Michigan · Private foundation
The Cipa Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $11k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 6
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $252k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Cipa Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 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 | 6 | $11k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $9k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $9k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $9k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $15k | 83% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $6k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $19k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $18k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 Network | $3,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Impact100 Macomb County | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Christ Child Society of Detroit | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Gcu Foundation | $725 | 1 | n/a |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Carnegie Library of Homestead | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| The New Day Foundation for Families | $450 | 3 | 0% |
| Sky Foundation Inc | $450 | 2 | 0% |
| Children's Heart Foundation | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($107k), not named here.
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 · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Cipa Foundation
- How much does The Cipa Foundation give?
- The Cipa Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $10,891 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Cipa Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (52%), Education (20%), Religion (9%).
- Who are The Cipa Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hope Network ($3k), Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc ($3k), Impact100 Macomb County ($1k).
- Does The Cipa Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Cipa Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Cipa Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Cipa Foundation based?
- The Cipa Foundation is based in MI.
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