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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
🎉 Please join us in celebrating Heidi Alcock, McGregor Fund Vice President of Strategy & Grants Portfolio and all-around exceptional human being, who recently marked a decade of work with us.
Heidi leads the Fund's grantmaking and program strategy, and guides the evolution of the grants portfolio to become a truer reflection of community culture and vision.
From everyone at the McGregor Fund, we thank you, Heidi, for your intentional, innovative, and heart-centered leadership — and we’re beaming at the reality of just how lucky we are to have you on our team. ❤️
📰 What we’re reading: BridgeDetroit’s feature on Luke Shaefer, Chief Executive of Health, Human Services and Poverty Solutions and Benita Miller, Director, Department of Human, Homeless and Family Services for the City of Detroit Government.
Together, Miller and Shaefer are “working to reduce poverty and make it easier for vulnerable Detroiters to get the help they need…[and] change systems so they work better for families.”
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In the second half of 2025, the McGregor Fund’s grantmaking included nearly $2.3 million in emergency funds, through 21 grants, to partners who are activating mutual aid networks and community-driven solutions, working to increase access to quality food, scaling local food production, and building pipelines of safety for support for vulnerable citizens — among other critical work.
This rapid deployment of funds largely responded to federal retrenchment, including to the halt of SNAP benefits last fall, and was developed in close collaboration with partners and funding peers.
Grants were made as emergency funding to stabilize essential services and to provide core operating support for our partners navigating shifting public policies and funding landscapes. Highlights of our grant partners' work included:
📌 Produce rescue and distribution
📌 Provision of food and basic needs to senior citizens
📌 Prepared meals and food boxes for families
📌 Support for vulnerable returning citizens
📌 Food and housing vouchers for youth.
➡️ 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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In the second half of 2025, the McGregor Fund made four additional grants, totaling $735,000, to partner organizations working to strengthen the infrastructure of civil society and to promote justice and equity, particularly in an environment marked by increasing threats and challenges to the well-being of Detroit and its residents.
Our grant partners’ work includes:
📌 Building an ecosystem in Detroit that centers Black thriving.
📌 Promoting justice and changing lives and laws by advancing alternatives to drug-related arrests and incarceration; this includes increased access to health services and partnership-building with advocates and harm reduction programs.
📌 Advancing strategic communications around healthcare access.
📌 Growing organizational capacity for participatory grantmaking and grassroots leadership.
➡️ 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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In the second half of 2025, the McGregor Fund made five grants, totaling $1.3 million, under our Skill Building & Employment umbrella to promote economic justice and mobility and focusing on personal development, fulfillment, choice and connection.
A note about our grant partners:
📌 One grant was made to a partner who provides skills training and creates entrepreneurship and living-wage employment opportunities for women, while connecting them to preventative and mental health care and pathways to stability and economic independence.
📌 Additional grant funding was allocated to a partner designing innovative programs that integrate employment readiness training, skill building, and wraparound services.
📌 To respond to the increasing challenges particularly marginalized groups are facing, the Fund is also granting support to a partner advancing economic justice for immigrants working to achieve stability, grow within the regional economy, and engage in local systems and civic life.
📌 Additionally, the Fund made a grant to support a partner’s capacity to lead organizing and leadership skill-building efforts, build youth power, and further strengthen the youth-led organizing ecosystem.
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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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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