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The Kresge Foundation

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$498.4M
in grants paid
2,401
grants
997
recipients
2022–2024
filing years

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

  • $5.0M

    Foundation for Detroits Future · Detroit, MI · 2024

    Project support for the detroit retiree- art trust

  • $4.4M

    The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charleston, SC · 2024

    Matching gift

  • $2.8M

    Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2024

    General operating support

  • $2.7M

    Vose River Charitable Fund · Bethesda, MD · 2024

    Project support grant to support university of south florida college of public health (coph) to serve as the new national program office (npo)

  • $2.4M

    The Barack Obama Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024

    Project support grant to support the obama foundation

  • $2.1M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

    Project support to aid operating support to the center for community investment.

  • $2.0M

    Wayne State University Research & Technology Park in the City of Detroit · Detroit, MI · 2024

    Project support to co.act detroit to for kresge innovative projects: detroit round 9.

  • $2.0M

    Marygrove Conservancy Support Corporation · Detroit, MI · 2024

    Project support grant to the marygrove conservancy support corporation (mcsc) to fund the new market tax credits transaction for the marygrove early education center.

  • $2.0M

    Office of the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs · Washington, DC · 2024

    Project support grant toward the collection of oral histories and establish a permanent collection of artifacts.

  • $1.8M

    College for Creative Studies · Detroit, MI · 2024

    Project support grant to contribute to the vibrancy of detroit communities by providing critical support to individual artists in the tri-county region.

  • $1.8M

    Culturesource · Detroit, MI · 2024

    Project support to aid support to culturesource for the 2024 and 2025 implementation of key programmatic functions for the detroit arts support initiative

  • $1.7M

    Enterprise Community Partners · Columbia, MD · 2024

    Project support to aid provides support to enterprise community partners for its cdo fund

  • $1.6M

    M-1 Rail · Detroit, MI · 2024

    General operating support

  • $1.4M

    Detroit Future City · Detroit, MI · 2024

    Project support grant to support its land use and sustainability, community and economic development, community engagement, and research initiatives and expand team capacity.

  • $1.1M

    Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

    Project support grant to support local leaders in under-resourced cities

  • $1.1M

    Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $1.0M

    Tides Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    Project support to aid supports one nation/one project, a two-year initiative to improve social cohesion and community well-being through arts and culture

  • $800,000

    Living Cities Blended Catalyst Fund Llc · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $745,000

    Community Services Unlimited · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    Project support grant to the equitable food oriented development (efod)

  • $739,000

    Detroit Riverfront Conservancy · Detroit, MI · 2024

    General operating support

  • $725,000

    Climate Justice Alliance · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $704,885

    Daisa Enterprises Llc · South Hadley, MA · 2024

    Project grant will support the backbone staffing and facilitation of the equitable food oriented development efod collaborative.

  • $700,000

    The Center for Cultural Innovation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    Project support grant to continue the implementation of ambitious

  • $700,000

    Economic Security Project · New York, NY · 2024

    Project grant support for the next phase of the partnership with the economic security project (esp).

  • $700,000

    The Center for Cultural Power · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Project support grant for the constellations culture change fund and initiative to support its 2025-2030 planned expansion

  • $700,000

    Mdc · Durham, NC · 2024

    Project support grant for the continued partnership with mdc focusing on advancing social and economic success

  • $700,000

    Historic Clayborn Temple · Memphis, TN · 2024

    Project support grant to assist operations and programs in south memphis neighborhood, citywide and beyond.

  • $700,000

    Race Forward · Washington, DC · 2024

    Project support to aid democracy and an equitable society

  • $650,000

    College for Creative Studies · Detroit, MI · 2024

    Project support for the 2024 eminent artist fellowship

  • $650,000

    Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2024

    Project support grant for the continuation of the new economy initiative's work.

  • $650,000

    Education Commission of the States · Denver, CO · 2024

    Project support grant to assist higher education systems to implement developmental education reform practices.

  • $650,000

    Windward Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

    Project support to strengthen the capacity of grassroots leaders to advance equitable climate and clean energy guidelines

  • $646,000

    Emerging Markets Development Corporation · Palm Springs, CA · 2024

    Project support to aid the establishment of neighborhood real estate investment trusts.

