· Private foundation
Daniel and Miriam Michael 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 $10k13 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YESHIVAT NOAM | $50,010 |
| TORAH ACADEMY OF BERGEN COUNTY | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT HESDER | $18,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH AARON | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF NEVE MICHAEL CHILDRENS VILLAG | $5,000 |
| PROJECT YECHI | $4,000 |
| CONGREGATION RINAT YISROEL | $2,556 |
| DONATIONS UNDER 1000 | $2,285 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| EMUNAH OF AMERICA | $1,800 |
| ROSENBAUM YESHIVA OF NORTH JERSEY | $1,080 |
| SHARSHERET | $1,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT | $1,000 |
| NECHAMA COMFORT | $1,000 |
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, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +6% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YSYESHIVAT SHALSHELET INC3× · 2022–2024 · $253k · revenue +420%
- TATORAH ACADEMY OF BERGEN COUNTY2× · 2024–2025 · $80k · revenue +32%
- PYPROJECT YECHI INC5× · 2021–2025 · $24k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- FOFRNDS OF NEVE CHILDREN VILLAGE 2085one grant, 2020 · $15k
- CBCONGREGATION BETH ABRAHAMone grant, 2021 · $11k
- LELEV ECHAD INCone grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue 0%
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.
To operate a school in the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith.
Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide educational and social improvement for the children of kiryat arba, israel.
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
Religious School
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide funds to needy individuals in the state of israel.
To cultivate students' intellectual, moral and creative capacities to the fullest by transmitting the necessary skills and methods that enable students to master all areas of torah scholarship.
Support of tzohar-a school for special needs children located in israel
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 54 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 YESHIVAT SHALSHELET INC ↗
- Who funds TORAH ACADEMY OF BERGEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT NOAM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER ↗
- Who funds PROJECT YECHI INC ↗
- Who funds LEV ECHAD INC ↗
- Who funds Tzohar Halev Inc ↗
- Who funds MEIRAS BAIS YAAKOV INC ↗
- Who funds The Frisch School ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Migdal OHR ↗
- Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA OF NORTH JERSEY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS OF COURAGE INC ↗
- Who funds EMUNAH OF AMERICA INC ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · Granit Foundation · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · Ma Tov Charitable Foundation Co Sam Vogel · The Arthur & Joyce Fein Family Foundation · M D Katz Foundation Inc · The Blumenfeld Family Foundation · The Eva & Mordy Rothberg Family Foundation Inc · Drharold Rosenbaum Memorial Foundation · Stern Family Foundation · Ruth R Greenberg Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Daniel and Miriam Michael Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Daniel and Miriam Michael Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Meiras Bais Yaakov Inc: 7% of income from government
- Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
- The Frisch School: 0% of income from government
- Torah Academy of Bergen County: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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