Michigan · Private foundation
Wisner Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $53k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 77%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $443k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 77% of the organizations Wisner Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 72% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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 | 13 | $53k | 69% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $49k | 77% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $40k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $37k | 63% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $29k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $25k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $28k | 70% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $24k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milwood United Methodist Church | $33,400 | 7 | n/a |
| Kalamazoo Children's Chorus | $15,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Lest We Forget Our Vets Inc | $14,450 | 4 | 77% |
| The Barker Adoption Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Heard | $10,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Sunnyside United Methodist Church | $7,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Dementia Friendly Saline | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Babyread | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Schoolcraft Community Schools | $4,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Programs to Educate All Cyclists | $4,000 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milwood United Methodist Church | $33,400 | 7 | n/a |
| Kalamazoo Children's Chorus | $15,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Lest We Forget Our Vets Inc | $14,450 | 4 | 77% |
| The Barker Adoption Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Heard | $10,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Sunnyside United Methodist Church | $7,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Dementia Friendly Saline | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Babyread | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Schoolcraft Community Schools | $4,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Programs to Educate All Cyclists | $4,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Kalamazoo Area Math & Science Center | $3,850 | 1 | n/a |
| Kalamazoo Literacy Council | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Piney Branch Elementary School PTO | $2,373 | 1 | n/a |
| Lending Hands of Michigan Inc | $2,050 | 1 | 2% |
| Bennett Elementary School PTO | $1,000 | 1 | 3% |
| belmont elementary school pta | $560 | 1 | 58% |
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($163k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wisner Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 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: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Wisner Family Foundation
- How much does Wisner Family Foundation give?
- Wisner Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $52,738 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wisner Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Arts & Culture (18%), Religion (15%).
- Who are Wisner Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Milwood United Methodist Church ($33k), Kalamazoo Children's Chorus ($15k), Lest We Forget Our Vets Inc ($14k).
- Does Wisner Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 77% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wisner Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wisner Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kalamazoo Community Foundation, Irving S Gilmore Foundation, Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation.
- Where is Wisner Family Foundation based?
- Wisner Family Foundation is based in MI.
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