· Private foundation
A Alfred Taubman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $635k
- $50k–250k32 grants · $2.6M
- $250k+9 grants · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT | $1,050,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $500,000 |
| BROOKLYN MUSEUM | $500,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $350,000 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY | $300,000 |
| WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE - OFFICE OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS | $250,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| MILKEN CENTER FOR ADVANCING THE AMERICAN DREAM | $200,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA | $125,000 |
| COBALT FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $100,000 |
| CHILD MIND INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $152k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of A Alfred Taubman Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TBTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +52%
THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS3× · 2022–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +8%- PBPALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $955k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- GUGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -51%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM AND POLICYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +75%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Israel Forever Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
104 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 104 of the 137 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RACQUET UP DETROIT ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COBALT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Recreation Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM AND POLICY ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
- Who funds TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Ag Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ford Foundation · Grosfeld Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization A Alfred Taubman Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jazz House Kids Inc — 29% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc — 6% of income from government
- Palm Beach Day Academy Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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