Michigan · Private foundation
The Marzke Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $73k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 44
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations The Marzke Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 35 | $70k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $63k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $52k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $54k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $55k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $40k | 3% |
| FY2019 | 44 | $53k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Schoo | $24,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Twin-City Area Catholic School Fund | $20,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Readiness Center Inc | $20,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Therapeutic Equestrian Center | $15,000 | 7 | 3% |
| The Soup Kitchen Inc | $14,200 | 7 | 1% |
| Friends of Berrien County Trails | $13,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Birthright of St Joseph Inc | $13,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Lake Michigan College Foundation | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Curious Kids Museum | $12,100 | 7 | 0% |
| St Joseph Junior Foundation Inc | $12,000 | 7 | 3% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($158k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Marzke Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Berrien Community Foundation Inc · Fettig Family Foundation · Whirlpool Foundation · Hanson Family Foundation · Degroot Family Foundation · The Covia Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · The Thomas and Maria Yeager Family Foundation · Ronald and Eva Kinney Family Foundation · The Schalon Foundation · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · David and Barbara Whitwam Foundation
How this is measured
About The Marzke Family Foundation
- How much does The Marzke Family Foundation give?
- The Marzke Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $72,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 44 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Marzke Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Human Services (19%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are The Marzke Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Schoo ($24k), Twin-City Area Catholic School Fund ($20k), Readiness Center Inc ($20k).
- Does The Marzke Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Marzke Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Marzke Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berrien Community Foundation Inc, Fettig Family Foundation, Whirlpool Foundation.
- Where is The Marzke Family Foundation based?
- The Marzke Family Foundation is based in MI.
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