How much does The Hougen Foundation give?

The Hougen Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $225,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Hougen Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (41%), Education (30%), Human Services (13%).

Who are The Hougen Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kettering University ($120k), Hurley Foundation ($101k), McLaren Flint Foundation ($90k).

Does The Hougen Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Hougen 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 The Hougen Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Flint, The Serra Foundation, Consumers Energy Foundation.

Where is The Hougen Foundation based?

The Hougen Foundation is based in MI.

Foundation Dossiers

Michigan · Private foundation

The Hougen Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$225k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 28
Grants FY2024: 24
Organizations funded FY2023: 4%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $5,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $30,000
Organizations funded a year: 14 to 25; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 8
Total assets, FY2024: $3.4M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 4% of the organizations The Hougen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureOther

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
FY2024still arriving	28	$225k	11%
FY2023	24	$215k	4%
FY2022	25	$219k	12%
FY2021	23	$232k	13%
FY2020	21	$180k	29%
FY2019	18	$160k	11%
FY2018	20	$230k	45%
FY2017	14	$120k	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, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$650kEducation$478kHuman Services$203kFood & Nutrition$83kPublic Safety & Disaster$45kHousing & Shelter$38kArts & Culture$25kReligion$14kOther$0

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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Kettering University	$120,000	8	0%
Hurley Foundation	$101,000	8	1%
McLaren Flint Foundation	$89,500	4	1%
Food Bank of Eastern Michigan	$83,000	8	0%
Henry Ford Health Genesys Foundation	$80,000	7	2%
Fenton Area Public Schools	$76,500	6	n/a
Salvation Army	$70,000	7	n/a
Whaley Children's Center Inc	$54,000	8	0%
Friends of the Prescott Public Library	$53,000	8	4%
Pediatric Heart Transplant Society Foundation	$44,000	8	2%

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All grantees of The Hougen Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Kettering University	$120,000	8	0%
Hurley Foundation	$101,000	8	1%
McLaren Flint Foundation	$89,500	4	1%
Food Bank of Eastern Michigan	$83,000	8	0%
Henry Ford Health Genesys Foundation	$80,000	7	2%
Fenton Area Public Schools	$76,500	6	n/a
Salvation Army	$70,000	7	n/a
Whaley Children's Center Inc	$54,000	8	0%
Friends of the Prescott Public Library	$53,000	8	4%
Pediatric Heart Transplant Society Foundation	$44,000	8	2%
Arthritis Foundation Inc	$43,000	7	0%
Carriage Town Ministries	$37,500	8	0%
Catholic Charities Community Services Inc	$35,000	7	0%
Autism Speaks Inc	$30,000	1	n/a
Operation Enduring Warrior	$27,500	5	3%
Sam Beauford Woodworking Inst	$25,000	5	2%
Good Samaritan Clinic	$20,000	4	0%
Organization for Autism Research	$18,500	3	0%
Csa Education Foundation	$15,500	3	n/a
University of Chicago	$15,000	1	0%
Swartz Creek Community Schools	$15,000	3	n/a
Community Church of God	$12,500	2	n/a
Tarpon Springs Band Boosters Inc	$12,000	2	1%
Copd Foundation Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Pasco Sheriff's Charities Inc	$10,000	2	6%
Offering Alternative Therapy With Smiles	$7,000	1	n/a
Michigan Robotics Foundation	$1,000	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($466k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hougen 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 21.

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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.

Community Foundation of Greater FlintMI17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Flint · The Serra Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 The Hougen Foundation

How much does The Hougen Foundation give?: The Hougen Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $225,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Hougen Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (41%), Education (30%), Human Services (13%).
Who are The Hougen Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kettering University ($120k), Hurley Foundation ($101k), McLaren Flint Foundation ($90k).
Does The Hougen Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Hougen 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 The Hougen Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Flint, The Serra Foundation, Consumers Energy Foundation.
Where is The Hougen Foundation based?: The Hougen Foundation is based in MI.