Michigan · Private foundation
Jacob Family Foundation Corporation
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.
- $254k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
54% of Jacob Family Foundation Corporation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Metropolitan Detroit, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $136,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 7
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Jacob Family Foundation Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 82% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $118k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $123k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $28k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $40k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $38k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $31k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $200,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Franklin-Bingham Farms Police Benevolent Fund | $15,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Gesher Human Services | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Midnight Golf Program | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Kadima | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Starfish Family Services Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($131k), not named here.
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: Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Jacob Family Foundation Corporation with peer funders
About Jacob Family Foundation Corporation
- How much does Jacob Family Foundation Corporation give?
- Jacob Family Foundation Corporation reported 4 grants totaling $253,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Jacob Family Foundation Corporation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (59%), Health (22%), Education (12%).
- Who are Jacob Family Foundation Corporation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Regents of the University of Michigan ($200k), Franklin-Bingham Farms Police Benevolent Fund ($15k), Gesher Human Services ($15k).
- Does Jacob Family Foundation Corporation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jacob Family Foundation Corporation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jacob Family Foundation Corporation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Jacob Family Foundation Corporation based?
- Jacob Family Foundation Corporation is based in MI.
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