· Public charity
Jewish Federation of Detroit
The JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT is the cornerstone of our jewish community.
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 $10k17 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $709k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+19 grants · $44M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION OF DETROIT | $7,701,190 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $6,246,455 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL | $4,899,566 |
| GESHER HUMAN SERVICES | $4,551,064 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE | $3,926,424 |
| FRESH AIR SOCIETY | $3,069,900 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $3,007,348 |
| YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH | $2,070,941 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA | $1,273,975 |
| FARBER HEBREW DAY SCHOOL - YESHIVAT AKIVA | $1,261,104 |
| JEWISH SENIOR LIFE OF METRO DETROIT | $1,210,666 |
| HILLEL DAY SCHOOL | $1,161,675 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND | $985,000 |
| YESHIVAS DARCHEI TORAH | $694,746 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - HILLEL | $527,080 |
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 (FY17–25, $86.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Jewish Federation of Detroit’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +38% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
75 repeat relationships: 59 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 19 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $523k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JAJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL9× · 2017–2025 · $46M · revenue +147% · 37% of their budget
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE9× · 2017–2025 · $45M · revenue +168% · 35% of their budget
- GHGESHER HUMAN SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $32M · revenue +54% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- WFWEXNER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $350k · revenue +13%
- VBV'HECHZAKTA BOone grant, 2021 · $296k · revenue -21%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $232k · revenue +39%
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.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
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Friends of Jerusalem's mission is to provide assistance to the needs and indigent living in Jerusalem and all of Israel.
Spreading the gospel of the Messiah, Yeshua, especially to Jewish audiences, by the use of books, television, and other media.
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
To support a strong and secure israel and to carry out public information activities on the middle east peace issues in the united states.
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Religious School
To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
How this is measured
92 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. 92 of the 137 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 JEWISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds GESHER HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds JSL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
- Who funds THE JARC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
- Who funds KADIMA ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD ORT INC ↗
- Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
- Who funds WEXNER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds V'HECHZAKTA BO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jewish Federation of Detroit funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Federation of Detroit. Bigger dots raise more.
- Adamah Inc: 10% of income from government
How this is measured
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