Michigan · Private foundation
The Isabel Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 82
- Grants FY2025
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 59 to 66
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 20
- Total assets, FY2025
- $88M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations The Isabel 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; $35k 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 | 60 | $3.3M | 7% |
| FY2024 | 59 | $2.9M | 5% |
| FY2023 | 66 | $2.6M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 64 | $2.5M | 6% |
| FY2021 | 62 | $2.5M | 8% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $2.4M | 10% |
| FY2019 | 60 | $2.6M | 8% |
| FY2018 | 61 | $2.7M | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adventure Unlimited | $2,490,390 | 9 | 7% |
| The Principia Corporation | $1,610,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Flint Institute of Arts | $946,000 | 8 | 3% |
| The Cedars Camps Inc | $677,801 | 9 | 2% |
| Crystal Lake Camps Inc | $676,757 | 9 | 16% |
| Arden Wood Inc | $670,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Flint Cultural Center Corporation | $650,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Camp Newfound Owatonna Corporation | $625,606 | 9 | 5% |
| Camp Leelanau and Kohahna Foundation Inc | $620,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Chestnut Hill Benevolent Association | $620,000 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Isabel Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 68 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: Tenacre Foundation · Mueller Hoisel Wanger Charitable Foundation Inc · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Powell Crown Foundation · Towle Family Foundation · Asher Student Foundation · The Daycroft School Foundation Inc · The Membery Foundation · The Borch Foundation · The Tiny Tiger Foundation · The Harding Foundation 2108-01-44 · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Isabel Foundation
- How much does The Isabel Foundation give?
- The Isabel Foundation reported 82 grants totaling $3,292,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 59 and 66 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Isabel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (26%), Religion (24%), Education (16%).
- Who are The Isabel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Adventure Unlimited ($2.5M), The Principia Corporation ($1.6M), Flint Institute of Arts ($946k).
- Does The Isabel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Isabel Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Isabel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tenacre Foundation, Mueller Hoisel Wanger Charitable Foundation Inc, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
- Where is The Isabel Foundation based?
- The Isabel Foundation is based in MI.
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