Michigan · Public charity
Jewish Federation of Detroit
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.
- $47M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 86
- Grants FY2025
- 74
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,701,190
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 74
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $47M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Jewish Federation of Detroit funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $625k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
ReligionInternationalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 78 | $37M | 24% |
| FY2024 | 74 | $33M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $41M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 57 | $33M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $34M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $24M | 10% |
| FY2019 | 45 | $30M | 33% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $30M | 16% |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Human Services$119MPhilanthropy$84MInternational$52MEducation$49MCivil Rights$23MReligion$22MRecreation & Sports$9.2MYouth Development$5.0MOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MD
AR
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Agency for Israel - North American Council | $46,246,892 | 9 | 37% |
| Jewish Family Service | $44,685,880 | 9 | 35% |
| Gesher Human Services | $31,689,183 | 9 | 32% |
| Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit | $27,853,423 | 9 | 35% |
| Yeshivath Beth Yehudah | $18,893,112 | 9 | n/a |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $14,495,346 | 6 | 1% |
| Hillel Day School of Metro Detroit | $14,214,006 | 9 | 11% |
| American Jewish Committee | $12,241,299 | 5 | 5% |
| Jsl Foundation | $9,290,833 | 9 | 39% |
| Fresh Air Society | $9,180,598 | 8 | 23% |
Show all 129 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Agency for Israel - North American Council | $46,246,892 | 9 | 37% |
| Jewish Family Service | $44,685,880 | 9 | 35% |
| Gesher Human Services | $31,689,183 | 9 | 32% |
| Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit | $27,853,423 | 9 | 35% |
| Yeshivath Beth Yehudah | $18,893,112 | 9 | n/a |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $14,495,346 | 6 | 1% |
| Hillel Day School of Metro Detroit | $14,214,006 | 9 | 11% |
| American Jewish Committee | $12,241,299 | 5 | 5% |
| Jsl Foundation | $9,290,833 | 9 | 39% |
| Fresh Air Society | $9,180,598 | 8 | 23% |
| Farber Hebrew Day School-Yeshival Akiva | $7,970,709 | 9 | n/a |
| Jean and Samuel Frankel Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit | $6,370,945 | 9 | 26% |
| Yeshivas Darchei Torah | $5,783,301 | 9 | n/a |
| The Jarc Foundation | $4,220,392 | 9 | 94% |
| Congregation B'Nai B'Rith Hillel | $3,501,249 | 9 | 27% |
| Friendship Circle | $3,107,638 | 9 | n/a |
| Jewish Community Relations Council of Metropolitan Detroit | $2,526,517 | 8 | 62% |
| Kadima | $2,334,128 | 7 | 12% |
| Michigan B'Nai B'Rith Hillel Foundation Inc | $2,147,273 | 9 | 15% |
| Hillel of Metropolitan Detroit | $1,967,315 | 9 | 32% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $1,874,545 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Security Inc | $1,821,596 | 2 | n/a |
| Hebrew Free Loan Association | $1,785,187 | 9 | 21% |
| Yeshiva Gedola of Detroit | $1,623,977 | 9 | n/a |
| Temple Israel of Detroit | $1,372,334 | 9 | n/a |
| B'Nai B'Rith Youth Organization | $1,300,856 | 9 | 1% |
| World Ort Inc | $978,860 | 6 | 92% |
| Temple Shir Shalom | $672,062 | 9 | n/a |
| Temple Beth El | $576,815 | 9 | n/a |
| Yad Ezra | $426,842 | 7 | 7% |
| Adat Shalom Synagogue | $403,311 | 8 | n/a |
| Temple Emanu-El | $353,504 | 6 | n/a |
| Wexner Foundation | $350,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $297,066 | 7 | 0% |
| V'Hechzakta Bo | $296,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Jewish Community Centers Association of North America | $287,951 | 7 | 0% |
| Congregation Shaarey Zedek | $265,716 | 6 | n/a |
| Lubavitch Foundation | $241,817 | 8 | n/a |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $232,176 | 1 | 0% |
| The Shul | $195,806 | 7 | n/a |
| Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies Inc | $195,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Congregation Shir Tikvah | $177,266 | 7 | n/a |
| Aish Hatorah | $173,035 | 8 | n/a |
| American Committee for Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem Inc | $160,000 | 2 | 0% |
| 70 Faces Media Inc | $141,500 | 7 | 0% |
| National Council of Jewish Women Michig | $133,261 | 4 | 4% |
| Oholei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch | $131,599 | 3 | 2% |
| Holocaust Memorial Center Inc | $122,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Congregation Beth Ahm | $114,773 | 7 | n/a |
| Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue | $113,031 | 5 | n/a |
| Chabad of North Hollywood | $104,245 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Hagal Sheli Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Larger Than Life USA Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 11% |
| American Friends of Hebrew University Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ort America Inc | $98,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Congregation Beth Chabad | $84,620 | 7 | n/a |
| Schusterman Initiatives Inc | $80,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Council of Young Israel | $80,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Repair the World | $77,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Temple Kol Ami | $76,262 | 7 | n/a |
| The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America | $69,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Chabad Jewish Center of Troy | $64,036 | 3 | n/a |
| Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County Inc | $63,666 | 3 | 0% |
