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Burnstein Family 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.

$129k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$616kPhilanthropy$180kReligion$136kRecreation & Sports$108kHuman Services$92kEducation$52kYouth Development$34kCivil Rights$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$12,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JNF$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ATHLETIC DEPT$25,000
GARY BURNSTEIN HEALTH CLINIC$25,000
TEMPLE SHIR SHALOM$12,500
BASBLUE$5,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT$5,000
THRIVE SURVIVOR SUPPORT CENTER$5,000
HEAL THE PLANET TOGETHER 2025$1,800
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $2k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $2k → 8%BASBLUE: $10k → 21%BASBLUE: $5k → 21%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $8k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $4k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $4k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $4k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%JARC: $3k → 8%JARC: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
MI
NY
OH
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Burnstein Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 0%.

Burnstein Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$937k · 24 repeat orgs$178k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
38

Total granted

$937k
$171k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+32%

Still filing today

54%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HF
    HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM
    5× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +69%
  • ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    3× · 2020–2022 · $42k · revenue +17%
  • BRILLIANT DETROIT
    5× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +430%

Funded once

  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · $75k
  • DG
    DR GUY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH OF ISRAEL
    one grant, 2022 · $18k
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.

04Its field

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.

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
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
3
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
4
Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies Inc

The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…

Human Services
5
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
6
Delta Dental Fund

Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.

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7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Foundation

Operating under the name mjhs foundation, the mission of this philanthropic organization is to raise the funds necessary to support the charitable health care efforts of the organizations within the mjhs health system family. with roots…

Health
9
Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health
10
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
11
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
12
Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service; the most unlike its peers is Wish Upon a Teen. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 67 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GARY BURNSTEIN HEALTH CLINIC: $395,000 · OtherGARY BURNSTEIN HEALTH CLINICREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $100,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANTEMPLE SHIR SHALOM: $82,500 · OtherTEMPLE SHIR SHALOMCOMMUNITY HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES: $75,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICESJNF: $50,100 · OtherJNFGARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $30,000 · Other+42 more: $151,708 · Other+42 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $120,250 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDE…HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $95,000 · HealthHENRY FORD…CANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $15,250 · HealthCANCER WEL…+3 more: $2,050 · HealthLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $20,500 · Human ServicesBASBLUE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $3,600 · Human ServicesJARC: $3,500 · Human ServicesALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $42,000 · EducationBRILLIANT DETROIT: $25,150 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $5,000 · Youth Development+4 more: $1,850 · Youth DevelopmentFARM SANCTUARY INC: $2,425 · Animals+1 more: $50 · Animals
Other$884,308Philanthropy$120,250Health$112,300Human Services$42,600Education$42,000Youth Development$32,000Animals$2,475

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $120,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $42,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT: $25,150 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $20,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $15,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBASBLUE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHRIVE SURVIVOR SUPPORT CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJARC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $2,425 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIFORM FUNDING FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPROJECT HEALTHY COMMUNITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EMILY STILLMAN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPKD Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISH UPON A TEEN: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BEAR-HUG FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMER CAMP OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTE EDUCATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN WATER ACTION: $180 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTORCH LAKE PROTECTION ALLIANCE: $125 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOTTOMLESS TOY CHEST INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCU BOULDER HILLEL FOUNDATION: $56 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $43 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds CANCER WELLNESS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BASBLUE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds THRIVE SURVIVOR SUPPORT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds JARC ↗
  • Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds UNIFORM FUNDING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HEALTHY COMMUNITY ↗

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.

United Jewish Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Jerold and Ellen …A Alfred Taubman Foun…The Skillman Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
United Jewish FoundationMI17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Jewish Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Jerold and Ellen Minkin Family Foundation · A Alfred Taubman Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Burnstein Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burnstein Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    6report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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