Michigan · Private foundation
Weigel Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $28k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $438k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Weigel Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 15 | $28k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $24k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $28k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $31k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $27k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $25k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $25k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $26k | 41% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Pelicans Inc | $26,500 | 8 | 29% |
| Michael's Place | $14,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Safe Harbor of Grand Traverse Inc | $12,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hospice of Michigan Inc | $11,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Single Momm | $10,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Boots for Kids | $9,000 | 9 | 5% |
| American Legion | $7,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Greenspire Charitable Foundation | $5,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Project Feed the Kids Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Eagle Village Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Pelicans Inc | $26,500 | 8 | 29% |
| Michael's Place | $14,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Safe Harbor of Grand Traverse Inc | $12,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hospice of Michigan Inc | $11,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Single Momm | $10,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Boots for Kids | $9,000 | 9 | 5% |
| American Legion | $7,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Greenspire Charitable Foundation | $5,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Project Feed the Kids Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Eagle Village Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Old Mission Womens Club | $4,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Carol's Ferals | $3,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Guardian Angels Medical Service Dogs Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Onekama Township | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Paraklesis Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Project Christmas | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Seaside Seabird Sanctuary | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Up North Arts Inc | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($116k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Weigel Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 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: Oleson Foundation · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Weigel Family Foundation
- How much does Weigel Family Foundation give?
- Weigel Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $28,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Weigel Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Animals (18%), Education (8%).
- Who are Weigel Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of the Pelicans Inc ($27k), Michael's Place ($14k), Safe Harbor of Grand Traverse Inc ($12k).
- Does Weigel Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Weigel Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Weigel Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oleson Foundation, Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
- Where is Weigel Family Foundation based?
- Weigel Family Foundation is based in MI.
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