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Annually we have a book sale to raise funds to help non-profit organizations that help others with literacy throughout Michigan.

$181k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232024.

Education$64kReligion$58kPhilanthropy$53kArts & Culture$33kHuman Services$28kCommunity Improvement$19k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 12 grants below total $141,515 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $180,654 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $39,139 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $93k
$9,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$147k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Congregation of Beth Ahm$24,465
DKG$23,541
Greater Detroit Chapter of Hadassah$18,504
Nat Council of Jewish Women$15,267
Jewish Historical Society$10,774
City Year$9,000
Inside Out$9,000
Oakland County Literacy$8,396
Hillel Day School$5,999
Ort America Michigan Region$5,981
Jewish Federation Women's Philanthropy$5,554
Detroit Public Schools Community District$5,034
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 39% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%City Year: $11k → 16%Greater Detroit Chapter of Hadassah: $19k → 17%Congregation of Beth Ahm: $24k → 8%DKG: $17k → 14%DKG: $24k → 16%City Year: $9k → 21%Congregation of Beth Ahm: $22k → 8%Inside Out: $9k → 21%Women's Philanthropy: $7k → 8%Detroit Public Schools Community District: $5k → 21%Ort America Michigan Region: $6k → 8%InsideOut Literary Arts: $7k → 21%Jewish Federation Women's Philanthropy: $6k → 8%Greater Detroit Chapter of Hadassah: $12k → 8%Oakland Literacy: $12k → 8%Oakland County Literacy: $8k → 8%Jewish Historical Society: $11k → 8%Hillel Day School: $7k → 8%Jewish Historical Society: $6k → 8%Hillel Day School: $6k → 8%Nat Council of Jewish Women: $15k → 8%National Council of Jewish Women: $13k → 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$201k · 8 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$201k
$12k

Still filing today

75%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Community ImprovementArts & CultureEducationOther

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

  • NC
    NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG
    2× · 2023–2024 · $28k · revenue +19%
  • CITY YEAR INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +3%
  • JH
    JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN
    2× · 2023–2024 · $17k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • GD
    Greater Detroit Chapter of Hadassah
    one grant, 2023 · $12k

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
Hillel of Metropolitan Detroit

Inspire students to be active in jewish life.

Education
2
Aish Hatorah Detroit

To ignite jewish passion and empower every jew to embrace their heritage, thereby ensuring the vibrant continuity of the jewish epople.

Religion
3
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
4
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

5
Keren L'torah

Keren l'torah will promote jewish education in the greater detroit jewish community through classes, lectures, and distribution of written and audio materials. all educational opportunities by the corporation will be either free or at a…

Religion
6
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
7
Dorot Foundation
Philanthropy
8
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
9
Detroit Jews for Justice

Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors

Civil Rights
10
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
11
Greater Miami Hillel Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

12
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc

Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit and the most unlike its peers is Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 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)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONGREGATION BETH AHM — $46,097 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH AHMDELTA KAPPA GAMMA SOCIETY BETA CHAPTER MICHIGAN FOUNDATION — $40,531 · OtherDELTA KAPPA GAMMA SOCIETY BETA CHAPTER MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONCITY YEAR INC — $20,190 · OtherCITY YEAR INCOAKLAND LITERACY COUNCIL — $20,183 · OtherOAKLAND LITERACY COUNCILJEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN — $16,801 · OtherJEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGANGreater Detroit Chapter of Hadassah — $12,118 · OtherGreater Detroit Chapter of HadassahORT AMERICA INC — $5,981 · Other+1 more — $5,034 · OtherNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG — $27,856 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL COUNCIL OF …Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc — $18,504 · Community ImprovementHadassah The Women's…INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT — $16,000 · Arts & CultureHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT — $12,996 · EducationJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT — $12,112 · Philanthropy
Other$166,935Community Improvement$46,360Arts & Culture$16,000Education$12,996Philanthropy$12,112

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG — $27,856 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $20,190 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOAKLAND LITERACY COUNCIL — $20,183 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc — $18,504 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN — $16,801 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetINSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT — $16,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT — $12,996 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT — $12,112 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORT AMERICA INC — $5,981 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Bruce H and Rosalie N Rosen Family FoundationMI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bruce H and Rosalie N Rosen Family Foundation · Sills Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Bookstock 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • City Year Inc11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 Bookstock?

Find your warmest path to Bookstock 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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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