  • $620,000

    Invest Detroit Foundation · Detroit, MI · 2024

    Project support grant for the second round of funding for the detroit strategic neighborhood fund

  • $600,000

    Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

    Project support grant to build the capacity of organizations to advance climate and clean energy practices

  • $600,000

    Human Impact Partners · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Project support to strengthen relationships between local health departments and community power building organizations that promote community safety, climate resilience and health equity.

  • $600,000

    Smart Growth America · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $600,000

    Results for America · Washington, DC · 2024

    Project support the local infrastructure hub to provide technical assistance to cities applying for and deploying federal funding for infrastructure

  • $600,000

    New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

    Project project grant support to serve as the intermediate for a funder collaborative.

  • $575,000

    Urban Strategies · Saint Louis, MO · 2024

    Project support grant to provide continued funding for their person-centered systems change efforts to ensure that families living in low-wealth communities are included in framework development.

  • $575,000

    Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Saint Paul, MN · 2024

    Project support grant to continue partnership with the city of saint paul, and the saint paul and minnesota foundation

  • $570,000

    The Miami Foundation · Miami, FL · 2024

    Project support grant that supports the third iteration of the reimagining the civic commons

  • $560,000

    Enterprise Community Partners · Columbia, MD · 2024

    Project support grant for the key corridor fund

  • $560,000

    Detroit Future City · Detroit, MI · 2024

    General operating support

  • $554,925

    Detroit Economic Growth Association · Detroit, MI · 2024

    Project support grant to support a coalition of detroit-based environmental organizations in partnership with the city of detroit

  • $550,000

    Public Health Institute · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Project support grant for the build health places network (bhpn) community innovations.

  • $550,000

    Accelerator for America · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    Project support for technical assistance, capacity building, and economic mobility for three cities.

  • $525,000

    Thurgood Marshall College Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

    Project support to aid low-income detroit students with the cost of attending historically black colleges and universities (hbcus)

  • $525,000

    United Negro College Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

    Project support to aid low-income detroit students with the cost of attending historically black colleges and universities (hbcus)

  • $520,000

    Fresno Building Healthy Communities · Fresno, CA · 2024

    Project support to implement a community justice network

  • $500,000

    Eastern Market Corporation · Detroit, MI · 2024

    Project grant supports eastern eastern building support for memphis' community development sector

  • $500,000

    Central Valley Community Foundation · Fresno, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $500,000

    Midtown Detroit · Detroit, MI · 2024

    Project support to midtown detroit inc

  • $500,000

    Ndn Collective · Rapid City, SD · 2024

    General operating support

  • $500,000

    Motown Historical Museum · Detroit, MI · 2024

    Project support grant for the museum's bold future expansion project

  • $500,000

    American Public Human Services Association · Arlington, VA · 2024

    Project support to support ceo's transition, strategic planning, and field-building efforts, including public-private partnership development

  • $500,000

    Michigan Central Center for Mobility and Society · Detroit, MI · 2024

    Planning grant to support a fellowship to lead a collaboration among michigan central, the creative class group, and detroit future city

  • $500,000

    Iff · Chicago, IL · 2024

    Project support grant to develop and implement innovative financing models for early childhood and nonprofit facilities in detroit

  • $500,000

    Institute for Market Transformation · Washington, DC · 2024

    Project support to aid community engagement in the design and implementation of building retrofit strategies

  • $500,000

    Memphis Brooks Museum of Art · Memphis, TN · 2024

    Project support to aid funding towards the design and construction of the memphis brooks museum of art civic plaza

  • $481,865

    Leadership for a Networked World · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Project support grant will support leadership for a networked world (lnw) to design the 2025 nextgen frontline innovators in action institute cohort ii and ongoing programming for cohort i.

  • $475,000

    Womens Foundation of the South · New Orleans, LA · 2024

    Project support grant for ongiong support for collective health, wealth and power across 13 states.

  • $473,189

    Iff · Chicago, IL · 2024

    Project support to manage the implementation of the hope starts here framework

  • $450,000

    The Reinvestment Fund · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

    Project support to aid the long-term financial sustainability and community engagement of historically black colleges and universities (hbcus)

  • $450,000

    Michigan Community Resources · Detroit, MI · 2024

    Project support grant to continue to serve as a capacity and cohort build partner for kresge innovative projects: detroit initiative.

