Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Detroit, Michigan

163
foundations with a Detroit address
$489.9M
grants paid, FY2023–FY2025
51
say they accept unsolicited
$12,713
median grant

Grantlas lists 163 foundations that gave a Detroit, Michigan address on their tax filing — 154 private foundations and 9 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2023–FY2025. Together they paid out $489.9 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 51 of them (31%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Detroit foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 163 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 26 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in Detroit, Michigan
The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation$100,000$141.2M$81–$10MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Skillman Foundation$10,000$17.8M$50–$500,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Dte Energy Foundation$10,025$15.8M$100–$1.2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
McGregor Fund$40,000$13.5M$100–$650,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Hudson-Webber Foundation$13,425$9.1M$200–$550,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Paul and Maxine Frohring Foundation Inc$200,000$5.1M$10,000–$1.6MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
William & Martha Ford Fund$1,000$3.2M$150–$2.1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Ahavas Avraham Foundation$2,000$3M$50–$500,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Ethel and James Flinn Foundation$15,000$2.9M$50–$200,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Simpson Foundation$20,000$2.1M$1,000–$450,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Joel Landy Foundation$1M$2MOne amountFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Henry Ford II Fund$50,000$1.6M$10,000–$1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Benson & Edith Ford Fund$7,750$1.3M$2,000–$700,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Matilda R Wilson Fund$25,000$1.3M$4,050–$400,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Harvest Charities$22,500$1.1M$1,000–$350,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Edwin J and Ruth M Shoemaker Foundation$25,000$894,500$3,500–$100,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Morse Charitable Foundation Inc$15,000$862,757$5,000–$100,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Eleanor & Edsel Ford Fund$200,000$850,000$25,000–$200,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Lynn & Paul Alandt Foundation$5,000$526,100$400–$263,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
John and Helen Davis Scholarship TR$480,628$480,628—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Allegra C Ford-Thomas Foundation$7,500$411,333$1,000–$333,333FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial$10,000$325,000$5,000–$15,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Callant Family Foundation-Cma$25,000$312,800$3,000–$80,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Victor and Mary Nelson Scholarship Fund$8,000$277,000$2,000–$76,500FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Edsel B Ford II Fund$8,750$258,500$2,000–$35,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2023–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.