Michigan · Public charity
W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation
To conduct research into the causes and effects of unemployment and to study and investigate the feasibility and methods of insuring against unemployment and to devise ways and means of preventing and alleviating the distress and hardship caused by unemployment, and to create, experiment with and put into effect any plan or device that…
- $3.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 78%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.7M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,123,165
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $301M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 78% of the organizations W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 80% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k 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 | 13 | $3.7M | 69% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $343k | 78% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $4.6M | 58% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $4.6M | 67% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $4.4M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $4.4M | 25% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $3.7M | 25% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $3.3M | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kalamazoo Regional Educational Service Agency Foundation | $20,302,274 | 8 | n/a |
| Michigan State Afl-Cio Workforce Development Institute | $9,980,402 | 8 | 55% |
| New Level Sports | $309,726 | 2 | 13% |
| Berrien-Cass-Vanburen Workforce Development Board Inc | $301,924 | 2 | 2% |
| Voces | $275,000 | 2 | 24% |
| University of Minnesota | $187,384 | 1 | n/a |
| Russell Sage Foundation | $180,000 | 3 | 1% |
| University of Washington | $139,770 | 1 | n/a |
| Southwestern Michigan Urban League | $125,000 | 1 | 19% |
| Greater Kingdom International | $123,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 33 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kalamazoo Regional Educational Service Agency Foundation | $20,302,274 | 8 | n/a |
| Michigan State Afl-Cio Workforce Development Institute | $9,980,402 | 8 | 55% |
| New Level Sports | $309,726 | 2 | 13% |
| Berrien-Cass-Vanburen Workforce Development Board Inc | $301,924 | 2 | 2% |
| Voces | $275,000 | 2 | 24% |
| University of Minnesota | $187,384 | 1 | n/a |
| Russell Sage Foundation | $180,000 | 3 | 1% |
| University of Washington | $139,770 | 1 | n/a |
| Southwestern Michigan Urban League | $125,000 | 1 | 19% |
| Greater Kingdom International | $123,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Womens Network Inc | $117,955 | 2 | 17% |
| Battle Creek Unlimited Inc | $100,300 | 2 | 1% |
| Child Care Resource and Referral of Kalamazoo | $97,319 | 2 | 10% |
| Burmese American Initiative Inc | $74,400 | 1 | 5% |
| Rise Corp | $50,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Develop Iosco Incorporated | $25,000 | 1 | 9% |
| The Urban Institute | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Catching the Dream Learning Center | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Western Michigan University | $18,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Board of Regents of the University of California (Merced) | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Child Care Back Office | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chapman University | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Universidad de Los Andres | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Vanderbilt University | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| University of North Texas | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Northwestern University | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Cornell University | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Rochester | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Taylor Trust FBO Asu Foundation | $7,500 | 1 | 10% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $6,502 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($8k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 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: United Way of South Central Michigan · WK Kellogg Foundation · Battle Creek Community Foundation · Battle Creek Unlimited Inc · Miller Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation with peer funders
About W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation
- How much does W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation give?
- W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation reported 14 itemized grants totaling $3,659,048, out of $3,773,632 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (63%), Employment (33%), Human Services (1%).
- Who are W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kalamazoo Regional Educational Service Agency Foundation ($20M), Michigan State Afl-Cio Workforce Development Institute ($10.0M), New Level Sports ($310k).
- Does W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 78% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of South Central Michigan, WK Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek Community Foundation.
- Where is W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation based?
- W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation is based in MI.
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