How much does Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor give?

Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor reported 22 itemized grants totaling $1,655,423, out of $1,849,589 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), Education (15%), Recreation & Sports (15%).

Who are Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jewish Community Center Of ($2.4M), Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County Inc ($2.0M), Friends of the Lakelands Trail ($1.1M).

Does Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation, United Way of Washtenaw County.

Where is Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor based?

Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor is based in MI.

Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor

Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor

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.

$1.8M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$506k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$4.4MEducation$1.8MRecreation & Sports$1.8MReligion$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.1MHealth$604kArts & Culture$387kInternational$203kOther$0

02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 22 grants below total $1,655,423, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,849,589 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $194,166 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $33k
$10k–50k12 grants · $252k
$50k–250k2 grants · $266k
$250k+3 grants · $1.1M

$20,540

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA	$506,060
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER	$314,898
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES	$283,838
HEBREW DAY SCHOOL OF ANN ARBOR	$204,357
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HILLEL	$61,760
THE ST LOUIS CENTER	$33,334
BETH ISREAL CONGREGATION	$31,939
TEMPLE BETH EMETH	$29,547
CHABAD STUDENT ASSOC LUBAVITCH	$25,000
JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMER	$24,000
GOOD PEOPLE FUND	$20,540
YANKEE AIR FORCE INCORPORATED	$20,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANAT	$20,000
CHABAD HOUSE	$14,220
JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE	$12,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$10M · 34 repeat orgs$614k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$10M

$591k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

+1%

Still filing today

71%

94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

JF
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHTENAW COUNTY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +496%
FO
FRIENDS OF THE LAKELANDS TRAIL
4× · 2017–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +16%
HD
Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor
8× · 2017–2024 · $985k · revenue +105%

Funded once

KC
KALAMAZOO COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue -43% · 33% of their budget
YA
YANKEE AIR MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -98%
HL
HOMESCHOOL LEARNING CENTER INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue +279%

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.

04Its field

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 Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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The Jewish Fund

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…

Philanthropy

Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy

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.

Philanthropy

Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy

Flint Jewish Federation

To further the welfare of the jewish community

Philanthropy

Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor

Philanthropy

Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines

The mission of the jewish federation of greater des moines is to further the continuity and welfare of the des moines, ames, and other central iowa jewish communities, and to enable these jewish communities to maximize their resources by…

Philanthropy

Youngstown Area Jewish Federation

The mission of the youngstown area jewish federation is to sustain and enrich the quality of life for the jewish people regionally, in israel and worldwide. we are guided by the values of tzedkah (righteousness), klal yisrael (the…

Philanthropy

Jewish Federation of Madison Inc

To inspire, build, and sustain vibrant jewish life by fostering diverse opportunities to connect at every age and mobilizing our community in common purpose, in madison, israel, and around the world.

Religion

American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International

Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Lakelands Trail. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 58 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/45

Grantees still filing

28/45

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$8,058,756Philanthropy$1,186,168Environment$1,100,544Education$649,253Arts & Culture$562,000Recreation & Sports$278,000Health$220,750

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.

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.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI25.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · United Way of Washtenaw County · Jewish Federation of Detroit · United Jewish Foundation · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · The Bruce H and Rosalie N Rosen Family Foundation · THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION (Of R & P Heydon) · WK Kellogg Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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