Michigan · Private foundation
Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $582k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,600
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $190,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 63
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $530k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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 | 26 | $385k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $447k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 54 | $326k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $445k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $119k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 57 | $182k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc | $390,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Michigan State University | $201,150 | 6 | n/a |
| University of Michigan | $157,493 | 6 | 13% |
| Hillel Day School of Metro Detroit | $124,415 | 4 | 1% |
| Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit | $117,866 | 6 | 0% |
| Adat Shalom Synagogue | $112,835 | 6 | n/a |
| Beaumont Health Foundation | $105,000 | 3 | 0% |
| National Jewish Health | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue | $50,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Detroit Historical Society | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 59 recipients with no EIN on record ($237k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman 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: Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Grosfeld Foundation · The Ravitz Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Sherman Family Foundation · The Bruce H and Rosalie N Rosen Family Foundation · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust · Deroy Testamentary Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation with peer funders
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About Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation
- How much does Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation give?
- Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $581,715 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 63 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (47%), Arts & Culture (15%), Education (12%).
- Who are Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc ($390k), Michigan State University ($201k), University of Michigan ($157k).
- Does Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation, Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation, The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation.
- Where is Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation based?
- Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation is based in MI.
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