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McGregor Fund Announces $7.5 Million in Grants
The McGregor Fund is pleased to share news of $7.5 million in grants awarded to 37 area nonprofit organizations in the second half of 2025.
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From grantmaking updates to sharing what we’re learning from our community, grantee partners, and peers, we invite you to learn more about our ongoing work here.
McGregor Fund Announces $7.5 Million in Grants
The McGregor Fund is pleased to share news of $7.5 million in grants awarded to 37 area nonprofit organizations in the second half of 2025.
Highlighting the Work of Our Grant Partners
In the second half of 2025, the McGregor Fund made Recovery & Restoration grants, totaling $1.2 million, to five grant partners, for pathways to safety and healing from interpersonal and societal violence, abuse and inequity.
A note about our grant partners:
📌 We supported partners providing comprehensive, trauma-informed, survivor-centered care for individuals impacted by sexual violence, including emergency and long-term support services, crisis hotlines, medical exams, legal support and prevention programs, as well as interdisciplinary work to strengthen systemic approaches to combating violence and meeting the needs of survivors.
📌 We made other grants to a partner developing housing stability interventions for Detroiters affected by excessive property tax assessments and foreclosures and to another partner promoting mental health awareness and early intervention services to youth and families via school-based and community programming.
📌 For several of these partners, the Fund continues to help fill significant current and anticipated operating budget shortfalls caused by greatly delayed and/or dramatically reduced federal funding.
➡️ Read a letter from our president and learn about our grantmaking here: mcgregorfund.org/mcgregor-fund-announces-7-5-million-in-grants/
In the second half of 2025, the McGregor Fund made 24 Basic Needs: Housing and Food grants, totaling $3.9 million, for food, shelter, and other necessities essential for day-to-day living.
A note about our grant partners:
📌 To advance housing justice and to address urgent housing and basic needs, we awarded grants to networks connecting Detroiters to essential health resources, community-based care and shelter bed availability. Support also went to partners providing housing, wraparound services and pathways to stability and thriving. These include a community-driven residential project, integrated health and prevention services, an early-intervention, direct financial support program, and other work to continue building a youth homelessness ecosystem.
📌 Grants were also made to partners experiencing funding cuts, to sustain their vital work to promote housing stability for individuals and families in crisis and to provide permanent supportive housing services for those experiencing chronic homelessness, substance abuse disorders and other disabling conditions.
📌 Also included were grants to promote food justice, in support of neighborhood food sovereignty, community resilience, land stewardship, emergency food distribution and food access, and the region’s food system infrastructure. Grants were also made to advance partners providing energy-saving, health-and-safety interventions, and community crisis preparation and response networks.
Read a letter from our president and learn about our grantmaking here: mcgregorfund.org/mcgregor-fund-announces-7-5-million-in-grants/
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📣The McGregor Fund is pleased to announce $7.5 million in grants awarded to 37 nonprofit organizations in the second half of 2025.
📌Our grantmaking included support for partners who are advancing food sovereignty and housing justice work, responding powerfully to interruptions in essential services and funding, working towards housing stability, creating opportunities for skill-building and entrepreneurship, developing community support, building youth leadership ecosystems, and supporting the well-being and overall thriving of Detroiters.
📌The Fund has also continued emergency grantmaking to current grant partners impacted by federal budget cuts and those serving individuals at risk of losing housing, access to basic needs, or safety.
From McGregor Fund President Kate Levin Markel:
💬“As an endowed foundation, we recognized our position of strength and power, and with that, our responsibility to give back more in grants. We kept our focus on justice — in housing, in access to food, in how members of our community participate in an economy with exploding inequality and daily headwinds for most everyone.”
➡️Read more from Kate and learn about our grantmaking here: mcgregorfund.org/mcgregor-fund-announces-7-5-million-in-grants/
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🤩 MCEDSV 2026 CONFERENCE CALL FOR PROPOSALS
We are excited to share this opportunity for you to consider presenting at this year’s conference, Centering Justice Amid Injustice, July 21-23, 2026 in Ann Arbor!
No matter where you do the work or what your title is, YOUR PERSPECTIVE MATTERS HERE. We welcome a wide range of presenters, including youth, people with lived experience, and those whose voices are often overlooked in formal or public spaces.
Every year we receive incredible proposals from folks in the field. Is this the year YOU apply?! We cannot wait to read your submission!
The deadline is MARCH 6th, 2026. Review the Call for Proposals!
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From SDM² Project Education: "We work really hard, not just to ensure that we are able to provide an abundance of high-quality foods, but that we offer an experience that is humanizing, joyful, and communal. We’re glad we are able to translate that vision to the community."
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McGregor Fund Founders
More than 100 years ago, the McGregors devoted their lives to community service – Tracy as an agency founder and social entrepreneur ending homelessness and unemployment for Detroit men, and Katherine as the founder and benefactor of an orphanage in Highland Park. Their proximity to people experiencing hardship and trauma informed their charitable giving and Tracy’s role as a civic leader.
McGregor Fund Founders
More than 100 years ago, the McGregors devoted their lives to community service – Tracy as an agency founder and social entrepreneur ending homelessness and unemployment for Detroit men, and Katherine as the founder and benefactor of an orphanage in Highland Park. Their proximity to people experiencing hardship and trauma informed their charitable giving and Tracy’s role as a civic leader.
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