Michigan · Public charity
Alan Jay and Sue E Kaufman Family Foundation
To support the jewish community and the community as a whole.
- $350k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $790k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Alan Jay and Sue E Kaufman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $230k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $278k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $335k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $120k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $172k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $300k | 71% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $219k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fresh Air Society | $862,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Michigan State University Research Foundation | $216,300 | 2 | 1% |
| Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit | $117,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Jewish Community Center | $93,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Congregation B'Nai B'Rith Hillel | $46,250 | 3 | 1% |
| Beaumont Health Foundation | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cranbrook Educational Community | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Hillel Day School of Metro Detroit | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fresh Air Society | $862,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Michigan State University Research Foundation | $216,300 | 2 | 1% |
| Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit | $117,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Jewish Community Center | $93,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Congregation B'Nai B'Rith Hillel | $46,250 | 3 | 1% |
| Beaumont Health Foundation | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cranbrook Educational Community | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Hillel Day School of Metro Detroit | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish National Fund-Usa Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $24,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Bar-Ilan University | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Farber Hebrew Day School-Yeshival Akiva | $16,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Harold Grinspoon Foundation | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Health Care Association of Michigan | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Service | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Jewish Agency for Israel | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Michigan B'Nai B'Rith Hillel Foundation Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alan Jay and Sue E Kaufman Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
Compare Alan Jay and Sue E Kaufman Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Alan Jay and Sue E Kaufman Family Foundation
- How much does Alan Jay and Sue E Kaufman Family Foundation give?
- Alan Jay and Sue E Kaufman Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $350,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Alan Jay and Sue E Kaufman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (45%), Recreation & Sports (30%), Education (11%).
- Who are Alan Jay and Sue E Kaufman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fresh Air Society ($863k), Michigan State University Research Foundation ($216k), Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit ($118k).
- Does Alan Jay and Sue E Kaufman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Alan Jay and Sue E Kaufman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Irving and Ethel Palman Foundation, Jewish Federation of Detroit, The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation.
- Where is Alan Jay and Sue E Kaufman Family Foundation based?
- Alan Jay and Sue E Kaufman Family Foundation is based in MI.
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