· Private foundation
J S & S Michaan 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k8 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $430k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $925k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| World Central Kitchen | $100,000 |
| Doctors w/o Borders | $100,000 |
| Agains Malaria Foundation | $100,000 |
| ANERA | $75,000 |
| Oxfam | $75,000 |
| UNHCR | $75,000 |
| Feeding Palm Beach County | $50,000 |
| National Network of Abortion Funds.org | $50,000 |
| Heart to Heart International - Aide for Ukraine | $50,000 |
| Surf Rider Foundation | $50,000 |
| Waterkeeper Alliance | $50,000 |
| New Incentives | $50,000 |
| The End Fund | $50,000 |
| Innocence Project | $50,000 |
| Sightsavers | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2022, 38 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
OXFAM-AMERICA INC2× · 2020–2021 · $125k · revenue +16%- HKHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +47%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- TEThe End Fund Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +79%
AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AIDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +57%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
Mercy for animals' mission is to construct a compassionate food system that is not just kind to animals but essential for the future of our planet and all who share it. our vision of a world where animals are respected, protected, and free…
Accelerate equitable access to eyeglasses for one billion people. eyelliance advances four mutually reinforcing global and national strategies, gov delivery, sustainable financing, institutional advocacy, and catalytic partnerships.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
How this is measured
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 113 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 United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC ↗
- Who funds WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds The End Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds SIGHTSAVERS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NEW INCENTIVES ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Michelle McGann Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Newman's Own Foundation · Give Lively Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization J S & S Michaan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J S & S Michaan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
- Jupiter Medical Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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