Delaware · Private foundation
William T and Frances A Little Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $3.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2021
- Median grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 1
- FY2018 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $259M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations William T and Frances A Little Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 45 | $3.5M | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $2.0M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $2.0M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $2.0M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $2.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated | $8,000,001 | 4 | 2% |
| Kalamazoo Junior Golf Association | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Michigan Fraternal Order of Police Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Williams Syndrome Association Inc | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dolphin Life Inc | $190,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Young Women's Christian Association of Kalamazoo Mi | $165,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes Inc | $130,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Kalamazoo Refugee Resource Collaborative Inc | $110,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lake Michigan Junior Golf Association | $106,500 | 1 | 7% |
| Culver Educational Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($340k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget William T and Frances A Little Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Consumers Energy Foundation · Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation
How this is measured
Compare William T and Frances A Little Foundation with peer funders
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About William T and Frances A Little Foundation
- How much does William T and Frances A Little Foundation give?
- William T and Frances A Little Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $3,555,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2021.
- What does William T and Frances A Little Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (73%), Human Services (6%), Health (6%).
- Who are William T and Frances A Little Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated ($8.0M), Kalamazoo Junior Golf Association ($200k), Michigan Fraternal Order of Police Foundation ($200k).
- Does William T and Frances A Little Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William T and Frances A Little Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as William T and Frances A Little Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation, Kalamazoo Community Foundation, Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation.
- Where is William T and Frances A Little Foundation based?
- William T and Frances A Little Foundation is based in DE.
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