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Fieldman 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.

$90k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$190kReligion$147kHealth$136kArts & Culture$54kEmployment$45kHuman Services$20kAnimals$12kCivil Rights$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION FOR HUMANISTIC JUDAISM$30,000
GESHER HUMAN SERVICES$25,000
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ROGEL CANCER$10,000
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS$5,000
LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND$2,500
DETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLS$2,000
IISHJ$2,000
UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGA$1,000
SOCIETY FOR HUMANISTIC JUDAISM$1,000
LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY$1,000
UNICEF$500
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 (FY21–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ZAKA SEARCH AND RESCUE: $2k → 20%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $3k → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $3k → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $2k → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $1k → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$599k · 22 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
5

Total granted

$599k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+106%

Still filing today

64%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
Human ServicesInternationalEducationArts & CultureAnimalsHealthOther
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

  • GH
    GESHER HUMAN SERVICES
    3× · 2022–2025 · $45k · revenue +54%
  • UO
    University of Michigan
    6× · 2019–2024 · $44k · revenue +140%
  • THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
    6× · 2019–2025 · $27k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN NEUROLOGY
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • IM
    Israel Magen Fund Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +106%
  • OXFAM-AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +5%
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
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
2
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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3
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
4
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
5
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
6
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
7
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
8
Business Leaders for Michigan

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.…

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9
United Jewish Foundation

The united jewish foundation of detroit owns, manages and invests jewish communal assets, including general and endowment funds, agency endowments, supporting foundations and real property. the foundation is committed to ensuring that…

Philanthropy
10
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
11
Michigan Farmers Market Association

Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.

Food & Nutrition
12
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit; the most unlike its peers is Gesher Human Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION FOR HUMANISTIC JUDAISM: $130,000 · OtherCONGREGATION FOR HUMANISTIC JUDAISMMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE O: $70,000 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OJVS: $67,000 · OtherJVSPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $54,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODUniversity of Michigan: $44,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · OtherIISHJ: $18,500 · Other+13 more: $51,500 · Other+13 moreTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $27,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DETRO…DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $27,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT S…GESHER HUMAN SERVICES: $45,000 · EmploymentLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $10,000 · Human ServicesIsrael Magen Fund Inc: $1,500 · Human ServicesHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $21,000 · HealthDETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $8,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · EducationDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $7,000 · AnimalsMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,500 · Animals
Other$455,000Arts & Culture$54,000Employment$45,000Human Services$21,500Health$21,000Education$14,000Animals$11,500

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 budgetGESHER HUMAN SERVICES: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $44,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $27,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $27,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $10,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetDETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $500 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 GESHER HUMAN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds Israel Magen Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY FOR HUMANISTIC JUDAISM ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Fieldman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fieldman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 31 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home