Wisconsin · Private foundation
Timothy and Barbara Michels Family 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.
- $3.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,040,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 12
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $835k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Timothy and Barbara Michels Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $705k 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 | 11 | $3.1M | 27% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $5.7M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $2.5M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $50k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $850k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $1.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornell University | $1,500,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University Lake School Inc | $701,510 | 2 | 4% |
| Garfield Baptist Church | $575,000 | 5 | n/a |
| North Lake Management District | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Avail NYC | $250,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Brunswick School Inc | $233,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sisters of St Francis of Assisi | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| C2k Ministries Inc | $135,000 | 5 | 41% |
| Life Church | $125,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornell University | $1,500,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University Lake School Inc | $701,510 | 2 | 4% |
| Garfield Baptist Church | $575,000 | 5 | n/a |
| North Lake Management District | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Avail NYC | $250,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Brunswick School Inc | $233,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sisters of St Francis of Assisi | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| C2k Ministries Inc | $135,000 | 5 | 41% |
| Life Church | $125,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Fordham University | $120,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Babson College | $110,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wisconsin Right to Life Education Fund | $100,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Zachariah's Acres Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Care Net Pregnancy Center of Milwaukee Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Hillsong NYC LLC | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Milwaukee Education Partnership | $30,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Pro-Life Wisconsin Education Task Force Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Elmbrook Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Transformed People Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 5% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Timothy and Barbara Michels Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 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.
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How this is measured
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About Timothy and Barbara Michels Family Foundation
- How much does Timothy and Barbara Michels Family Foundation give?
- Timothy and Barbara Michels Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $3,146,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Timothy and Barbara Michels Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (73%), Health (14%), Religion (7%).
- Who are Timothy and Barbara Michels Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Cornell University ($1.5M), The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc ($1.0M), University Lake School Inc ($702k).
- Does Timothy and Barbara Michels Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Timothy and Barbara Michels Family 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 Timothy and Barbara Michels Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baird Foundation Inc, Vine and Branches Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc.
- Where is Timothy and Barbara Michels Family Foundation based?
- Timothy and Barbara Michels Family Foundation is based in WI.
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