· Private foundation
Henry S & Mala Dorfman 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $336k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $74k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT | $74,490 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT | $41,042 |
| OAKDALE ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| CAROLYN DORFMAN DANCE CO | $25,000 |
| CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF TROY | $25,000 |
| TANI FUND (PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS) | $20,000 |
| JEWISH HOSPICE AND CHAPLAINCY | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LONE SOLDIERS | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF IDF WIDOWS & ORPHANS | $20,000 |
| CONGREGATION MISHKAN ISRAEL | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| FIRST LINE MEDICAL (HUMANITARIAN PARTNERSHIP FOR ISRAEL) | $20,000 |
| HOSTAGES & MISSING FAMILIES (MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION) | $20,000 |
| ENCORE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $15,000 |
| CAROLYN DORFMAN DANCE CO | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 11 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $276k 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
CAROLYN DORFMAN DANCE COMPANY7× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +1%- EPENCORE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER3× · 2023–2025 · $95k · revenue -9% · 29% of their budget
- OAOAKDALE ACADEMY2× · 2024–2025 · $40k
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2024 · $50k
- UFUNITED FRIENDS OF HATZALAHone grant, 2024 · $36k
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN DETROITone grant, 2023 · $32k
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 mission of Iowa Hillel is to enhance the lives of Jewish students at the University of Iowa, so they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. Iowa Hillel envisions a world for our students where they find a community here at Iowa…
The mission of the organization is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
Hillel at Miami University, the center of Jewish life on campus, seeks to engage, connect, and empower students to explore their Jewish identity creating a vibrant Jewish community and inspiring the next generation of Jewish leaders.
Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…
The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holocaust Memorial Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Urban Farming. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 40 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 CAROLYN DORFMAN DANCE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ENCORE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Israeli Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LONE SOLDIER INC ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN FARMING ↗
- Who funds International Rett Syndrome Foundation ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Henry S & Mala Dorfman 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company — 11% 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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