |
| IACS (ITALIAN AMERICAN CULTURAL SOCIETY) | $2,000 |
| PIME MISSIONARIES | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MFMACOMB FOSTER CLOSET3× · 2022–2025 · $22k · revenue +923%
- FOFRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS6× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +123%
- WSWARREN SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC2× · 2024–2025 · $13k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- HHHOCKEY HAS HEARTone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -56%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE WARREN PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $5k
- AOASSEMBLIES OF GOD US MISSIONSone grant, 2019 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Transplant House of West Michigan is organized to provide individuals and their families that are going through the organ transplant process an affordable temporary home away from home in West Michigan to ease the transitions of their…
Wipe out kids cancer offers comfort and hope to kids with cancer through support programs serving the entire family and funds innovative research leading to new discoveries and treatments in the fight against pediatric cancer. "support and…
Creating healthy communities - together
Provide support, services and aid to current, future and past foster, adoptive and relative parents who are or were in the foster care system.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
To continuously improve the health of the communities we serve in the spirit of hope, compassion, respect and dignity.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Michigan coalition on donation (mcod) is dedicated to promoting organ, tissue, eye, blood, and bone marrow donation with community leaders via public education in all areas of society. our mission is to encourage michigan residents to…
The fore hadley foundation was created to drive awareness and generate funding for families and children affected by congenital diaphragmatic hernia (cdh). cdh is a rare birth defect that effects roughly 1 in every 2,500 live births per…
The dave thomas foundation for adoption is a national nonprofit public charity dedicated exclusively to finding permanent homes for more than 150,000 children waiting in north america's foster care systems. see schedule o for additional…
How this is measured
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MACOMB FOSTER CLOSET ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS ↗
- Who funds LYDIAS GATE ↗
- Who funds WARREN SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS CLUB OF WARREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds MAGGIE'S WIGS4KIDS OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds HOCKEY HAS HEART ↗
- Who funds FOLLOW THE TRAIL MI0214 ↗
- Who funds THE WALSH COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
- Who funds Rochester Christian University ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC OF OSCODA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND YOUTH TRAP BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds BIG OAK WOLF SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds VETS RETURNING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ITALIAN AMERICAN CULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BIG FAMILY OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
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 · Chris and Michelle Peyerk Foundation · Appletree Hill Foundation · Dryden Family Foundation · Four County Community Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Strunk Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Strunk Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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