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Alan Jay and Sue E Kaufman Family Foundation

To support the jewish community and the community as a whole.

$350k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$1.3MRecreation & Sports$863kEducation$296kHuman Services$128kReligion$126kInternational$49kHealth$40kOther$152k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $285k
$35,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$790k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRESH AIR SOCIETY$200,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT$85,000
UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION$35,000
JEWISH COMMUNTIY CENTER$20,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METRO DETROIT: $95k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $13k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $10k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 7 repeat orgs$223k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
11

Total granted

$1.4M
$213k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+14%

Still filing today

86%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionInternationalHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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

  • FA
    FRESH AIR SOCIETY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $863k · revenue +45%
  • MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2019 · $216k · revenue +158%
  • HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $55k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -4%
  • JN
    JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • HD
    HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROITgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +59%

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

04Your field

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.

1
The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy
2
Hillel of Metropolitan Detroit

Inspire students to be active in jewish life.

Education
3
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
4
Hillel Jewish University Center

To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

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5
University of Judaism Foundation
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6
Rutgers Hillel Corporation

Rutgers hillel is dedicated to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all jewish college students, where they are encouraged to grow intellectually, spiritually and socially. the organization helps students find a balance in…

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7
Hebrew Free Loan Association

The association provides financial assistance to jewish people in the state of michigan through the lending of money without interest in accordance with core jewish values, respect, compassion, and confidentiality.

Philanthropy
8
Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor

The federation provides and inspires philanthropic leadership and community-building to nurture a strong, engaged, connected, vibrant, and enduring jewish community locally, in israel, and around the world.

Philanthropy
9
Jsl Foundation

We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.

Human Services
10
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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11
Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Hillel Center for Jewish Life At University of Md

Enhance the lives of jewish students as that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. hillel actively seeks to engage jewish students on their own terms, to provide them with opportunities to participate in jewish life.

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12
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life At the Penn State University

To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit and the most unlike its peers is Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
10/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT — $1,229,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT+1 more — $35,000 · PhilanthropyFRESH AIR SOCIETY — $862,500 · Recreation & SportsFRESH AIR SOCIETYMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $216,300 · EducationMICHIGAN ST…CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY — $35,000 · EducationCRANBROOK E…HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT — $25,000 · EducationHILLEL DAY …AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationAMERICAN FR…JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $93,000 · OtherFARBER HEBREW DAY SCHOOL-YESHIVAL AKIVA — $16,500 · OtherTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION — $12,500 · OtherHEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN — $12,500 · OtherTHE JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL — $10,000 · OtherMICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT — $117,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $10,000 · Human ServicesHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $55,000 · ReligionCONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL — $46,250 · ReligionJEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK — $25,000 · ReligionJEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC — $25,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $24,000 · InternationalBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Health
Philanthropy$1,264,000Recreation & Sports$862,500Education$296,300Other$152,000Human Services$127,500Religion$126,250International$49,000Health$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT — $1,229,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetFRESH AIR SOCIETY — $862,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $216,300 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT — $117,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL — $46,250 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $24,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN — $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

The Irving and Ethel …Jewish Federation of …The Eugene Applebaum …William Davidson Foun…The Jewish FundUnited Jewish Foundat…Community Foundation …Jonathan and Beth Low…Grosfeld FoundationHarold and Penny B Bl…The Ravitz FoundationThe Sylvia Pevin and …
The Irving and Ethel Palman FoundationMI19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Irving and Ethel Palman Foundation · Jewish Federation of Detroit · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · William Davidson Foundation · The Jewish Fund · United Jewish Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Jonathan and Beth Lowe Family Foundation · Grosfeld Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · The Ravitz Foundation · The Sylvia Pevin and George Pevin Foundation

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 Alan Jay and Sue E Kaufman Family 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Alan Jay and Sue E Kaufman Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Alan Jay and Sue E Kaufman Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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