Michigan Physical Fitness Health
Lansing, MI · EIN 38-3172025. Reported 158 grants totalling $38.2M to 58 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Michigan Physical Fitness Health, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E70) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 58 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 79% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $176,640. Half of what it reported fell between $52,690 and $392,173; the smallest was $5,205 and the largest $900,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids | Grand Rapids, MI | $3,893,170 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| National Kidney Foundation Inc | Ann Arbor, MI | $3,401,427 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Henry Ford Health System | Detroit, MI | $3,103,268 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Genesee Isd | Flint, MI | $2,982,257 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Crim Fitness Foundation Inc | Flint, MI | $2,764,481 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan | Detroit, MI | $2,377,723 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Saginaw Isd | Saginaw, MI | $2,044,511 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Calhoun Isd | Marshall, MI | $1,696,295 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Lahc Leaders Advancing and Helping Communities | Dearborn, MI | $1,610,372 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | $1,448,946 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Tuscola Intermediate School District | Caro, MI | $1,185,669 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Eastern Upper Peninsula Isd | Sault Ste Marie, MI | $1,156,512 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Van Buren Isd | Lawrence, MI | $994,872 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Gratiot-Isabella Resd | Ithaca, MI | $971,994 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Marquette-Alger Resa | Marquette, MI | $921,829 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Washtenaw Intermediate School District | Ann Arbor, MI | $668,469 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Kent Isd | Grand Rapids, MI | $606,982 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Health Department of Northwest Mi | Charlevoix, MI | $592,086 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Detroit Public Schools Foundation | Detroit, MI | $584,422 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Northwest Education Services | Traverse City, MI | $556,297 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| District Health Department 10 | Cadillac, MI | $463,442 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Project Healthy Community | W Bloomfield, MI | $371,892 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wayne State University | Detroit, MI | $367,367 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Traverse City Area Public Schools | Traverse City, MI | $346,732 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Bronson Health Foundation Inc | Portage, MI | $342,594 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Greater Flint Health Coalition Inc | Flint, MI | $298,906 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $244,806 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Michigan Association of Planning a Chapter of the American Planning | Ann Arbor, MI | $241,427 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| American Indian Health and Family Services of Southeastern Mi Inc | Detroit, MI | $215,835 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Michigan Dep of Natural Resources | Lansing, MI | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Western Up Health Department | Hancock, MI | $148,206 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bronson South Haven Hospital | Kalamazoo, MI | $147,929 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northwest Lansing Healthy Communities Initiative | Lansing, MI | $144,077 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Traverse Bay Area Isd | Traverse City, MI | $130,657 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Livingston Educational Svc Agency | Howell, MI | $94,714 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Chaldean American Ladies of Charity | Troy, MI | $82,718 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oakland County Health Division | Pontiac, MI | $73,349 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| East Lansing Public Schools | East Lansing, MI | $72,238 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Michigan Trails and Greenways Alliance | Lansing, MI | $72,083 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Macomb County Health Department | Mt Clemens, MI | $64,209 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Copper Country Mental Health Institute | Houghton, MI | $52,690 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Norte Youth Cycling | Traverse City, MI | $49,165 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Portland Public Schools | Portland, MI | $47,212 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Iron Belle Trail Fund | East Lansing, MI | $46,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dewitt Public Schools | Dewitt, MI | $43,526 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Ida Public Schools | Ida, MI | $43,079 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Reeths-Puffer Schools | Muskegon, MI | $40,519 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Detroit Greenways Coalition | Detroit, MI | $36,750 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Charlotte Public Schools Education Foundation Inc | Charlotte, MI | $31,671 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Crawford Ausable School District | Grayling, MI | $27,283 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bath Community Schools | Bath, MI | $25,172 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Madison District Public Schools | Madison Heights, MI | $17,546 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Charter Township of Lake Orion | Lake Orion, MI | $13,935 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ann Arbor Public Schools | Ann Arbor, MI | $11,104 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Growing Hope Inc | Ypsilanti, MI | $9,126 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Michigan Health Improvement Alliance Inc | Freeland, MI | $8,491 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ludington Area School District | Ludington, MI | $6,229 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| James and Grace Lee Boggs School | Detroit, MI | $5,205 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
37 of 58 (64%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 24 of 58 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 31 | $7,003,512 | $130,657 |
| 2021 | 26 | $6,921,618 | $213,788 |
| 2022 | 31 | $7,441,882 | $194,386 |
| 2023 | 36 | $8,568,922 | $160,787 |
| 2024 | 34 | $8,264,032 | $149,296 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. 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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $176,640 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Michigan.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Michigan Physical Fitness Health's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 14 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 19 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 27187, Lansing, MI, 48909.
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