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Frank N Andersen Foundation

Bridgeport, MI · EIN 38-6062616. Reported 34 grants totalling $348,220 to 30 recipients across tax years 2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$348,220granted, 2025
30recipients, as named on its returns
$6,025,942assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Frank N Andersen Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $40,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
8 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
12 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
8 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
6 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Saginaw Community FoundationSaginaw, MI$61,120512025
Covenant Healthcare FoundationSaginaw, MI$40,000112025
Andersen Enrichment CenterSaginaw, MI$25,000112025
Delta CollegeUniversity Center, MI$25,000112025
Great Lakes Bay Health CentersSaginaw, MI$25,000112025
Saginaw Valley State UniversityUniversity Center, MI$25,000112025
Hidden HarvestSaginaw, MI$15,000112025
Temple ArtsSaginaw, MI$15,000112025
Major Chords for MinorsSaginaw, MI$10,000112025
Midmich Adult Teen ChallengeSaginaw, MI$10,000112025
Rescue Ministries of MidmichiganSaginaw, MI$10,000112025
Saginaw Community Action CommitteeSaginaw, MI$10,000112025
Saginaw Habitat for HumanitySaginaw, MI$7,500112025
Big Brothers Big SistersSaginaw, MI$5,000112025
Can CouncilSaginaw, MI$5,000112025
Childrens Grief CenterMidland, MI$5,000112025
East Side Soup KitchenSaginaw, MI$5,000112025
Girl Scouts of MichiganSaginaw, MI$5,000112025
Great Lakes PaceSaginaw, MI$5,000112025
Hosital Hospitality HouseSaginaw, MI$5,000112025
Saginaw FuturesSaginaw, MI$5,000112025
Salvation ArmySaginaw, MI$5,000112025
Titabawassee TownshipFreeland, MI$5,000112025
United WaySaginaw, MI$5,000112025
PrideSaginaw, MI$3,600112025
Special Olympics of MichiganBloomfield Hills, MI$3,000112025
United Way of Saginaw CountySaginaw, MI$3,000112025
Cathederal of Mary of the AssumtionSaginaw, MI$2,000112025
Saginaw Area Fire WorksSaginaw, MI$2,000112025
Boxes on BreakSaginaw, MI$1,000112025
Plus 143 grants to individuals totalling $1,445,589 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 10 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Philanthropy & Grantmaking
6 grants
Human Services
2 grants
Arts & Culture
1 grant
Health Care
1 grant

Where its money goes

Saginaw, MI
$285K
University Center, MI
$50K
Freeland, MI
$5K
Midland, MI
$5K
Bloomfield Hills, MI
$3K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Saginaw Community Foundation12 shared recipientsWm Mcnally Family Foundation8 shared recipientsWallace & Irene Bronner Family8 shared recipientsWickson-Link Memorial Foundation7 shared recipientsAllen E & Marie a Nickless6 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Michigan.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Frank N Andersen Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 225, Bridgeport, MI, 48722. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 38-6062616 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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