· Private foundation
Clarence & Jack Himmel Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAY DETROIT | $125,000 |
| HOLOCAUST CENTER | $12,000 |
| U OF M HILLEL | $10,000 |
| NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES | $5,000 |
| HILLEL OF METRO DETROIT | $5,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB | $4,500 |
| CABARET 313 | $2,500 |
| HILLEL OF MICHIGAN STATE | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HMHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC3× · 2020–2022 · $28k · revenue +53%
- DZDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY4× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +106%
VISTA MARIA4× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- IEISRAEL EMERGENCY FUNDone grant, 2023 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
- GHGESHER HUMAN SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +36%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.…
We honor life through donation.
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.…
The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…
Jewish historical society of michigan shares and celebrates the experiences and contributions of the jewish people, communities and institutions of michigan.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
Creating healthy communities - together
Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…
Inspire students to be active in jewish life.
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…
Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service and the most unlike its peers is Dr Gary Burnstein Community Health Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 46 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SAY DETROIT ↗
- Who funds KADIMA ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds CABARET 313 INC ↗
- Who funds GESHER HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY ↗
- Who funds FOCUSHOPE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THE RAINBOW CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds Eversight ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS LEAGUE OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds DR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · The Driker Family Foundation · The Jerold and Ellen Minkin Family Foundation · Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · The Ravitz Foundation · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · Children's Hospital of Michigan 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 Clarence & Jack Himmel Foundation 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.
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.
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