· Private foundation
George M and Jo Elyn Nyman Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of GEORGE M AND JO ELYN NYMAN CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $109k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $150,000 |
| JEWISH FED OF METRO DETROIT | $42,000 |
| DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ART | $27,150 |
| DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| ACLU FUND OF MICHIGAN | $15,000 |
| HEBREW FREE LOAN | $10,000 |
| ORCHARDS CHILDRENS SERVICES | $5,000 |
| DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| MICHIGAN RADIO 909 WRCJ | $5,000 |
| MICHIGAN OPERA THEATER | $5,000 |
| DETROIT PUBLIC TELEVISION | $5,000 |
| HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER (ZEKELMAN) | $5,000 |
| GERSHER HUMAN SERVICES | $2,500 |
| THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $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 (FY18–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% 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 +43% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 8 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- UOUniversity of Michigan3× · 2019–2024 · $301k · revenue +140% · 45% of their budget
THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS7× · 2018–2024 · $194k · revenue +34%- HFHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION5× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- TITEMPLE ISRAEL OF DETROITone grant, 2019 · $50k
- UCURBAN COMMUNICATIONS GROUPone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -23%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
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.
Inspire students to be active in jewish life.
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.
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…
Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors
The organization is known as the leader in the movement and is seen as the "go to" experts on environmental justice and sustainable redevelopment because of its knowledge and its network.
The jewish federation of detroit is the cornerstone of our jewish community. we are committed to taking care of the needs of the jewish people and building a strong and vibrant jewish future, in detroit, in israel and around the world.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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 44 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.
37 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. 37 of the 74 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 University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALTHY COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNICATIONS GROUP ↗
- Who funds DETROIT CRIME COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT OPERA ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC ↗
- Who funds ORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GESHER HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries ↗
- Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
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 · Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · The Samuel & Jean Frankel Health and Research Foundation · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · The Ravitz Foundation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Robt & Gail Katz Family 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 George M and Jo Elyn Nyman Charitable Trust 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.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
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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