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Hal & Jean Glassen Memorial Foundation Attn

Sunfield, MI · EIN 38-3012223. Reported 36 grants totalling $1,157,928 to 20 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$12,250median grant
$1,157,928granted, 2021-2024
20organizations funded
56%of grantees funded again the next year
$5,893,130assets, 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. Hal & Jean Glassen Memorial Foundation Attn 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 $12,250. Half of everything it gave fell between $4,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $250 and the largest $204,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
2 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
8 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
8 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
3 grants
$100,000 and Up
5 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Capital Area Sportsmen's LeagueLansing, MI$324,000332024
USA Shooting IncColorado Springs, CO$301,500332023
Potter Park Zoological SocietyLansing, MI$200,000112024
Outdoor Discovery CenterHolland, MI$75,000332024
National Wild Turkey FederationEdgefield, SC$60,000332023
Ducks UnlimitedDexter, MI$50,000112024
Center for Michigan Bridge MagazineAnn Arbor, MI$30,000332023
Great Lakes Leadership Academy Attn Jordan Burrough DirectorEast Lansing, MI$25,000112024
YMCA of Greater Michiana Attn Patricia Green DirectorNiles, MI$20,000112024
Woldumar Nature CenterLansing, MI$13,178112022
Michigan State UniversityEast Lansing, MI$12,000112024
Msu Hunting Course Msu Dept of Fisheries and WildlifeEast Lansing, MI$10,000112024
President Ford Field Service CouncilGrand Rapids, MI$10,000222022
BSA President Ford Field Service Council Aaron Gach Scout ExecutiveGrand Rapids, MI$5,000112024
Michigan Outdoor Writers AssnLapeer, MI$5,000112023
Girl Scouts Heart of MichiganGrand Ledge, MI$4,000112021
Michigan United Conservation ClubsSunfield, MI$4,000222024
Mucc Annual Charity ShootLansing, MI$3,250222022
Lakewood Public SchoolsWoodland, MI$3,000332023
Msu College of Veterinary MedicineEast Lansing, MI$3,000222022

10 of 20 (50%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 56%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

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 recipient's own IRS classification, for the 15 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Animal Welfare
4 grants
Environment
3 grants
Education
3 grants
Arts & Culture
1 grant
Youth Development
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20219$183,500$5,000
20229$357,428$12,500
20238$200,250$7,500
202410$416,750$22,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 69% of this one's giving went to organizations in Michigan. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Michigan
$796K
Colorado
$302K
South Carolina
$60K

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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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

National Philanthropic Trust4 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund4 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc4 shared recipientsConsumers Energy Foundation2 shared recipientsRe Olds Foundation2 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America2 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $12,250. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Hal & Jean Glassen Memorial Foundation Attn's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 250, Sunfield, MI, 48890. 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 38-3012223 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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