Michigan · Private foundation
Why Not You Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $35k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $181k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Why Not You Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $35k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $150k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $279k | 83% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $13k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $770 | 100% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $8k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $85k | n/a |
96% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Philanthropy$213kEducation$168kHealth$125kHuman Services$40kYouth Development$10kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charitable Gift America Inc | $213,250 | 1 | 13% |
| Washington University | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| L E a D Foundation Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 45% |
| Michigan State University | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| William Beaumont Hospital | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oakland University | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rochester Community Schools | $250 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($179k), not named here.
About Why Not You Foundation
- How much does Why Not You Foundation give?
- Why Not You Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $35,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Why Not You Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (37%), Education (29%), Health (22%).
- Who are Why Not You Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Charitable Gift America Inc ($213k), Washington University ($75k), L E a D Foundation Inc ($40k).
- Does Why Not You Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Why Not You Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Why Not You Foundation based?
- Why Not You Foundation is based in MI.
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