Michigan · Grantmakers

Foundations That Fund Community Improvement in Michigan

Imperigo has identified 443 funders that made 2,761 grants totaling $592.4M to 402 community improvement organizations in Michigan, with a median grant of $26K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.

Community Improvement Funding in Michigan

Total granted $592.4M
Funders 443
Grants 2,761
Organizations funded 402

Top Funders — page 1 of 4

1. Homeless Action Network of Detroit
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $111.6M · through 2024 · 67.6% of their giving
$197.6M
2. Alliance for Housing Oakland County Continuum of Care
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $42.9M · through 2023 · 63.2% of their giving
$73.0M
3. Foundation for Uptown Reinvestment
5 grants to 2 organizations · largest $12.8M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$27.3M
4. Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
217 grants to 76 organizations · largest $2.3M · through 2024 · 8.8% of their giving
$31.0M
5. Detroit Promise Scholarship Detroit Promise Zone Authority
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $4.6M · through 2024 · 99.7% of their giving
$9.6M
6. Detroit Regional Chamber
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $2.5M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$5.7M
7. Community House Foundation
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $1.3M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$3.8M
8. Michigan Education Excellence Foundation
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $1.8M · through 2023 · 99.1% of their giving
$3.3M
9. Southwest Michigan First Corp
6 grants to 3 organizations · largest $2.4M · through 2025 · 22.6% of their giving
$2.7M
10. Battle Creek Community Foundation
18 grants to 7 organizations · largest $686K · through 2024 · 12.1% of their giving
$3.1M
11. Grand Rapids Community Foundation
38 grants to 18 organizations · largest $1.3M · through 2024 · 6.2% of their giving
$5.0M
12. Michigan 2-1-1 Inc
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $567K · through 2024 · 11.2% of their giving
$2.5M
13. Pennies from Heaven Foundation
2 grants to 2 organizations · largest $1.0M · through 2020 · 38.7% of their giving
$1.1M
14. Michigan Manufacturing and Technology Association
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $743K · through 2022 · 31.3% of their giving
$973K
15. Southeast Michigan Grants Coalition
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $656K · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$905K
16. Jackson Community Foundation
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $1.4M · through 2020 · 11.7% of their giving
$1.4M
17. Community Foundation of Greater Flint
45 grants to 12 organizations · largest $301K · through 2024 · 5.1% of their giving
$2.8M
18. Kalamazoo Community Foundation
51 grants to 17 organizations · largest $360K · through 2024 · 3.1% of their giving
$3.2M
19. The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc
32 grants to 11 organizations · largest $433K · through 2024 · 3.9% of their giving
$2.2M
20. The Detroit Assoc of Black Org
6 grants to 3 organizations · largest $103K · through 2024 · 35.1% of their giving
$424K
21. Drive for Life
10 grants to 2 organizations · largest $104K · through 2024 · 13.3% of their giving
$586K
22. Priority Health Total Health Foundation
4 grants to 4 organizations · largest $500K · through 2024 · 6.2% of their giving
$925K
23. Bizdom
2 grants to 2 organizations · largest $200K · through 2019 · 100.0% of their giving
$250K
24. Greater Lansing Convention Visitors Bureau
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $162K · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$242K
25. Prevention Michigan
11 grants to 4 organizations · largest $91K · through 2024 · 9.3% of their giving
$486K

Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to community improvement work in Michigan, not by dollar totals alone — a foundation that concentrates its giving here is usually a better prospect than a larger one for which this is a rounding error. 12 of the funders counted here are donor-advised fund sponsors, which grant on behalf of individual donors and accept no applications; they are marked and ranked last.

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About This Data

A grant appears here when a funder reported it on its IRS Form 990 and the recipient organization is classified under the NTEE group covering community improvement work, with an address in Michigan. Grants are counted from the 2025 filing year backward.

Some 990 grant schedules list a recipient by name and address without an EIN, and those grants cannot be matched to a classification — so the totals above represent identifiable community improvement funding in Michigan, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.

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