Michigan · Private foundation
The Bixby Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $24k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $9,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations The Bixby Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 20 | $24k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $27k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $22k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $23k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $23k | 68% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $45k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $16k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $30k | 96% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hope College | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Focus on the Family | $6,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Aaa Crisis Pregnancy Center | $4,800 | 6 | 0% |
| Truth for Life | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Food Gatherers | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc | $1,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Compassion International Incorporated | $1,082 | 1 | n/a |
| Water Missions International | $1,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation | $1,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hope College | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Focus on the Family | $6,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Aaa Crisis Pregnancy Center | $4,800 | 6 | 0% |
| Truth for Life | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Food Gatherers | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc | $1,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Compassion International Incorporated | $1,082 | 1 | n/a |
| Water Missions International | $1,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation | $1,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $750 | 1 | 0% |
| Livonia Goodfellows Inc | $650 | 2 | 0% |
| Adventures in Missions Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Bible Study Fellowship | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Special Olympics Michigan Inc | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| Turning Pointe Autism Foundation | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Supply and Multiply Inc | $200 | 1 | n/a |
| Michigan Parkinson Foundation | $200 | 1 | n/a |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Humane Society of Huron Valley | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($196k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bixby 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.
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How this is measured
About The Bixby Foundation
- How much does The Bixby Foundation give?
- The Bixby Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $23,882 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bixby Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (43%), Education (36%), Health (6%).
- Who are The Bixby Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hope College ($7k), Focus on the Family ($6k), Aaa Crisis Pregnancy Center ($5k).
- Does The Bixby Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bixby Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bixby Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Bixby Foundation based?
- The Bixby Foundation is based in MI.
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