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Grosfeld 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.

$5.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$1.7M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Philanthropy$6.0MReligion$4.6MHealth$2.5MInternational$2.2MEducation$2.1MAnimals$843kArts & Culture$310kYouth Development$177kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $255k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $512k
  • $250k+5 grants · $4.6M
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$1,659,353
JEWISH FEDERATION OF METRO DETROIT$1,398,095
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE$650,000
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$600,000
JEWISH HOSPICE AND CHAPLAINCY NETWORK$250,000
MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$200,000
RIM FOUNDATION$111,666
TRINITY HEALTH OAKLAND$100,000
JOHNS HOPKINS$100,000
HCAT (HAMTRAMCK CAT ASSISTANCE TEAM)$40,000
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS$25,000
BRILLIANT DETROIT$25,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$25,000
COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES$20,000
YESHIVA DARCHEI TORAH$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5k → 21%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METRO DETROIT: $70k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METRO DETROIT: $50k → 8%ORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $350 → 8%JARC: $10k → 8%JARC: $10k → 8%JARC: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
MI
NY
MA
CA
VA
MD
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 64 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

64 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
53

Total granted

$11M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+8%

Still filing today

72%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsInternationalArts & CultureHealthEducationReligionOther

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

  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +4%
  • JH
    JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK
    4× · 2020–2024 · $417k · revenue +14%
  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $400k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • BH
    BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $406k · revenue -22%
  • AI
    AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $105k · revenue -1%
  • WL
    WALNUT LAKE PRESCHOOL & DEV
    one grant, 2022 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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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
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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4
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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5
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

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.

Philanthropy
6
Jfa Non-Profit Housing Corporation

We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.

Housing & Shelter
7
Jsl Foundation

We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.

Human Services
8
Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor

The federation provides and inspires philanthropic leadership and community-building to nurture a strong, engaged, connected, vibrant, and enduring jewish community locally, in israel, and around the world.

Philanthropy
9
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
10
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
11
Fresh Air Society

Tamarack camps, established by the fresh air society, builds a vibrant community by providing enriching jewish camping experiences for children and families, respectful of financial ability.

Recreation & Sports
12
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit and the most unlike its peers is Aish Hatorah Detroit. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Community FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Animal Rescue and ShelterCancer Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-12 SchoolsChristian Youth CampsLocal Food System Organizat…Food Banks and PantriesUnited Way AffiliatesEquine Therapy ProgramsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Environmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr13%6%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr15%23%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr18%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr15%6%20–35yr14%10%35–55yr18%75%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/82
the rest of the field
12%
6,511/53,774

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.

04the grantee network

75 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. 75 of the 132 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/75
Grantees still filing
53/75
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YESHIVATH BETH YEHUDAH — $3,678,132 · OtherYESHIVATH BETH YEHUDAHIndividual grant recipient — $1,659,353 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTEMPLE ISRAEL OF DETROIT — $610,100 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAEL OF DETROITMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY — $600,000 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYFARBER HEBREW DAY SCHOOL-YESHIVAL AKIVA — $595,000 · OtherFARBER HEBREW DAY SCHOOL-YESHIVAL AKIVATHE RIM FOUNDATION — $544,998 · OtherTHE RIM FOUNDATION+81 more — $1,935,409 · Other+81 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT — $5,330,258 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT+3 more — $60,915 · PhilanthropyThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $1,815,000 · InternationalThe America…AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $105,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $75,000 · International+4 more — $95,265 · InternationalMICHIGAN PSYCHOANALYTIC FOUNDATION INC — $800,000 · HealthMICHIGAN …BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION — $406,000 · HealthBEAUMONT …MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $400,000 · HealthMOUNT SIN…NFX — $110,000 · HealthNFX+2 more — $17,000 · HealthMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $340,000 · AnimalsHAMTRAMCK CAT ASSISTANCE TEAM H-CAT — $158,000 · AnimalsA REJOYCEFUL ANIMAL RESCUE — $83,561 · AnimalsADOPT-A-PET INC — $35,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $30,000 · Animals+12 more — $116,500 · AnimalsTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $400,000 · EducationCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES — $90,000 · EducationHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT — $50,000 · EducationCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY — $48,500 · Education+3 more — $25,000 · EducationJEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK — $417,250 · ReligionCONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL — $75,000 · Religion+2 more — $6,000 · Religion
Other$9,622,992Philanthropy$5,391,173International$2,090,265Health$1,733,000Animals$763,061Education$613,500Religion$498,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT — $5,330,258 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $1,815,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMICHIGAN PSYCHOANALYTIC FOUNDATION INC — $800,000 over 3y, 51% of budgetJEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK — $417,250 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION — $406,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $400,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $340,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHAMTRAMCK CAT ASSISTANCE TEAM H-CAT — $158,000 over 4y, 41% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT — $120,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNFX — $110,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $105,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES — $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC — $86,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetA REJOYCEFUL ANIMAL RESCUE — $83,561 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetCONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL — $75,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT — $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $73,938 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $69,375 over 3y, 10% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $49,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY — $48,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $35,265 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC — $35,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetGLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC — $35,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetADOPT-A-PET INC — $35,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetJARC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetORT AMERICA INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetL C RESCUE — $25,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetPalm Beach Island Cats Inc — $21,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN — $20,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetGESHER HUMAN SERVICES — $15,764 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN PARKINSON FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPARADISE ANIMAL RESCUE — $11,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetCenter for Educational Innovation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSasha Farm Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFRIENDS FOR ANIMALS OF METRO DETROIT — $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Harold and Penny B Bl…The Eugene Applebaum …United Jewish Foundat…Community Foundation …The Bruce H and Rosal…Alan Jay and Sue Kauf…The Ravitz FoundationEdward C and Linda Dr…Shari & Alon Friendsh…The Irving and Ethel …The Andrea and Lawren…Marjorie and Maxwell …
Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation CorporationMI41.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Bruce H and Rosalie N Rosen Family Foundation · Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation · The Ravitz Foundation · Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation · Shari & Alon Friendship Foundation Inc · The Irving and Ethel Palman Foundation · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey 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 Grosfeld 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    12report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Grosfeld Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Grosfeld Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 132 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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