· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $97k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $442k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF METRO DETROIT | $190,000 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH | $100,000 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $92,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $60,350 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METRO DETROIT | $25,500 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP | $25,000 |
| DETROIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE | $16,375 |
| TAMARACK CAMPS | $10,000 |
| HILLEL OF METRO DETROIT | $7,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $7,000 |
| CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL - YAD ADHAVA | $5,000 |
| CABARET 313 | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $3,600 |
| FRIENDS OF THE IDF | $3,600 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
69 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Michigan6× · 2020–2025 · $157k · revenue +139%
- HDHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT4× · 2020–2023 · $124k · revenue +23%
- DZDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- HCHILLEL CAMPUS ALLIANCE OF MICHIGANone grant, 2023 · $20k
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -17%
- KCKARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
88 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 88 of the 157 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Detroit Historical Society ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
- Who funds Walsh College of Accountancy & Business Administration ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY ↗
- Who funds CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds CABARET 313 INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds JARC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
- Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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