· Private foundation
Clarence & Jack Himmel Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $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 |
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 (FY20–22, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 46 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 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 THE ARTS LEAGUE OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Eversight ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE RAINBOW CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds DR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Clarence & Jack Himmel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clarence & Jack Himmel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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