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A Alfred Taubman Foundation at a glance

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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.

$7.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
101
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$5.7MArts & Culture$4.2MEducation$3.8MHealth$2.6MScience & Tech$1.3MCivil Rights$1.2MReligion$1000kInternational$595kOther$0
02FY2024 · 101 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $635k
  • $50k–250k32 grants · $2.6M
  • $250k+9 grants · $4.0M
$25,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$212M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY$300,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$300,000
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$250,000
WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE - OFFICE OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS$250,000
MILKEN CENTER FOR ADVANCING THE AMERICAN DREAM$200,000
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$200,000
COBALT FOUNDATION$125,000
CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA$125,000
PALM BEACH SYNAGOGUE$100,000
BROOKLYN MUSEUM$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $35k → 8%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 12%THE FAMILY PLACE: $2k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $35k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $10k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $5k → 8%ORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $10k → 8%CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $5k → 8%CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $15k → 8%CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $5k → 8%CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $5k → 8%BASBLUE FOUNDATION: $10k → 21%BASBLUE FOUNDATION: $10k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 15% of A Alfred Taubman Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

A Alfred Taubman Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 53 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
44

Total granted

$11M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+13%

Still filing today

83%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TB
    THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +52%
  • THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +8%
  • PB
    PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $955k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • GU
    GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM AND POLICYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +75%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -51%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

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.

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5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
8
University of New Haven

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…

Education
9
Manhattan University

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…

Education
10
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
11
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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.

Education
12
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

104 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/104
Grantees still filing
60/104
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $5,275,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROITJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $255,400 · Philanthropy+5 more: $470,000 · Philanthropy+5 moreGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 · OtherGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYUniversity of Michigan: $816,666 · OtherUniversity of MichiganPALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE INC: $451,000 · OtherPALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGO…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $300,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA B…WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE - OFFICE OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: $250,000 · OtherMILKEN CENTER FOR ADVANCING THE AMERICAN DREAM: $200,000 · OtherRACQUET UP DETROIT: $400,000 · OtherRACQUET UP DETROIT+58 more: $1,510,800 · Other+58 moreTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $1,338,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN INSTITU…THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $1,225,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT INSTITUT…MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $350,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORA…The Society of the Four Arts Inc: $315,000 · Arts & CultureThe Society of the F…+26 more: $614,000 · Arts & Culture+26 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,259,500 · EducationPresident and Fellow…PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC: $955,000 · EducationPALM BEACH DAY ACADE…CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: $826,000 · EducationCRANBROOK EDUCATIONA…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSIT…+9 more: $218,000 · Education+9 moreCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $660,000 · HealthNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $205,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $75,000 · Health+10 more: $101,000 · HealthAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $600,000 · Civil RightsCOBALT FOUNDATION: $217,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM AND POLICY: $100,000 · Civil RightsMORE PERFECT UNION FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $425,000 · InternationalCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $125,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $100,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LUBAVITCH: $25,000 · International+1 more: $18,000 · International
Philanthropy$6,000,400Other$4,928,466Arts & Culture$3,842,000Education$3,758,500Health$1,041,000Civil Rights$967,000International$693,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $5,275,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $1,338,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,259,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $1,225,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC: $955,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: $826,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $816,666 over 4y, 45% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $660,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $600,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $425,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRACQUET UP DETROIT: $400,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $350,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $315,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $255,400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOBALT FOUNDATION: $217,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $205,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $195,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Recreation Inc: $148,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $125,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $120,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM AND POLICY: $100,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $96,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $70,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLAUNCH MICHIGAN: $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE TIME INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR ART RESEARCH AND ALLIANCES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMORE PERFECT UNION FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $30,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWEXNER CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DAIRY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LUBAVITCH: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …DTE Energy FoundationUnited Jewish Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Ag FoundationThe Skillman Foundati…The Kresge FoundationThe Ralph C Wilson Jr…Jewish Communal FundThe Ford FoundationGrosfeld FoundationHarold and Penny B Bl…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI29.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization A Alfred Taubman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from A Alfred Taubman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to A Alfred Taubman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to A Alfred Taubman Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 137 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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