· Private foundation
Herbert & Betty Bloom 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE SHIR SHALOM | $5,390 |
| JEWISH WOMEN OF ATLANTA | $1,250 |
| JEWISH FEDRATION OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT | $1,250 |
| ST JOHNS EMERGECNCY RESIDENTS FUND | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN | $895 |
| ST JOHNS RESIDENCY FUND | $300 |
| JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION | $85 |
| BOYS TOWN | $25 |
| ST JUDE | $25 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +130% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTEMPLE SHIR SHALOM8× · 2018–2025 · $37k
- JFJEWISH FEDRATION OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT7× · 2019–2025 · $14k
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION2× · 2017–2018 · $12k
Funded once
- TKTEMPLE KOL AMIone grant, 2017 · $4k
- HDHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROITone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +17%
- SFSTARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INCone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +2%
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…
Inspire students to be active in jewish life.
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.
Jewish senior life of metropolitan detroit is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for older adults of the metropolitan detroit jewish community through the provision of personalized high quality programs and services that support…
Jewish historical society of michigan shares and celebrates the experiences and contributions of the jewish people, communities and institutions of michigan.
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating 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…
Where academic excellence and jewish values prepare children for a lifetime of success, leadership and engagement with the world.
The mission of the jewish community center of metropolitan detroit is to build a dynamic jewish community by collaborating to createworld-class education and engagement opportunities for the mind, body and soul throughout metro detroit.
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.
Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
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 25 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 NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG ↗
- Who funds HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JARC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF MICHIGAN BERNESE MOUNTAIN DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
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 Sherman Family Foundation · Grosfeld Foundation · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · 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 Herbert & Betty Bloom Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herbert & Betty Bloom Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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