  • $450,000

    Boston Ujima Project · Jamaica Plain, MA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $450,000

    Local Initiatives Support Corporation · New York City, NY · 2024

    Project support to aidate and expand liscs work to utilize community and economic development to close the wealth, health, and opportunity gap in america

  • $450,000

    American Public Human Services Association · Arlington, VA · 2024

    Project support focused on people-centered system change by the public sector

  • $450,000

    Communities First · Flint, MI · 2024

    Project support to aid families with realizing multigenerational family social economic success in detroit

  • $445,000

    New America Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $425,000

    Michigan College Access Network · Lansing, MI · 2024

    General operating support

  • $425,000

    Springboard To Opportunities · Jackson, MS · 2024

    Project support grant to advance family social and economic success in jackson, ms

  • $400,000

    Vose River Charitable Fund · Bethesda, MD · 2024

    Project support grant for the fourth and final iteration of the build health challenge.

  • $400,000

    The Corbin Hill Food Project · New York, NY · 2024

    Project support to aid community-led movement that effectively infuses justice into health and food systems transformation, specifically in produce prescription and food as medicine programs

  • $400,000

    Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2024

    Project support grant to deepen capacity, collaboration, and alignment in the field of equitable climate resilience

  • $400,000

    Urban Sustainability Directors Network · Sanford, NC · 2024

    Project support grant to aid, support, and empower the equitable sustainability efforts.

  • $400,000

    Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2024

    Project support the convergence partnership's and building support for memphis' community development sector

  • $400,000

    Martha O'Bryan Center · Nashville, TN · 2024

    Project support grant to provide support for a pilot intended to mitigate the effects of the benefits cliff and establish a new approach for how tennessee can provide more effective social services and supports.

  • $400,000

    Urban Sustainability Directors Network · Sanford, NC · 2024

    Project support to help leading cities advance the practice of aggressive and equitable urban decarbonization

  • $400,000

    Neighborhood Funders Group · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Project which supports low-income communities to build power and influence decisions.

  • $395,000

    The Funders Network · Coral Gables, FL · 2024

    Project support to aid the partners for places grant program and tfns urban water funders (uwf) working group

  • $385,000

    Essential Hospitals Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

    Project support to build resilience, accelerate climate mitigation, and reduce greenhouse gases and waste among 300 member hospitals.

  • $380,000

    Utec · Lowell, MA · 2024

    Project support grant to expand its youth-led organizing, advocacy efforts to address systemic changes.

  • $379,370

    South African Institute for Distance Education · 2024

    Project support to aid the management of siyaphumelela 3.0 to enhance student success in south africa

  • $375,500

    Island Press · Washington, DC · 2024

    Project support to bolster urban practitioners abilities to incorporate climate mitigation and adaptation into their work.

  • $375,000

    Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2024

    Project support to aid tools for advocates in the transition to renewable energy

  • $375,000

    Local Initiatives Support Corporation - Memphis · New York, NY · 2024

    Project and general operating support

  • $370,000

    Coalition On Temporary Shelter · Detroit, MI · 2024

    Project support grant for cots

  • $360,000

    Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation · Detroit, MI · 2024

    Project support for the coordination of detroit's higher education ecosystem to reach 60% degree attainment by 2030

  • $355,000

    US Water Alliance · Federal Way, WA · 2024

    Project support grant to scale and strengthen the water equity network (wen)

  • $350,590

    Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2024

    Project support grant for the climate change, health & equity initiative peer-learning support

  • $350,000

    National Black Worker Center · Raleigh, NC · 2024

    Project support grant to address the economic gap facing workers in detroit.

  • $350,000

    Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation · Washington, DC · 2024

    Project grant support for memphis' community development sector

  • $350,000

    Chisholm Legacy Project · Burtonsville, MD · 2024

    Project support grant to strengthen the capacity of leaders.

  • $350,000

    Solutions Project · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Project support grant to grow the influence and impact of climate justice organizations

  • $350,000

    Detroit Justice Center · Detroit, MI · 2024

    General operating support

  • $350,000

    Possibility Labs · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Project support to organize health systems to allocate mission-related investments that expand safe and healthy housing.

  • $350,000

    Stand for Children Leadership Center · Portland, OR · 2024

    Project support to aid stand for childrens efforts to advance justice through empowerment and community building in memphis and tennessee

  • $350,000

    Live6 Alliance · Detroit, MI · 2024

    General operating support

  • $325,000

    Metropolitan Action Commission · Nashville, TN · 2024

    Project support grant to expand and strengthen service delivery, improve evidence based research, and provide training and technical assistance to the national nextgen cohort ii

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