Michigan · Private foundation
William and Karen Dobbins Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $133k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
51% of William and Karen Dobbins Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Albion Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $67,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 1
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations William and Karen Dobbins Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $66k | 94% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $3k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $60k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swingin at the Shell | $67,983 | 3 | n/a |
| Innovate Albion Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Run Albion | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Albion | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Albion Community Gardens | $2,000 | 1 | 16% |
| The Forks Senior Center | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Theres Enough | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Albion Health Care Alliance | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Albion Historical Society | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Citizens to Beautify Albion | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), 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: Albion Community Foundation · Battle Creek Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About William and Karen Dobbins Family Foundation
- How much does William and Karen Dobbins Family Foundation give?
- William and Karen Dobbins Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $133,179 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does William and Karen Dobbins Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (44%), Community Improvement (34%), Education (9%).
- Who are William and Karen Dobbins Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Swingin at the Shell ($68k), Innovate Albion Inc ($15k), Run Albion ($5k).
- Does William and Karen Dobbins Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William and Karen Dobbins Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as William and Karen Dobbins Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albion Community Foundation, Battle Creek Community Foundation.
- Where is William and Karen Dobbins Family Foundation based?
- William and Karen Dobbins Family Foundation is based in MI.
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