Illinois · Private foundation
The Michel Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $96k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Michel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $685 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 | 22 | $5k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $3k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $5k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $3k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $3k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $4k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $2k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $2k | 23% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $2,375 | 7 | 0% |
| American Liver Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $1,390 | 9 | 0% |
| Francis W Parker School | $1,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $1,041 | 7 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $902 | 5 | 0% |
| Loyola University of Chicago | $900 | 7 | 0% |
| Chicago Youth Shakespeare Inc | $825 | 4 | 1% |
| Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc | $800 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($8k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Michel 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: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Michel Foundation
- How much does The Michel Foundation give?
- The Michel Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $5,227 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Michel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (18%), Civil Rights (15%), Animals (15%).
- Who are The Michel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation ($3k), The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($2k), American Liver Foundation ($2k).
- Does The Michel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Michel Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Michel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Michel Foundation based?
- The Michel Foundation is based in IL.
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