Michigan · Private foundation
The Pokagon Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 101
- Grants FY2025
- 84
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 84
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations The Pokagon Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k 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 | 66 | $1.4M | 36% |
| FY2024 | 84 | $1.1M | 43% |
| FY2023 | 68 | $1.0M | 28% |
| FY2022 | 68 | $1.5M | 40% |
| FY2021 | 59 | $743k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $754k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $977k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 52 | $1.5M | 58% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neighbor by Neighbor | $750,818 | 4 | 47% |
| Harbert Community Church-Harbert Mi | $352,000 | 4 | n/a |
| New Buffalo Area Schools | $265,191 | 8 | n/a |
| Chikaming Township | $122,980 | 5 | n/a |
| River Valley Senior Center Inc | $114,127 | 7 | 18% |
| Western Michigan University | $102,105 | 7 | n/a |
| Feeding America West Michigan | $100,900 | 9 | 0% |
| Michigan State University | $90,983 | 9 | n/a |
| University of Michigan | $84,750 | 7 | 6% |
| New Buffalo Sports Incorporated | $78,740 | 9 | n/a |
Show all 137 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 134 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Pokagon Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 92 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: Berrien Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · United Way of St Joseph County Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Muessel Ellison Mem Irr Tua · Klockow Harvey R and Doris Fdn · Clark Sa & Fp Mem Fd Irr Tua · Asante Foundation Inc · Fields Foundation Irr Tua
How this is measured
About The Pokagon Fund Inc
- How much does The Pokagon Fund Inc give?
- The Pokagon Fund Inc reported 101 grants totaling $1,388,564 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 84 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Pokagon Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (26%), Education (15%), Environment (11%).
- Who are The Pokagon Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Neighbor by Neighbor ($751k), Harbert Community Church-Harbert Mi ($352k), New Buffalo Area Schools ($265k).
- Does The Pokagon Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Pokagon Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Pokagon Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berrien Community Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc, Carroll F V Char Tr-Main.
- Where is The Pokagon Fund Inc based?
- The Pokagon Fund Inc is based in MI.
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