· Private foundation
Edward I Fleischman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
70% of Edward I Fleischman Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Metropolitan Detroit, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF DET | $99,984 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,000 |
| ISRAEL GUIDE DOG FOR BLIND | $6,000 |
| HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| AM SHALOM | $2,500 |
| JSL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $1,500 |
| REAUMOND FOUNDATION | $1,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ALLIANCE HILLEL | $1,000 |
| U OF M HILLEL | $1,000 |
| MSU HILLEL | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +40% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- FHFRIENDSHIP HOUSE3× · 2020–2022 · $5k · revenue +513%
- CBCONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +40%
- GHGESHER HUMAN SERVICES2× · 2022–2023 · $4k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- HFHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +26%
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST CLAIR Cone grant, 2020 · $4k
- CCCHROHM'S & COLITIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating 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…
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
Jewish senior life of metropolitan detroit is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for older adults of the metropolitan detroit jewish community through the provision of personalized high quality programs and services that support…
Jewish senior life of metropolitan detroit is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for older adults of the metropolitan detroit jewish community through the provision of personalized high quality programs and services that support…
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…
To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.
To improve the health, well being, and quality of life of our jewish community's elderly, as well as that of our general community, being mindful of the values implicit in our jewish heritage.
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.
To help individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency and emotional stability.
To provide administrative support to jgs lifecare corporation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit and the most unlike its peers is Friendship House. 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 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 12% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 35 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds JSL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JARC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GESHER HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds Share our Spare ↗
- Who funds SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ROBERT A REAUMOND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP HASC INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY SENIOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PROMEDICA FOUNDATION ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Edward I Fleischman 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.