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Harold & Ruth Garber Family 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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRI COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE | $1,000 |
| HEBREW FREE LOAN | $1,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $1,000 |
| GARY BURNSTEIN COMM HEALTH CLINIC | $1,000 |
| WEST BLOOMFIELD LITERARY GARDEN | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN | $1,000 |
| DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $1,000 |
| DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ROCHESTER COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $1,000 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| BIRMINGHAM BLOOMFIELD ART CENTER | $1,000 |
| PROJECT HEALTHY COMMUNITY | $1,000 |
| GARRETS SPACE | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of your 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.
16 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- NCNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +140%
THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +14%
PROJECT HEALTHY COMMUNITY4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +137%
Funded once
- WBWEST BLOOMFIELD HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $1k
- OOOFFICE OF UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $500
- BABB ART CENTERone grant, 2020 · $500
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 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…
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.
The detroit creativity project ("dcp") seeks to empower and inspire detroit's young people through improvisation, an art form that helps people build confidence and develop a creative and collaborative approach to their lives.
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.
Inspire students to be active in jewish life.
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…
Henry ford health macomb hospital (hfmh) is an affiliate of henry ford health system dba henry ford health ("hf health") serving the northeastern metropolitan detroit michigan communities. as an integrated component of one of the nation's…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the most unlike its peers is Birmingham Bloomfield Art Ctr Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 22 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 NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALTHY COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Bloomfield Art Ctr Inc ↗
- Who funds GARRETT'S SPACE ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
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: The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Harold & Ruth Garber Family 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.
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