Michigan · Private foundation
The Pyle Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $16k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 30
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Pyle Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800 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 | 12 | $15k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $5k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $14k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $12k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $13k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $15k | 39% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $11k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mackinac Center | $19,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Mayflower Congregational Church | $13,600 | 5 | n/a |
| Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association | $5,260 | 6 | 1% |
| Salvation Army | $5,038 | 6 | n/a |
| Blandford Nature Center | $2,700 | 4 | 0% |
| Menominee Range Historical Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Land Conservancy of West Michigan | $1,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Grand Valley State University | $1,200 | 7 | n/a |
| Gerald R Ford Presidential Foundation | $1,050 | 5 | 0% |
| The Sweet House Foundation | $1,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($21k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Pyle 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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Frey Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Korff Foundation · Perrigo Company Charitable Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · The Sebastian Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Community Foundation for Muskegon County
How this is measured
About The Pyle Foundation
- How much does The Pyle Foundation give?
- The Pyle Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $15,788 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 30 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Pyle Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (24%), Arts & Culture (23%), Religion (16%).
- Who are The Pyle Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Mackinac Center ($19k), Mayflower Congregational Church ($14k), Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association ($5k).
- Does The Pyle Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Pyle Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Pyle Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Rapids Community Foundation, The Meijer Foundation, Frey Foundation.
- Where is The Pyle Foundation based?
- The Pyle Foundation is based in MI.
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