| Elem Youth in Distress Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc | $59,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jewish Council for Public Affairs Inc | $53,292 | 3 | 1% |
| Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| United Way for Southeastern Michigan | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network | $50,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Detroit Institute of Arts | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Adamah Inc | $44,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Congregation T Chiyah | $44,100 | 3 | n/a |
| Nfx | $43,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United Israel Appeal Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Central Fund of Israel | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Detroit Chesed Project | $40,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Chabad of Bingham Farms | $37,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Brilliant Detroit | $36,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Kollel Institute of Gtr Detroit | $35,247 | 6 | n/a |
| Anti-Defamation League | $32,625 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $32,150 | 2 | 0% |
| Penn Hillel | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Birmingham Temple | $29,421 | 3 | n/a |
| The City Congregation for Humanistic Judaism | $26,409 | 3 | n/a |
| Tanielle Miller Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Kids Kicking Cancer Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Good People Fund Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Meet International Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| American Israel Education Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Conference on Soviet Jewry | $24,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Bethel Community Transformation Center | $20,467 | 2 | 2% |
| Merit Spread Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Inspired Perspective LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Detroit2nepal Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Kehillat Etz Chayim | $19,466 | 2 | n/a |
| Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America | $18,765 | 2 | n/a |
| Congregation Beth Chabad of Greater Downtown Detroit | $18,575 | 3 | n/a |
| Jgive-Friends of Asor Fund USA Inc | $17,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Faith Recovery Center Inc | $16,900 | 1 | 10% |
| Friends of Jcc Krakow Inc | $15,826 | 2 | 0% |
| Matan Inc | $13,951 | 1 | 3% |
| The Wurtman Foundation Inc | $13,162 | 1 | 3% |
| The Jewish Fund | $11,053 | 1 | 0% |
| Bnai Israel Synagogue of West Bloomfield | $10,889 | 2 | n/a |
| Union for Reform Judaism | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yechida | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Eton Academy | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alaska Jewish Campus | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Onetable Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Council of Young Israel | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Unit 669 Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Newcaje Inc | $9,750 | 1 | 7% |
| National Council of Young Israel | $9,194 | 1 | n/a |
| Detroit Jews for Justice | $9,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Michigan Israel Business Accelerator | $8,480 | 1 | 1% |
| Society for Humanistic Judaism | $8,225 | 1 | 2% |
| Detroit Jewish Library | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Beth Shalom | $7,490 | 1 | n/a |
| Keter Torah Synagogue | $7,011 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Bais Chabad of Farmington Hills | $6,398 | 1 | n/a |
| Jewish Fertility Foundation Inc | $6,200 | 1 | n/a |
| The Jewish Ensemble Theatre | $5,610 | 1 | 1% |
| Congregation B'Nai Moshe | $5,598 | 1 | n/a |
| Hatzalah of Michigan | $5,225 | 1 | 1% |
| Ahavas Olam Weingarden Torah Center | $5,177 | 1 | n/a |
| Guardians of Faith | $5,150 | 1 | n/a |
| Kehal Rina Utefilah | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Breakthrough T1d | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Tumor Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Jewish Federation of Detroit supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 77 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 77.
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.
United Jewish FoundationMI94.2× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: United Jewish Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation · Ahavas Avraham Foundation · The Bruce H and Rosalie N Rosen Family Foundation · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · The Jewish Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Shari & Alon Friendship Foundation Inc · Stanley and Judith Frankel Family Foundation · The Jerold and Ellen Minkin Family Foundation
How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
About Jewish Federation of Detroit
- How much does Jewish Federation of Detroit give?
- Jewish Federation of Detroit reported 86 grants totaling $47,479,255 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 74 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jewish Federation of Detroit fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Philanthropy (23%), International (14%).
- Who are Jewish Federation of Detroit's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Agency for Israel - North American Council ($46M), Jewish Family Service ($45M), Gesher Human Services ($32M).
- Does Jewish Federation of Detroit fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jewish Federation of Detroit?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Jewish Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Jewish Federation of Detroit based?
- Jewish Federation of Detroit is based in MI.
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