Michigan · Private foundation
The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $17M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 122
- Grants FY2025
- 124
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 112 to 128
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $377M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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 | 114 | $17M | 18% |
| FY2024 | 124 | $14M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 128 | $15M | 34% |
| FY2022 | 114 | $13M | 24% |
| FY2021 | 125 | $12M | 43% |
| FY2020 | 112 | $12M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $3,915,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Foundation for Detroit's Future | $3,000,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Detroit Public Media | $2,955,340 | 6 | 4% |
| Detroit Riverfront Conservancy Inc | $2,750,000 | 4 | 8% |
| University of Michigan | $2,684,460 | 5 | 89% |
| Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc | $2,645,050 | 6 | 3% |
| Cranbrook Educational Community | $2,487,130 | 6 | 2% |
| Huron River Watershed Council | $2,431,202 | 6 | 24% |
| National Wildlife Federation | $2,100,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ecology Center | $1,872,500 | 6 | 16% |
Show all 187 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 85 recipients with no EIN on record ($16M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 14 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 163 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Kresge Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Hudson-Webber Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Culturesource · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation Inc · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Gilbert Family Foundation · Ford Philanthropy
How this is measured
Compare The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation with peer funders
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About The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation
- How much does The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation give?
- The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation reported 122 grants totaling $17,307,015 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 112 and 128 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), Environment (25%), Community Improvement (11%).
- Who are The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc ($3.9M), Foundation for Detroit's Future ($3.0M), Detroit Public Media ($3.0M).
- Does The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Kresge Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Hudson-Webber Foundation.
- Where is The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation based?
- The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation is based in MI.
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