· Private foundation
Harold & Ruth Garber 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GARY BURNSTEIN COMM HEALTH CLINIC | $1,000 |
| WEST BLOOMFIELD LITERARY GARDEN | $1,000 |
| TAMARACK CAMPS | $1,000 |
| CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HEBREW FREE LOAN | $1,000 |
| ROCHESTER COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $1,000 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH | $1,000 |
| TRI COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY LAW CENTER | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $1,000 |
| PROJECT HEALTHY COMMUNITY | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN | $1,000 |
| MAX MCCOLL BRAIN INJURY | $500 |
| GARRETS SPACE | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NCNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG5× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +140%
- FHFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER5× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +11%
PROJECT HEALTHY COMMUNITY5× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +137%
Funded once
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%- WBWEST BLOOMFIELD HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $1k
- OOOFFICE OF UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $500
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALTHY COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harold & Ruth Garber Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harold & Ruth Garber Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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