Michigan · Private foundation
WB & Candace Thoman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $141k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 11
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations WB & Candace Thoman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 | $141k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $227k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $35k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $132k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $106k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $60k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Happendance Inc | $83,500 | 5 | 11% |
| Mikey 23 Foundation | $81,040 | 5 | n/a |
| Capital Area Literacy Coalition | $74,373 | 4 | 14% |
| Lansing Public Schools | $62,495 | 4 | n/a |
| Highfields Inc | $43,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Women's Center of Greater Lansing | $10,001 | 2 | 1% |
| Ingham Intermediate School District | $3,020 | 1 | n/a |
| Wai-Iam Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($342k), not named here.
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: Capital Region Community Foundation · Lansing Rotary Foundation · Re Olds Foundation · Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation · Lansing Economic Area Partnership · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About WB & Candace Thoman Foundation
- How much does WB & Candace Thoman Foundation give?
- WB & Candace Thoman Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $141,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does WB & Candace Thoman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (43%), Arts & Culture (25%), Education (24%).
- Who are WB & Candace Thoman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Happendance Inc ($84k), Mikey 23 Foundation ($81k), Capital Area Literacy Coalition ($74k).
- Does WB & Candace Thoman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does WB & Candace Thoman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as WB & Candace Thoman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Capital Region Community Foundation, Lansing Rotary Foundation, Re Olds Foundation.
- Where is WB & Candace Thoman Foundation based?
- WB & Candace Thoman Foundation is based in MI.
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