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Michigan Public Health Institute

Okemos, MI · EIN 38-2963835. Reported 136 grants totalling $9,587,014 to 135 organizations across tax years 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:

1. What kind of organization it is. For Michigan Public Health Institute, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E21Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
2. How spread out its giving is. 135 distinct organizations, with 4% 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 big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $33,850. Half of what it reported fell between $27,850 and $93,662; the smallest was $8,000 and the largest $355,429. 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.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

• Ingham County Health Department $355,429 · 2024
  REDUCE COVID-19 INEQUITIES IN AT-RISK POPULATIONS
• Trinity Health - Michigan $209,568 · 2024
  DIABETES PREVENTION & MITIGATION IN HIGH-RISK POPULATIONS
• Adrian Bay Rehab and Nursing Center $104,850 · 2024
  SKILLED NURSING FACILITY STAFF CAPACITY SUPPORT
• Arizona Department of Health Services $75,000 · 2024
  EXPANSION OF FEDERAL CDR PROGRAM & DATABASE PARTICIPATION

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 19 of 135 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Where its money goes

95% of its giving went to organizations in Michigan. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

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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 the strongest signal available 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.

How to approach this grantmaker

1. 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.
2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $33,850 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Michigan.
4. 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.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Michigan Public Health Institute's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 19 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 117 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: 2436 Woodlake Circle No 300, Okemos, MI, 48864.

EIN 38-2963835 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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