Michigan · Private foundation
The Kantzler Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $364k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $26,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations The Kantzler Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $280k 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 | 11 | $364k | 55% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $337k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $340k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $310k | 63% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $392k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $266k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $285k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $265k | 42% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Area Soccer Association | $200,000 | 2 | 28% |
| Bay City Players Inc | $190,000 | 4 | 24% |
| Hidden Harvest | $185,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan | $120,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Bay Veterans Foundation | $115,000 | 3 | 18% |
| Bay Sail Inc | $112,500 | 3 | 16% |
| Antique Toy and Firehouse Museum | $100,000 | 2 | 28% |
| The Jefferson Project | $100,000 | 1 | 40% |
| Studio 23 | $100,000 | 2 | 22% |
| Lifeclinic Community Resources | $100,000 | 1 | 5% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($945k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Kantzler Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 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: Bay Area Community Foundation · Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Gougeon Employees Foundation · Nickless Family Charitable Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Midland Area Community Foundation · Allison K Short Foundation · United Way of Bay County · Weinlander Fitzhugh Foundation Inc · Tri-Star Charitable Foundation · Frankenmuth Insurance Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Kantzler Foundation
- How much does The Kantzler Foundation give?
- The Kantzler Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $363,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Kantzler Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), Human Services (14%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
- Who are The Kantzler Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bay Area Soccer Association ($200k), Bay City Players Inc ($190k), Hidden Harvest ($185k).
- Does The Kantzler Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kantzler Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kantzler Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bay Area Community Foundation, Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundation, Consumers Energy Foundation.
- Where is The Kantzler Foundation based?
- The Kantzler Foundation is based in MI.
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