About Frankenmuth Insurance Foundation
The Frankenmuth Insurance Foundation concentrates its giving on supporting public universities and their community-facing programs rather than local charities. Its recent grants are sizable, directed to higher-education institutions (Eastern Kentucky University and Georgia State University) for community support purposes, indicating an interest in university-led community improvement or outreach initiatives.
Focus Areas
General operating and community support for public universitiesUniversity-led community improvement and outreach programsInstitutional support routed through university foundations
Who They Fund
local communitiesneighborhood residentscommunity-based organizations
Giving Approach
Highly concentrated: a small number of relatively large grants (four grants totaling $200K) primarily to higher-education institutions, including repeat funding to at least one university. Grants appear unrestricted/for community support rather than narrow project funding.
Funding Style
About Frankenmuth Insurance Foundation
Two universities anchor the foundation’s largest recent grants: Eastern Kentucky University and Georgia State University Foundation each received $50,000 in both 2024 and 2025 for community support. That pattern points to a funder that uses institutional grants to back community-facing work through public higher-education channels. Frankenmuth Insurance Foundation also supports local nonprofit infrastructure and basic-needs service organizations, with repeated gifts to United Way of Saginaw County, Covenant Healthcare Foundation, and other Michigan-based groups. The grant list includes community support awards to food, health, housing, and social-service organizations, alongside university-related support. Its giving is regional and highly concentrated in Michigan, but the recipient list also reaches organizations in Kentucky, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Washington, DC, Indiana, and several other states. The overall picture is of a foundation that combines recurring institutional support with broader community-benefit grantmaking through established nonprofits and university foundations.
What Frankenmuth Insurance Foundation Funds
In community development and place-based support, the foundation gave $30,000 to United Way of Saginaw County in 2025 for community support, repeating similar grants in 2024 and 2023. It also awarded $8,284 to Crossroads Counseling Ministries in Frankenmuth for community support, showing attention to local service organizations. Basic human needs appear in several awards to food and housing-related groups. Examples include $5,000 to Food Bank of Eastern Michigan in Flint, $5,000 to Food Gatherers in Ann Arbor, and $5,000 to Ypsilanti Meals on Wheels, all listed as community support. Health-related support shows up through $25,000 grants to Covenant Healthcare Foundation in Saginaw in both 2023 and 2024, plus smaller gifts to American Cancer Society in Detroit and Vina Dental Center in Brighton. The foundation also supported disaster or relief-oriented work through grants to Harvest Hope and Samaritan's Purse in 2025.
How Frankenmuth Insurance Foundation Gives
Typical grants are small: the 25th percentile and median are both $2,000, and the 75th percentile is $3,551. The recent list also shows a separate pattern of larger community-support awards at $25,000 to $50,000, usually tied to universities or major community institutions. Several recipients repeat across multiple years, including United Way of Saginaw County, Eastern Kentucky University, Georgia State University Foundation, and Covenant Healthcare Foundation. The foundation makes grants through named programs, including the Frankenmuth Charitable Foundation Grants, Civic Sponsorship Program, and Frankenmuth Insurance Foundation Grant Program, and at least two programs accept unsolicited requests.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$389K
Total Assets
$5.1M
Total Revenue
$820K
Total Expenses
$460K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $2K and $4K, with a median of $2K.
25th Percentile
$2K
Median
$2K
75th Percentile
$4K
Geographic Reach
Regional23 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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