· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FIRST LINE MEDICAL (HUMANITARIAN PARTNERSHIP FOR ISRAEL) | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| CONGREGATION MISHKAN ISRAEL | $20,000 |
| TANI FUND (PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS) | $20,000 |
| HOSTAGES & MISSING FAMILIES (MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION) | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF IDF WIDOWS & ORPHANS | $20,000 |
| JEWISH HOSPICE AND CHAPLAINCY | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LONE SOLDIERS | $20,000 |
| ENCORE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $15,000 |
| ENCORE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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 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…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 40 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 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 STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Henry S & Mala Dorfman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry S & Mala Dorfman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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