Michigan · Private foundation
The Trillium 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.
- $27k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $213k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations The Trillium Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 17 | $27k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $33k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $25k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $34k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $29k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $30k | 72% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $50k | 64% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $11k | 80% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridges to Malawi | $33,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Corewell Health Foundation West Michigan | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Aquinas College | $16,270 | 8 | 0% |
| St Cecilia Music Center | $16,000 | 6 | 0% |
| John Ball Zoo | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Williams College | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Baxter Community Center | $9,250 | 7 | 0% |
| The Barn for Equine Learning | $8,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Wills Eye Foundation Inc | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $6,250 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($49k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Trillium 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 Korff Foundation · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · The Wege Foundation · THE PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC · Daniel & Pamella Devos Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Frey Foundation
How this is measured
About The Trillium Foundation
- How much does The Trillium Foundation give?
- The Trillium Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $27,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Trillium Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (21%), International (16%), Education (13%).
- Who are The Trillium Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bridges to Malawi ($33k), Corewell Health Foundation West Michigan ($25k), Aquinas College ($16k).
- Does The Trillium Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Trillium 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 Trillium Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Rapids Community Foundation, The Korff Foundation, Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation.
- Where is The Trillium Foundation based?
- The Trillium Foundation is based in MI.
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