· Private foundation
Jonathan and Beth Lowe Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF METRO DETROIT | $7,500 |
| UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION OF METRO DETROIT | $6,500 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $1,018 |
| JARC | $500 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $500 |
| STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES | $500 |
| JEWISH HOSPICE AND CHAPLAINCY NETWORK | $360 |
| Individual grant recipient | $360 |
| YAD EZRA | $350 |
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST | $350 |
| FRIENDS OF ELNET | $300 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| HILLEL CAMPUS ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN | $250 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METRO DETROIT | $250 |
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 (FY17–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 12% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE7× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +168%
- SFSTARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1k · revenue +11%
- UOUniversity of Michigan2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +202%
Funded once
- JAJEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROITone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +16%
- HMHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +74%
- CPCHILDREN PSC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $400
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.
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…
The united jewish foundation of detroit owns, manages and invests jewish communal assets, including general and endowment funds, agency endowments, supporting foundations and real property. the foundation is committed to ensuring that…
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.
Jewish historical society of michigan shares and celebrates the experiences and contributions of the jewish people, communities and institutions of michigan.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Inspire students to be active in jewish life.
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
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…
How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 87 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC DETROIT ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
- Who funds STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
- Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
- Who funds CURE MULTIPLE MYELOMA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds JARC ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 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: The Irving and Ethel Palman Foundation · Woll-Yellin Family Foundation · Pappas Foundation Inc · The Ravitz Foundation · Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation · The Bruce H and Rosalie N Rosen Family Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · The Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Foundation · Shari & Alon Friendship Foundation Inc · George M and Jo Elyn Nyman Charitable Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jonathan and Beth Lowe Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jonathan and Beth Lowe Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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